Why are older adults more likely to forget what items they wanted to buy at a grocery store (unless they write them down on a list and take it with them) than forget how to drive a car?

Perceptual speed declines with aging.
Implicit memory is less likely to be adversely affected by aging than explicit memory.
Explicit memory declines more rapidly with aging than implicit memory.
Source memory is more likely to decline with aging than prospective memory.


Implicit memory is less likely to be adversely affected by aging than explicit memory.

Psychology

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a. the survey method. b. naturalistic observation. c. a case study approach. d. archival research.

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Providing children with knowledge that enables them to generate desirable behavior patterns is called

a. an inductive method. b. a deductive method. c. a power method. d. a love withdrawal method.

Psychology

We generally don't compute a confidence interval on the omnibus null hypothesis because

a. it is not clear what it would mean if we could do so. b. we don't know how to do so. c. it does not address the questions we are likely to want to answer. d. all of the above

Psychology

A high threshold in Treisman's model of attention implies that

a. weak signals can cause activation. b. it takes a strong signal to cause activation. c. all signals cause activation. d. no signals cause activation.

Psychology