Performance on Working-Memory Tasks

question 20

Multiple Choice

Performance on working-memory tasks:

• A) is relatively stable throughout adolescence and improves very rapidly at the very end of adolescence.
• B) increases throughout adolescence before leveling off at adult levels.
• C) improves very rapidly at the very start of adolescence and then is relatively stable.
• D) decreases throughout adolescence before leveling off at adult levels.

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