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Children's developmental patterns of speed of processing increase with age for which of the following?
 
  a. mental addition c. both mental addition and name retrieval
  b. name retrieval d. neither mental addition nor name retrieval

Question 2

A measure of how many items a person can hold in immediate memory while also doing some processing, or thinking, about those items is called
 
  a. long-term memory. c. mnemonics.
  b. working memory span. d. short-term memory.

Question 3

Which of the following is not true of speed of processing?
 
  a. It is related to performance on many cognitive tasks.
  b. It is hypothesized to be a measure of mental capacity.
  c. Its development is not necessarily age related.
  d. It is directly related to underlying differences in brain development.

Question 4

Age differences in ______ are central to all other aspects of cognition.
 
  a. speed of processing c. short-term memory
  b. IQ d. response inhibition

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