To "exhume" means to remove a corpse from its place of burial

You are in your first year of teaching fourth grade. There is quite a bit of remodeling going on at your school, which creates a fair amount of noise. You are amazed at how well your students are able to pay attention to what you are saying. You remember your developmental course and recall that children in middle childhood are more capable of focusing their attention because they are able to ____.

a. disregard what is irrelevant b. get distracted easier c. be more critical processing information d. process information at the subliminal level

An inability to grasp the "big picture" due to a preoccupation with rules and details is characteristic of which personality disorder?

a) histrionic b) antisocial c) schizotypal d) obsessive-compulsive