In 1990, Elizabeth Newton, a psychologist, studied a simple game in which she assigned people to one of two roles ― ‘tappers’ or ‘listeners.’ Tappers received a list of well known songs such as ‘Happy Birthday to You.’ Each tapper was asked to pick a song and tap out the rhythm to a listener. The listener’s job was to guess the song, based on the rhythm being tapped. Before the listeners guessed the song, the tappers predicted the listeners would guess 50 percent of the songs correctly. But the result was that listeners guessed only 2.5 percent of the songs. Why? When a tapper tapped, she was hearing the song in her head. Meanwhile, the listeners couldn’t hear the tune ― all they could hear was a bunch of disconnected taps, like a kind of bizarre Morse Code. That is, the tappers couldn’t understand the position of the listeners who didn’t know the song title.
The listeners’ guessing was much less (A)_______ than the tappers expected, which means the tappers couldn’t imagine what it was like to (B)________ knowledge of the song title.
In 1990, Elizabeth Newton, a psychologist, studied a simple game in which she assigned people to one of two roles ― ‘tappers’ or ‘listeners.’ Tappers received a list of well known songs such as ‘Happy Birthday to You.’ Each tapper was asked to pick a song and tap out the rhythm to a listener. The listener’s job was to guess the song, based on the rhythm being tapped. Before the listeners guessed the song, the tappers predicted the listeners would guess 50 percent of the songs correctly. But the result was that listeners guessed only 2.5 percent of the songs. Why? When a tapper tapped, she was hearing the song in her head. Meanwhile, the listeners couldn’t hear the tune ― all they could hear was a bunch of disconnected taps, like a kind of bizarre Morse Code. That is, the tappers couldn’t understand the position of the listeners who didn’t know the song title.
The listeners’ guessing was much less (A)_______ than the tappers expected, which means the tappers couldn’t imagine what it was like to (B)________ knowledge of the song title.