Rosen & Engle examined high- and low-span people performing an animal name generation task.Which did they demonstrate?
A)High-span people performed the same as the low-span people (even at the one minute mark).
B)In a dual-task condition,the high-span people performed better than the low-span people.
C)High-span people showed more proactive interference in the task than the low-span people.
D)It is hypothesized that the high-span people's performance under standard conditions reflects both "normal" retrieval as well as an additional process of guided strategic retrieval.

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Rosen & Engle found that high-span people's performance under standard conditions reflected not only "normal" retrieval, but also an additional process of guided strategic retrieval, which allowed them to maintain access to the current goal while suppressing irrelevant information. The other choices are incorrect as the study did not find that high-span people performed the same as low-span people, nor did it find that high-span people showed more proactive interference in the task. While the study did examine a dual-task condition, it found that high-span people did not perform better than low-span people in this condition.

Rosen & Engle Examined High- and Low-Span People Performing an Animal