When they move from elementary school to middle school or junior high school, and again when they ...

When they move from elementary school to middle school or junior high school, and again when they move to high school, most adolescents tend to
 
  A) adapt successfully, after some initial stress.
  B) improve their academic performance.
  C) improve their levels of self-esteem.
  D) suffer long-term deficits in academic performance.

Question 2

Cognitive scientists have shown that an individual's ability to evaluate risks and rewards
 
  A) increases steadily across the lifespan.
  B) increases until a person is in her mid-20s.
  C) increases until the end of adolescence, then begins to decay.
  D) is well developed by mid-adolescence.

Question 3

Cognitive scientists have shown that an individual's ability to focus her attention increases
 
  A) steadily throughout the lifespan.
  B) until middle adulthood, then starts to decay.
  C) until about age 20.
  D) in specific, discrete stages.

Question 4

Cognitive scientists have shown that an individual's working memory capacity increases
 
  A) steadily throughout the lifespan.
  B) until middle adulthood, then starts to decay.
  C) until about age 20.
  D) in specific, discrete stages.