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Thomas is a 75-year-old retired engineer. He is working on a logic problem that has to do with an engineering dilemma. Which of the following is correct regarding Thomas's problem solving in this situation?
 
  a) He is more likely than a younger adult to let his prior knowledge of engineering influence his performance
 b) He is more likely than a younger adult to have difficulty solving the problem because of decaying semantic memory.
 c) He is likely to have more trouble than a younger person in choosing the right response from a set of alternatives.
 d) He is more likely than a younger person to easily recall the elements of the problem without needing to reread them.

Question 2

An older adult and a younger adult are both reading a narrative that includes changes in a character's location, emotions, or actions. Which of the following is likely to be true in comparing the older adult with the younger adult?
 
  a) The older adult is as good as the younger adult at updating the situation model derived from the text
 b) The older adult is more likely than the younger adult to struggle with unfamiliar words in the text.
 c) The older adult is likely to have more trouble than the younger adult in keeping track of cause and effect.
 d) The older adult is more likely than the younger adult to accurately keep track of pronouns and their antecedents in the text.



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elyse44

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Answer to Question 1

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ghost!

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Reply 2 on: Jun 20, 2018
:D TYSM


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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
Great answer, keep it coming :)

 

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