According to Mills and Mills (2000) and Posner and Rothbart (2007), in Central European countries such as Hungary, kindergarten children participate in exercises designed to improve their ________. An eye-contact exercise in which the teacher sits in the center of a circle of children and each child is required to catch the teacher's eye before being permitted to leave the group is an example of this type of exercise.
A) hand-eye coordination
B) attention
C) social skills
D) creativity

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According to Mills and Mills (2000) and Posner and Rothbart (2007), exercises in Hungarian kindergartens are aimed at improving children's attention skills. The eye-contact exercise described in the question is a specific example of such an exercise. Hand-eye coordination, social skills, and creativity may also be important skills for young children to develop, but they are not specifically mentioned in relation to this type of exercise in Hungary.