The strategy in which people concentrate on particular skill areas to compensate for losses in other areas is called __________.

A. expertise
B. sensory improvement
C. long-term potentiation
D. selective optimization


Answer: D

Psychology

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a. capitalizing on the serial-position effect b. testing oneself c. utilizing visuospatial processing d. studying right before going to sleep

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a. children learn the language that is spoken around them b. rate of acquisition varies across children, but there is a similar order for the acquisition of grammar c. children are able to apply rules of grammar to words they have never heard before d. deaf children reared without exposure to formal sign language invent their own rule-governed gestural systems of communication

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What is the bias that Gestalt psychologists identified as a common barrier to our ability to solve problems?

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