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ericka1

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Which of the following students provides the best information about the metacognitive skills of elderly people?
 
  a. Pascal: Elderly adults are similar to young adults in accurately predicting which items they will recall at a later time.
  b. Ladi: Elderly adults are consistently less effective in monitoring their memory.
  c. Jacqueline: Elderly adults have less knowledge than young adults about how their memory works.
  d. Lucy: In general, elderly adults and young adults are similar, except that elderly adults spend less time on any given metacognitive task, in comparison to young adults.

Question 2

The research on the relationship between metamemory and children's memory performance is complicated. However, a general pattern is that
 
  a. children who have a well-developed metamemory tend to use strategies more wisely, but this does not improve their performance.
  b. metamemory is relatively easy to measure in young children.
  c. metamemory and memory performance are moderately correlated with each other.
  d. the correlations between metamemory and memory performance are significant only when we study younger children.



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Answer to Question 1

Ans: a

Answer to Question 2

Ans: c



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