One Reason Older Children and Adults Have Difficulty Recalling Events

question 9

Multiple Choice

One reason older children and adults have difficulty recalling events from their infant and early childhood years is that during these years the _____ of the brain are immature.

• A) temporal lobes
• B) prefrontal lobes
• C) occipital lobes
• D) parietal lobes

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Definitions:

Removing Symptoms

A treatment approach aiming to alleviate or eliminate the physical manifestations of a condition without necessarily addressing the underlying cause.

Operant Conditioning

A method for learning where the potency of a response is adjusted by the application of rewards or disciplinary actions.

Aversive Conditioning

A method of behavior modification in which unpleasant stimuli are associated with undesirable behaviors to reduce or eliminate those behaviors.

Classical Conditioning

A learning process in which a neutral stimulus becomes associated with a meaningful stimulus and acquires the capacity to elicit similar responses.