Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
Howe, Toth, and Cicchetti (2012) also found that children could use directed forgetting to inhibit items that they were not supposed to remember. They also found that children were better able to inhibit emotional items than neutral items.
Ans: T
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a. move their eyes only two to three characters in a saccade, because each Chinese character contains more information. b. move their eyes a greater distance in a saccade, because each Chinese character provides less information. c. move their eyes a greater distance in a saccade, because each Chinese character provides more grammatical information. d. move their eyes a greater distance in a saccade, because English has so many irregularities in its spelling.
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a. occurs because the prefrontal cortex and other key brain structures aren't developed yet. b. occurs when the ego represses experiences until the superego forms at ages 3–6. c. is due to the processing of so much new information that retroactive interference occurs. d. occurs because infants don't access memories infrequently and decay occurs.