A study on the long-term retention of foreign language (Spanish) learned in high school in individuals who are elderly found that
a. most elderly did not even recall having taking a foreign language in high school.
b. a few individuals recalled having had a class in a foreign language in high school but could recall no content from the course.
c. many individuals recalled having had a class in a foreign language in high school and a small percent had retained some vocabulary.
d. not only did the individuals recall the foreign language courses, but as much as half of the vocabulary was retained nearly 50 years later.
Question 2In Mary Jane's high school, there is one large group of kids who are called the stoners.. The stoners are a large group of males and females who are a little different from other groups of kids in the class (e.g., the goths) in that they hold a very casual attitude concerning drug use. The stoners are best classified as a
a. chumship.
b. clique.
c. crowd.
d. dyad.
Question 3Which combinations of memory tasks would prove most difficult to the average older individual?
a. Exercised and implicit
b. Unexercised and implicit
c. Exercised and explicit
d. Unexercised and explicit
Question 4Heather hangs with a group of four other girls who, just like her, all wear the trendiest fashions. According to Dunphy (1963), this group is best classified as a
a. population.
b. crowd.
c. confidant.
d. clique.
Question 5Which statement is true regarding recall memory and recognition memory in elderly adults?
a. They are likely to be more deficient in recall than in recognition memory.
b. They are likely to be more deficient in recognition than in recall memory.
c. They are likely to be equally deficient in both types of memory.
d. Neither type of memory diminishes with age (except in extreme cases).
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