Ten-Year-Old Elisa Has Several Accurate, Well-Developed Scripts, Including One for Grocery

question 110

Multiple Choice

Ten-year-old Elisa has several accurate, well-developed scripts, including one for grocery shopping. Which is the most likely example of her shopping script?

• A) Enter store; see piece of candy; beg for candy; parent buys candy
• B) Realize that people work to earn money; look at them buying things in a store
• C) Envision the size of the candy bar that she ate yesterday; compare it to the candy bars in the store
• D) Remember that she needs to buy a carton of chocolate milk; mentally picture a brown cow drinking out of a glass

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Definitions:

Medulla

A section of the brainstem involved in autonomic functions, such as breathing, heart rate, and blood pressure.

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A major structure of the hindbrain that is responsible for motor control, coordination, precision, and accurate timing, but does not initiate movement.

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A region of the cerebral cortex located beneath the temples, responsible for processing auditory information and involved in memory and emotion.

TMS

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