Children's ability to selectively forget information
a. is affected by their ability to keep the to-be-forgotten information out of mind.
b. might impede their ability to deceive others in some situations.
c. can be explained by young children's difficulty with ignoring task-irrelevant stimuli.
d. is related to their understanding that other people can hold false beliefs.
Question 2Young children's difficulty in inhibiting some behaviors
a. is affected by their ability to keep the to-be-forgotten information out of mind.
b. might impede their ability to deceive others in some situations.
c. can be explained by young children's difficulty with ignoring task-irrelevant stimuli.
d. is related to their understanding that other people can hold false beliefs.
Question 3Age differences in children's selective attention
a. is affected by their ability to keep the to-be-forgotten information out of mind.
b. might impede their ability to deceive others in some situations.
c. can be explained by young children's difficulty with ignoring task-irrelevant stimuli.
d. is related to their understanding that other people can hold false beliefs.
Question 4Which of the following is not true of resistance to interference?
a. It occurs in dual tasks, when performing one task interferes with performance on a second task.
b. It continues to increase over childhood and into adolescence.
c. It occurs in selective attention, when one must focus on central information (and ignore peripheral information.
d. It is defined as susceptibility to performance decrements under conditions of a single stimulus..
Question 5Which of the following is true of the active process of inhibition?
a. It is the inability to prevent oneself from making some cognitive or behavioral response.
b. It is the process of responding or activating some set of cognitive operations.
c. It is detrimental to sophisticated thought because it blocks key ideas.
d. It is often as vital to sophisticated thought as activating some mental mechanism.
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