Nancy participated in a study in which she was asked to listen to two streams of information played over headphones.One stream was played to her left ear and one stream was played to her right ear.She was asked to repeat aloud the information that she heard in her right ear.She participated in:
A)an ADHD task
B)a hearing test
C)a consciousness monitoring paradigm
D)a dichotic listening task

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Nancy participated in a dichotic listening task, which is a type of auditory perception test that involves presenting different auditory stimuli to each ear simultaneously. The participant is usually asked to attend to one ear and ignore the other, and this allows researchers to study how attention affects auditory processing. In this case, Nancy was asked to repeat the information she heard in her right ear, which is a common task in dichotic listening experiments.

Nancy Participated in a Study in Which She Was Asked