Olivia wakes up from her nap and upon opening her eyes, she sees her mother smiling at her. What she sees right after opening her eyes is held in sensory memory. According to the information processing system, what happens next?
A. The scene of her mother smiling moves to Olivia's working memory and she encodes it into a happy feeling.
B. Olivia immediately moves the memory of her mother's face into long-term memory, which allows her to identify her mother.
C. The scene of her mother startles Olivia as it is an unexpected occurrence and she cries.
D. Olivia experiences a burst of synaptic connections related to her mother's face.
Answer: A
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a. from the head down and from the extremities inward b. from the feet up and from the center out c. from the feet up and from the extremities inward d. from the head down and from the center outward
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a. Educated people have more neural connections than less-educated people. b. Only children with high IQ scores enjoy and flourish in schools. c. Success in school involves more practical and creative intelligence. d. The duration of schooling is unrelated to IQ scores.
Individual differences in children's grammatical development show that:
A. children who adopt a holistic style in which they focus on the overall tune of a sentence tend to acquire their grammar much later than children who adopt an analytic style in which they focus on the smallest pieces of the sentence. B. children who adopt an analytic style are extremely frequent, while children who adopt a holistic style are quite common. C. children are equally successful at learning a grammar regardless of whether they adopt a holistic or analytic style. D. there are no individual differences in children's grammatical development.