What is the experimental design of the Brown-Peterson task design?
a) This is a test where participants are given two set of information to remember followed by a distractor task and then asked to recall the information.
b) This is a test consisting of a series of plates with ten dots on it, one of which is coloured and moves from plate to plate over successive trials and participants must predict where the dot will be next.
c) This is a dual-task paradigm in which the primary task involves listening and the irrelevant task involves speaking.
d) This is a two-part test in which individuals are given a sentence with the last word missing. In the first part of the test, individuals are asked to provide a work that would finish the sentence in a meaningful way and in the second part of the test, individuals are required to finish the sentence with a word that makes no sense.
e) This is a task done to measure retroactive interference where the participants are taught two skills consecutively and then tested to see if they remember the skill learned second is remembered better than the first.
Answer: A
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