Why might left-handed people have higher rates of learning and reading problems?
a. they process language in both hemispheres and not just the left.
b. families speak to left-handed children less.
c. left handedness is caused by difficult birth experience.
d. left handedness is caused by brain damage that occurs prenatally.
A. Although all have been suggested as issues related to left handedness, only the brain processing theory is related to language processing.
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which eyewitness would you find most credible? a. Phil, who carefully compared each of the faces against the others b. Luke, who wrote down a description of the suspect right after the robbery c. Hayley, who reported that the suspect's face just "popped out" at her d. Alex, who said that she was "extremely confident" that she was correct
Recall is facilitated when research participants:
A) experience less interference learning lists B) can make words out of nonsense syllables C) are able to form new acronyms D) chunk letters into known acronyms E) know people who have initials that correspond to the letters