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justinmsk

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According to the research on prospective memory, elderly people
 
  a. consistently make more errors than younger people.
  b. typically make more errors than younger people.
  c. make about the same number of errors as younger people.
  d. make about the same number of errors on real-life tasks, but more errors on tasks that are low in ecological validity.

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The research on implicit memory in older adults shows that
 
  a. older adults have a slight advantage over younger adults in this area because of their greater life experience.
  b. older adults are much less accurate than younger adults in this area; in fact, the age differences are larger than on explicit memory tasks.
  c. older adults and younger adults perform fairly similarly on implicit memory tasks.
  d. the results in this area are extremely variable, depending upon the method used; some tasks reveal very large age-related differences, others reveal no differences whatsoever.


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zenzy

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Reply #1 on: Jun 20, 2018
Answer to Question 1

Ans: b

Answer to Question 2

Ans: c


justinmsk

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Reply 2 on: Jun 20, 2018
Great answer, keep it coming :)

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