The Study in Which 6-Year-Old Children Were Presented with a 5-Day

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Multiple Choice

The study in which 6-year-old children were presented with a 5-day training program designed to improve effortful attention demonstrated that experience can

• A) improve intelligence test scores but not brain processes.
• B) change brain processes but not intelligence test scores.
• C) improve both intelligence test scores and brain processes.
• D) change neither intelligence test scores nor brain processes.

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Definitions:

Metaphase

Third phase of mitosis; chromosomes are aligned at the metaphase plate.

Chromosomes Line Up

A phase during cell division where chromosomes align in the middle of the cell before being separated into daughter cells.

Sister Chromatids

Identical copies of a chromosome connected by a centromere, formed during the S phase of cell division.

Cell Cycle

The series of phases that a cell goes through from its formation to its division into two daughter cells.