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kamilo84

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Only one of the following statements is consistent with what we know about the development of attention and its role in children's learning. Which one?
 
  a. Children become increasingly distractible during the elementary school years.
  b. Children are most likely to pay attention to familiar rather than unfamiliar objects.
  c. Children show an increasing tendency to learn only the things they actually intend to learn.
  d. Distractibility decreases during the elementary school years but increases briefly at puberty.

Question 2

Twelve-month-old Claude has just crawled to the edge of a deep, empty swimming pool. If Claude is like most children his age, he will:
 
  a. Stop crawling forward, and possibly move away from the edge
  b. Find the sharp dropout quite fascinating and lean forward to look down
  c. Continue crawling because his perceptual abilities don't allow him to detect the dropout
  d. Continue crawling because, although he can perceive the drop-off, he hasn't yet developed a fear of heights



ebonylittles

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Answer to Question 1

C

Answer to Question 2

A



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