What is the labor in vain effect?

a. when people spend time trying to learn information that is beyond their current level of knowledge
b. trying to teach someone who is not motivated to learn
c. working hard to get someone to understand what you are saying only to find out that he or she had the wrong idea all along
d. Teaching someone something, only to have him or her forget it soon after


Answer: a

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