On Long Car Trips, Children Typically Occupy Themselves by Playing

question 79

Multiple Choice

On long car trips, children typically occupy themselves by playing games, fighting, singing, and fidgeting. Why might these behaviors be occurring?

• A) According to the Gibbon and Church model, they are pacemaker activities.
• B) They are cues that activate a hypothetical switch that causes the pulses to collect in a working memory accumulator.
• C) According to a behavioral theory of timing, they may be associated with other events that occur at the same time, such as passing a particular town or landmark.
• D) According to the multiple-time scale model, they interfere with time perception.

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