Quiz 8

Question 1

Castel et al. (2002) examined value-directed forgetting in older adults, which encourages selective encoding of certain items. What did they find when they compared older and younger adults?

Answer 1

Older adults prioritized encoding high-value items more selectively

Question 2

Craik and McDowd (1987) compared the performance of older and younger adults on memory tests. Which of the following statements best describes their findings?

Answer 2

Older adults performed worse on cued recall but matched younger adults on recognition tasks

Question 3

When older and younger adults complete cognitive tasks, in which type of task would you expect the biggest performance gap between the two groups?

Answer 3

Doing two tasks concurrently

Question 4

A group of older adults completes a rotary pursuit task. The task involves fine motor function and a stylus can be used to follow a moving target that rotates clockwise. This is a ____ ____ task, and older adults show ____.

Answer 4

Procedural memory; learning

Question 5

In a semantic priming task involving both older and younger adults, what results would you expect?

Answer 5

The performance of the older and younger adults should be similar

Question 6

Peri is running a study on the effects of aging on retrieval-induced forgetting. Her study recruits separate groups of 50, 60, 70, and 80-year-olds. She is running a ____-____ study, and should be careful to control for ____ ____

Answer 6

Cross-sectional; cohort effects

Question 7

Younger and older adults complete a task where they follow a dot on a screen with a joystick. Half of each group also does a concurrent task that involves tracking the location of sounds in a room. What do you think will happen?

Answer 7

Both A and B:
A: The concurrent condition task will show lower performance
B: Performance will be worse for the older adults

Question 8

Lea tests a group of older adults for their memory of years and historical events. Some of the pairs makes sense (Woodstock - 1969), but others do not (Black Death - 2009). What do you expect to happen?

Answer 8

They will be better at remembering the sensible pairs due to schemas

Question 9

Beryl and her granddaughter are playing word games. One is Scrabble, which is untimed, and the other is Boggle, which is timed. What do you think will happen?

Answer 9

Beryl is more likely to win Scrabble, because she will benefit from her semantic memories but not be held back by her slower processing speed

Question 10

Dawn is running a priming study using both older and younger adults. How should she schedule her experimental slots to get the best results?

Answer 10

She should schedule participants for their off-peak time, since performance was better for both groups