Describe how attention develops in middle childhood
What will be an ideal response?
Selective attention improves from early to middle childhood.
For example, background noise causes more problems for young children than adults when listening to a story.
Executive attention improves in middle childhood.
An fMRI study showed that children became able to maintain focused attention and inhibit inappropriate responses more efficiently between ages 9 and 11.
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6 percent 16 percent 26 percent 36 percent
Carl Rogers was proud that his students' clinical training included __________, which he innovated
A) a training analysis B) psychological testing C) a supervised practicum experience D) training in diagnosis