Disputed Question- AOS 1-States of Consciousness

[spooks24]

We have this question come up in class today, and the answeris a), however, many students argued that it was d) or c). The textbook said it was a). I was just wanting to know, do you think a) is the right answer and why, or why another answer might be right +why

8. Tia is taking her first driving lesson in manual car. Which of the following is NOT likely to be true?
a) Tia finds it difficult to judge the passage of time (CORRECT ANSWER)

b) Tia finds it difficult to hold a sensible conversation with the instructor

c) At the end of the lesson, Tia finds it difficult to remeber the features of the buildings they have passed

d) At the end of the lesson, Tia can recall all the features of the route they have taken

TIA

[Spxtcs]

We have this question come up in class today, and the answeris a), however, many students argued that it was d) or c). The textbook said it was a). I was just wanting to know, do you think a) is the right answer and why, or why another answer might be right +why

8. Tia is taking her first driving lesson in manual car. Which of the following is NOT likely to be true?
a) Tia finds it difficult to judge the passage of time (CORRECT ANSWER)

b) Tia finds it difficult to hold a sensible conversation with the instructor

c) At the end of the lesson, Tia finds it difficult to remeber the features of the buildings they have passed

d) At the end of the lesson, Tia can recall all the features of the route they have taken

TIA

Well since its her first lesson in a manual car, she is likely to be concentrating a lot on shifting gears properly and avoiding stalling the car. As a result, she won't be concentrating on other things like details of buildings or conversations because she is engaging in a controlled process of driving a manual car - this requires high levels of conscious awareness, attention and mental effort and the other activities require their own level of high concentration.
Tia is able to judge time because she is NOT in an altered state of consciousness (e.g. Daydreaming or alcohol induced state).

Always remember, learning something new is a controlled process that requires lots of conscious awareness and cannot be done using divided attention, hence why Tia can't keep a conversation or remember details of the buildings. Remembering the route is a very important part of driving because she will need to do this every time she drives alone, so this is why she can recall the features of the route taken.

[The Brightest Witch]

Psych questions can be so annoyingly wordy, and this is one of those.

We can eliminate B right away - driving would require focused selective attention, so she's not going to be having a casual conversation. So B is true.

C and D confused me at first, because of the subtle difference in buildings and route. But yeah, she WOULD find it difficult to remember the building features, since that's not what she'll be looking at while she's focusing on driving. But she WOULD be able to recall the ROUTE, because she'd be thinking about the directions she's going in while she's driving, it's a huge part of the task.

Which means C and D are both true (with their annoying phrasing), and A is the only one that isn't. She's not in an ASC, so she shouldn't have a problem with judging time

(When I'm driving, I lose track of time entirely, but that may be more about me being a terrible time judger in general, and has no relevance to this. Still, just shows how easy it is to get a question wrong based on being you. I once got a question wrong because I thought decaffeinated coffee just had less caffeine, but my teacher wrote the question as if it had none at all, which meant the IV she has was different to mine)