When your Aunt Desirae skeptically asks you how a stimulant can slow down and calm a hyperactive child, you try not to be too smug when you answer that stimulants:

A) Act as depressants on hyperactive children
B) Act to stimulate underactive frontal areas of the brain
C) Exert placebo effects
D) Have no such effect

B

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The average duration of iconic memory is ____ second(s), while the average duration of echoic memory is ___ second(s)

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