You are in your first year of teaching fourth grade. There is quite a bit of remodeling going on at your school, which creates a fair amount of noise. You are amazed at how well your students are able to pay attention to what you are saying. You remember your developmental course and recall that children in middle childhood are more capable of focusing their attention because they are able to ____.
a. disregard what is irrelevant
b. get distracted easier
c. be more critical processing information
d. process information at the subliminal level
A. In middle childhood, children become more capable of focusing their attention on relevant information and disregarding what is irrelevant, an ability termed selective attention.
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false
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children about how they are doing in school, their friends, and the reasons for their household rules. According to the text, both Michelle and Andres are most likely to be a. disengaged parents. b. permissive parents. c. authoritative parents. d. authoritarian parents.
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a. strategies b. a good short-term memory c. a good teacher d. related knowledge