Dr. McGaw was interested in whether children's recall of familiar or unfamiliar words improved with age, so she tested 4-year-olds, 6-year-olds, and 8-year-olds at the same point in time. This is an example of a

Suppose that you are trying to read the name of a psychologist who studies creativity, "Csikszentmihalyi." You find that you are silently pronouncing his name as you read it, because

a. your visuospatial sketchpad can maintain only a limited amount of information. b. challenging words are automatically shunted off to the central executive. c. the visuospatial sketchpad and the phonological loop are both activated, because of the spatial nature of the unfamiliar letter sequence d. the phonological loop plays a role in reading, as well as in memory.

Peter suffers damage to his left frontal lobe and loses the ability to speak, although he can still understand speech

Despite the permanence of this damage, he is able to recover some of his speech due to the ability of other parts of the brain to take over lost function. This phenomenon is known by neuroscientists as a. flexibility. b. adaptiveness. c. plasticity. d. compensation. e. homeostasis.