Posner and colleagues (2014) have proposed that two attention systems in the brain – the ___ and the executive system – are important in the development of executive function

a. orienting system
b. limbic system
c. parasympathetic system
d. competing system


Answer: A

Psychology

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For Freud, thoughts and feelings that are well below the surface of awareness and cannot normally be recalled are in the ______ mind

a) unconscious b) preconscious c) collective unconscious d) conscious

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a. too difficult. b. somewhat difficult. c. somewhat easy. d. too easy.

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Which of the following theorists proposed that children learn not through their individual interactions with the environment but through social process of guided by participation?

a. Jean Piaget b. Carl Rogers c. Sigmund Freud d. Lev Vygotsky

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