According to the research on divided-attention tasks, when people divide their attention between two stimuli,

a. they usually perform very accurately.
b. they report that their performance accuracy suffers, but in reality, they simply perform the tasks more slowly.
c. they typically make more errors.
d. their performance shifts from serial processing to parallel processing.


Ans: c

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