Attention skills of adolescents are advanced relative to those of children. This advantage appears to be due, in part, to _____ commonly found in adolescents
a. improvements in visual acuity
b. increased distractibility
c. myelination of brain cells
d. androgens released by the ovaries/testes
c
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Teachings from the Anishinaabe implicate that there are seven values, each represented by different ______.
a. gods b. weather patterns c. ancient ancestors d. animals
Explicit and implicit memories seem to involve ________
a. the same neural structures but different neural pathways b. the same neural pathways, but different neural structures c. the same neural structures and pathways d. different neural structures and pathways
During the second half of the first year, infants
A) recognize familiar words in spoken passages. B) start to distinguish novel sounds in human language. C) begin to display a sense of musical phrasing. D) begin to prefer listening to human speech over nonspeech sounds.
Researchers who filmed novice and experienced walkers in many situations found that the toddlers _______________
a. often became exhausted by efforts to walk and resorted to crawling to get around b. would generally become frustrated on any particular day if they fell more than 10 times c. walked more than the length of 46 football fields each day d. generally did not get up and walk without adult assistance or urging