The research on infants' speech perception suggests that
a. infants can appreciate phoneme similarities shortly after birth, but they cannot appreciate phoneme differences until they are almost 12 months old.
b. infants have such limited skills that psychologists cannot design appropriate research on speech perception in infants younger than 6 months of age.
c. infants can perceive the differences between a variety of similar phonemes; this ability is present either at birth or during the first weeks of life.
d. the perception of phonemes does not change after the age of 6 months.
Question 2The discussion of metacognition in elderly adults suggests that
a. adults typically experience a decline in all major metacognitive skills as they grow older.
b. young adults are more aware than elderly adults that some memory strategies are more effective than other memory strategies.
c. young adults are more accurate than elderly adults in predicting which items they will recall on a memory test.
d. young adults and elderly adults are reasonably similar in many metacognitive skills.
Question 3Research on metamemory in elderly people shows that
a. in general, elderly people and young adults have similar beliefs about how their memory works.
b. elderly people are less accurate than young adults in predicting which items on a list they will later remember.
c. ironically, young adults are more likely than elderly adults to report problems with their memory.
d. elderly people and young adults are equally likely to overestimate their total score on a memory test
Question 4Which of the following students provides the best information about the metacognitive skills of elderly people?
a. Pascal: Elderly adults are similar to young adults in accurately predicting which items they will recall at a later time.
b. Ladi: Elderly adults are consistently less effective in monitoring their memory.
c. Jacqueline: Elderly adults have less knowledge than young adults about how their memory works.
d. Lucy: In general, elderly adults and young adults are similar, except that elderly adults spend less time on any given metacognitive task, in comparison to young adults.
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