Richards Et Al

Multiple Choice

Richards et al.(2010) compared infants who were alert and those who were not (i.e., sleepy) .They also compared infants at 4, 5, and 7 months of age in an oddball paradigm.They found that ______.

A) children that young always showed a novelty preference regardless of the flow of attention
B) alert babies, regardless of age, showed greater EEG activity than sleepy babies did when presented with the oddball item
C) the EEG activity was greatest in the superior frontal gyrus when infants were attending to novel stimuli
D) sleepy babies showed greater activity than alert babies but only at the age of 4 months