Your Professor Is Conducting an Investigation of Visual Attention in Infants.A

question 24

Multiple Choice

Your professor is conducting an investigation of visual attention in infants.A relatively complex pattern will be presented to the infants, hopefully eliciting visual attention.What do you predict will happen with repeated presentations of the complex visual stimulus?

• A)The infants will show uniformly high levels of responding across all trials.
• B)The infants will increase, then decrease, responding.
• C)The infants will decrease, then increase, responding.
• D)The infants will show a high level of responding on the first trial, then decreasing responding on subsequent trials.

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Definitions:

Proteins

Large biomolecules consisting of one or more long chains of amino acid residues, crucial for the structure and function of living cells.

Amino Acids

Organic compounds containing an amine group, a carboxylic acid group, and a side chain that varies between different amino acids, essential for protein synthesis.

Glycine

The simplest amino acid with the formula NH2CH2COOH, used in the biosynthesis of proteins.

Alanine

A nonessential amino acid used by the body to build proteins and involved in metabolism.