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Question 1
The information stored in memory, according to research and our Senior View interviewees,
is
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True to life
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Our own interpretation
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Always exaggerated
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Never accurate
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Information coming into our cognitive system is thought to first enter a
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Sensory memory
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Perceptual processor
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Working memory
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Meta-memory
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The different components of memory should be thought of as
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Being very independent
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Working one at a time
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Working as a system
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Taking turns
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Of the following types of memory, which shows the biggest deficit with advanced age?
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Sensory memory
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Episodic memory
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Semantic memory
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Procedural memory
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The decline in working memory with advanced age seems to be due to
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A loss of resources and slower processing speed
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An increase in the inhibition of relevant information
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A general decline in the ability to process information
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A severe loss of neural connections and decreased blood flow
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Question 6
An older adult who has received a message (e.g., it's going to rain tomorrow) would be
most likely to remember what when telling another person?
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The person who told them it would rain
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Where they were when they received the message
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The contents of the message
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The time of day that the message was received
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Question 7
The woman who conducted a longitudinal study on herself and found increased retrieval
difficulty as she got older was named
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Clark
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Smith
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Whitebear
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Ebbinghaus
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One reason that older adults may have difficulty in retrieving memories is that
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Long-term memory often discards
older and unused memories
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Question 9
There are many more memories to
search through to find the one that is
sought
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Older adults quit searching because
they have more important things to do
Incorrect They may have more important things
to do but this is not why they have
retrieval difficulty
Memory is less well organized as we
grow older and finding a memory can
be quite difficult
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Prospective memory refers to memory
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For some recent event
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For something that happened a long time ago
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To do something in the future
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For the context and source of remembered information
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Metamemory refers to
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Semantic memory
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Knowledge about memory
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Long-term memory for major events
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All memory components together
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Question 11
Older adults' negative beliefs about their own memories seem to be more influenced by
_____ than by their actual performance on memory tests
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Negative stereotypes about older memory
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Time of day and weather conditions
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Who they are speaking with
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Their slower processing speed
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Question 12
The finding that adults tend to remember events from their adolescence better than from
other periods in their lives is referred to as the
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Adolescence advantage
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Reminiscence bump
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Memorial memorial
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Quadratic retrieval spike
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Question 13
A problem in comparing older adults' memory for recent events and events that happened a
long time ago is that recent events
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May be very well rehearsed
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Older events are more likely to be well
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Are far more meaningful
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Some are; some arent't
Have no denominator to help in
computing an average
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The denominator is usually available
for recent events
Can be verified while older events
often cannot
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Normal memory seems to be improved by
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Aerobic exercise
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Taking acetylcholine
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Taking gingko
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Increasing social contacts
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Question 15
Older adults are able to improve their memories and reduce their anxiety about declining
memory when
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They learn about memory and aging and learn some techniques Correct
They simply learn a number of memory improvement techniques Incorrect
They learn that many aspects of memory do not decline and
some even get better
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Older adults cannot do either of these
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Older adults generally perform very well when their _____ memory is tested.
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Episodic
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Working
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Retrospective
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Semantic
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Yes they
can