What is the term for the process of concentrating on one limited aspect of a stimulus and ignoring others?
a) Symbolic functioning
b) Language acquisition
c) Centration
d) Concrete operations
a) Symbolic functioning
b) Language acquisition
c) Centration
d) Concrete operations
Answer: c
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Yanis, a fourth-grader, does not sleep well and wakes up often during the night. Applying the results of the study by Sadeh and colleagues (2002), we can expect that Yanis will show __________.
A. enhanced performance on measures of visual-motor coordination B. less sustained attention and more behavior problems C. fewer emotional problems D. better academic achievement
Researchers find that acting aggressively often increases the likelihood of acting aggressively in the future. Researchers have used all of the following concepts except _________ to explain this finding
A. disinhibition B. cues for aggression C. memories D. catharsis
Which of the following has NOT been offered as an explanation for infantile amnesia?
A) Infants' original early memories are encoded as physical actions, and these action memories are highly resistant to reconstruction efforts later in life. B) Infants have not yet developed a stable sense of self and therefore information in their early memories is likely to be disorganized and difficult to retrieve in later life. C) The manner in which infants encode memories may not match the manner in which they are asked to retrieve the memories when they are older. D) The degree of frontal lobe development in infancy may make it possible for infants to remember actions, but not be able to describe these memories using words in later life.
What type of attention is described as when people are required to concentrate on a task for an extended period of time?
a. selective attention b. deprived attention c. divided attention d. sustained attention