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D. In 2012, Taddio surveyed children and their parents to determine the prevalence of needle fears in kids.
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5) Which cohesive device in the given paragraph does NOT signal a cause-and-effect relationship?
'That disparity is caused by several reasons, says Rebecca Pillai Riddell, a clinical psychologist at York University who researches children and pain. For one, younger children are still in the age of magical thinking. What enables us to believe that Santa and the Tooth Fairy are real also leads us to think that monsters are real and allows us to imprint fears," she says, explaining that needle phobias tend to develop between ages five and ten because by that point, kids have figured out that they get poked every time they go to a doctor's office-but they don't yet understand that it's just a routine procedure that will keep them healthy and, more importantly, be over soon. "We don't have the rational abstract reasoning that tends to happen around 12,"she says
A. leads to
B. For one
C. explaining CD more importantly
What potential consequence does a bad experience with a needle in childhood have on a person's behavior in adulthood?
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Greater acceptance of medical procedures
6ABCD
Accelerated cognitive development Increased vaccine hesitancy
Enhanced pain tolerance
7) What is the main subject discussed in the text?
A. Adult vaccine hesitancy due to needle fears
B. Children's cognitive development C. The development of anesthesia
D. The prevalence of needle fears in children
8) What is the primary function of the sentence: "In 2012, Taddio surveyed children and their parents to determine the prevalence of needle fears in kids."
A. Introducing a historical fact Providing evidence for an argument Presenting a cause-and-effect relationship
D. Expressing an opinion
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