Playing speed-and-action video games fosters
A) spatial skills in boys, but not in girls.
B) selective attention in boys and girls alike.
C) greater selective attention in girls, but not in boys.
D) greater school performance for boys and girls alike.
B
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Jeanette has a rather large group of peers, both boys and girls, with whom she shares some common interests. This group is known in the school as the "musicals," and they all participate in choir, band, or orchestra. They frequently get together to play music, discuss performances, or just hang out. In this example, the "musicals" are a ____
a. crowd b. clique c. gang d. mash-up
Models designed to explain mental functioning are constantly refined and modified to explain new experimental results. Using the research from this chapter, discuss this idea by describing an "old" theory, the "new or revised" theory, and the data that brought about the refinements to models of memory.
What will be an ideal response?
Why is arthritis classified as a chronic disease?
A. because individuals have it for an extended period of time B. because it can only be managed, not cured C. because many people are diagnosed with the disease D. because it causes chronic stress in individuals
According to ecologists, most direct influences on an infant will come from and be experienced in the
a. macrosystem. b. chronosystem. c. exosystem. d. microsystem.