A newborn was deprived of oxygen during birth, so pediatricians are concerned that brain damage may have occurred. They find evidence of damage to the cerebellum. Which of these is most likely to be affected by this damage?
a) problem solving ability
b) ability to eat a balanced diet
c) coordination of motor movements
d) short-term memory for personal events
ANS: c
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________ was the psychologist who theorized that children actively adjust their own understandings as they learn about the world
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Cognitive science studies of infants' attention have shown that
a. longer looking times during habituation indicate more thorough processing of a stimulus b. duration of looking time in the standard habituation procedure tends to increase with age c. individual differences in duration of looking time during habituation tend to be stable over time d. measures of looking time are invalid and should be replaced by event-related potential (ERP) recordings of brain activity during habituation