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How does the performance of older adults compare with that of young adults on tests of recognition and recall?
 
  A) The older adults perform as well as the young adults on tests of recall but worse on tests of recognition
  B) The older adults perform as well as the young adults on tests of recognition but worse on tests of recall.
  C) The older adults perform as well as the young adults on both kinds of tests.
  D) The older adults perform worse than the young adults on both kinds of tests, but especially so on tests of recall.

Question 2

Dr. Chen presents young and old adults with a long list of unrelated objects and asks them to memorize as many as they can in 5 minutes. What is likely to be the result?
 
  A) Both groups will encode the material into a story and remember most of the words.
  B) Neither group will encode the material, so neither will be able to remember more than a few words.
  C) The old adults will be more likely to encode the words and to remember more of them than the young adults.
  D) The young adults will be more likely to encode the words and to remember more of them than the old adults.



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Answer to Question 1

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K@

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Reply 2 on: Jun 22, 2018
Gracias!


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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
:D TYSM

 

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