Which of the Following Statements About Children's Attention Is True

question 90

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements about children's attention is true?

• A)Younger children are as likely as older children to remind themselves that they need to pay attention.
• B)Younger children know fewer attentional "tricks of the trade" than older children.
• C)Younger and older children are equally distracted by extraneous information.
• D)When asked whether two objects are the same, younger children are more likely than older children to compare the objects feature by feature.

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Definitions:

Day Care Center

A facility that provides care and education for children while their parents or guardians are at work or otherwise engaged.

Vividness Effect

Occurs during decision-making when some salient or vivid facts attract our attention regardless of their actual value as evidence.

Probabilistic Thinking

The ability to understand and reason with probabilities, recognizing that most predictions about the future involve some level of uncertainty.

Placebo Effect

Occurs when individuals receiving a placebo (a “dummy” version of a treatment) experience improvement in their symptoms and attribute the improvement to the placebo.