The Amount of Time Someone Takes to Do a Task

question 22

Multiple Choice

The amount of time someone takes to do a task such as mental addition

• A)has little to do with working memory.
• B)goes down sharply from middle childhood to early adolescence.
• C)is the result of divided attention.
• D)depends on abstract logical structures.

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