Maguire and Colleagues Found That London Taxi Drivers Had _____

question 36

Multiple Choice

Maguire and colleagues found that London taxi drivers had _____ than control subjects did.

• A)larger frontal lobes
• B)a larger anterior hippocampus
• C)a larger posterior hippocampus
• D)a larger parietal cortex

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Definitions:

Orphanages

Residential institutions dedicated to the care of children whose parents are deceased or otherwise unable or unwilling to care for them.

Centration

The tendency of young children to focus only on one aspect of an object or situation, a characteristic of preoperational stage of cognitive development.

Egocentrism

A cognitive characteristic where an individual is unable to distinguish between their own perspective and that of others, often observed in early childhood development.

Piagetian Term

Pertains to concepts and terminologies introduced by Jean Piaget in his theory of cognitive development, which outlines how children progress through four stages of cognitive growth.