Froggy, age 10, tells friends about his trip to Paris: "So the French people seated next to us ate their pie crust first!" Eating the crust first on a pie was memorable to Froggy because
a. it deviates from the American script of eating the pie crust last.
b. French meat pies might contain cooked snails.
c. French pies are cooked more thoroughly than in America.
d. Froggy was inclined to make the story seem exotic.
A
You might also like to view...
Which of the following can we conclude about intellectual functioning across the lifespan?
a. Preference for familiar items and tasks is associated with higher levels of intellectual performance. b. Intellectual functioning is not affected by practice or familiarity. c. The speed with which someone processes information is related to intellectual performance. d. Age-related declines in intellectual ability are universal in nature.
What term refers to the legal checks and balances that are guaranteed to everyone, such as the right to counsel and the right to present evidence?
a. the right to treatment b. due process c. civil commitment d. ethical standards
Which of the following best describes selective attention?
a. the ability to filter out or ignore all environmental stimuli and to focus on one's own thoughts b. the ability to focus on relevant information from two or more independent sources c. organizing information into coherent patterns d. the ability to focus on relevant information while screening out information that is irrelevant
Older children and adults tend to store memories and to reason with verbatim traces, whereas younger children tend to rely on fuzzy traces
Indicate whether the statement is true or false