What does it mean to say that social context facilitates cognitive performance?
What will be an ideal response?
When older adults were placed in a storytelling situation in which they were asked to learn and then retell from memory a story to a young child, their retellings of the story had more detail and were more fluent than those of younger adults. It is possible that this superior performance was motivated by a context in which they wanted to produce an interesting and coherent story for the child. Context can enhance what is most salient to the individual. In summary, context is important when examining cognitive functioning and change over time.
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a. True b. False
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a. 14 to 18. b. 18 to 25. c. 25 to 35. d. 35 to 45.
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