Richards Et Al

question 34

Multiple Choice

Richards et al.(2010) compared infants who were alert and those who were not (i.e., sleepy) .They also compared infants at 4, 5, and 7 months of age in an oddball paradigm.They found that ______.

• A)children that young always showed a novelty preference regardless of the flow of attention
• B)alert babies, regardless of age, showed greater EEG activity than sleepy babies did when presented with the oddball item
• C)the EEG activity was greatest in the superior frontal gyrus when infants were attending to novel stimuli
• D)sleepy babies showed greater activity than alert babies but only at the age of 4 months

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