Unlike Adults, 6-Month-Olds

question 42

Multiple Choice

Unlike adults, 6-month-olds

• A) are unaware of deviations in foreign musical rhythms.
• B) can detect rhythmic-pattern deviations in Western but not in non-Western melodies.
• C) can detect rhythmic-pattern deviations in non-Western but not in Western melodies.
• D) can detect rhythmic-pattern deviations in both Western and non-Western melodies.

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Definitions:

Working Memory

The part of short-term memory that is concerned with immediate conscious perceptual and linguistic processing.

Monitor

A device or individual that observes, checks, and keeps a continuous record of a process or situation.

Sensory Memory

The shortest-term element of memory, it allows the ability to retain impressions of sensory information after the original stimuli have ended.

Limited-Capacity

The concept that there is an upper limit on the amount of information or number of tasks that an individual can process or perform at one time.