Which of the following is true of the stimulants used for the treatment of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)?
A) They reduce children's attention spans.
B) They improve children's academic performance.
C) They have zero addiction liability.
D) They degrade cognitive development.
Question 2
In the context of cognitive development in older adults, which of the following statements is true?
A) Age-related declines in fluid intelligence have important effects on retrospective memory.
B) The processing speed of older adults has no effect on retrospective memory.
C) The working memories of older adults hold more information simultaneously than the working memories of young adults.
D) Older adults tend to do nearly as well as young adults in tasks that assess explicit memory.