Children's Increasing Ability to Remember Events Can Be Attributed to All

question 87

Multiple Choice

Children's increasing ability to remember events can be attributed to all of the following EXCEPT:

• A) children's increasing prior knowledge about events to be remembered.
• B) adult assistance in helping children remember events.
• C) the development of more effective processes for encoding, storing, and retrieving information.
• D) age-based increases in the duration with which information can be held in short-term memory.

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Definitions:

Agrobacterium Tumefaciens

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Complementary Nucleotide Sequences

refer to sequences of DNA or RNA where each nucleotide is matched by a specific partner: adenine with thymine (or uracil in RNA) and cytosine with guanine.

Cloned Genes

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DNA Polymerase

An enzyme that plays a crucial role in DNA replication, helping to add nucleotides to a strand of DNA.