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rachel9

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What can we conclude about memory in elderly people?
 
  a. Their implicit memory is substantially less accurate than that of young adults.
  b. Elderly people show rapid declines in recognition memory.
  c. Elderly people usually remember more material in the afternoon than in the morning.
  d. Elderly people sometimes have more difficulty than young adults on long-term recall tasks.

Question 2

Based on the information in Chapter 13, you could predict that elderly people would typically recall the most information on
 
  a. an explicit-memory task in the morning.
  b. an explicit-memory task in the late afternoon.
  c. an implicit-memory task in the morning.
  d. an implicit-memory task in the late afternoon.



harveenkau8139

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Answer to Question 1

Ans: d

Answer to Question 2

Ans: c



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