Research on elderly people shows that they often take longer to perform cognitive tasks than do younger adults. This phenomenon is called
a. contextual-cues deficit.
b. implicit memory.
c. semantic deficits.
d. cognitive slowing.
Question 2Chapter 13 discussed eyewitness-testimony research by Henry and Gudjonsson. These researchers compared children with typical development and children with an intellectual disability. The results showed that the children with typical development
a. recalled more items correctly and were less likely to be influenced by misleading information.
b. recalled more items correctly and were equally likely to be influenced by misleading information.
c. recalled the same number of items correctly and were less likely to be influenced by misleading information.
d. recalled the same number of items correctly and were equally likely to be influenced by misleading information.
Question 3On many long-term memory tasks, young adults remember more than older adults. However, the two groups are fairly similar
a. when memory is measured in terms of recognition memory, rather than recall memory.
b. when working on an explicit memory task, rather than an implicit memory task.
c. when contextual cues are missing.
d. when recalling unrelated pairs of English words.
Question 4Which of the following students provides the most accurate information about memory in elderly adults, as opposed to younger adults?
a. Kanako: Elderly adults are much more likely to have decreased frontal-lobe activation.
b. Stacey: Elderly adults often have more trouble paying attention.
c. Curtis: Elderly adults have much more trouble using strategies to enhance their performance on long-term memory tasks.
d. Juan: Elderly adults have much more trouble on implicit memory tasks.
Question 5The research on children's eyewitness testimony shows that
a. children's accuracy is not correlated with the complexity of the interviewer's language.
b. children's accuracy is not correlated with their age.
c. young children are likely to make errors when the interviewer asks questions in an emotional tone.
d. young children are likely to respond I don't know when they cannot recall the details of an event.
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