Explain why children get better at processing information the older they get.
What will be an ideal response?
Steady increases in working memory and executive function continue throughout childhood and are responsible for the cognitive changes seen during childhood. Advanced executive function capacities enable older children to control their attention and deploy it selectively, focusing on the relevant information and ignoring other information, compared with younger children, who are easily distracted and fidget. Children not only get better at attending to and manipulating information, but they get better at storing it in long-term memory, organizing it in more sophisticated ways and encoding and retrieving it more efficiently and with less effort.
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A. Stage 1 B. Stage 3 C. Stage 4 D. REM
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