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."
Ans: a
You might also like to view...
You flunk a test in your psychology class and become depressed over it. What does Albert Ellis view as the root of your depression?
a) the fact that you flunked a test b) the disappointment you feel after flunking the test c) your belief that flunking a test shows that you are stupid d) your belief that flunking a test shows you didn't study enough
Seeing a snake, and then simultaneously running away from it and becoming frightened, is the sequence of events postulated by __________ theory
a) Plutchik's b) the James-Lange c) the Cannon-Bard theory d) Schachter and Singer's
Which Gestalt law of organization must always occur even if other laws of organization are also illustrated?
A. figure-ground B. similarity C. proximity D. closure
Research suggests that positive emotional reactions to stress may have the adaptive quality of enhancing
A) ?fear reactions.
B) ?social, intellectual, and physical resources.
C) ?avoidance strategies.
D) ?use of defense mechanisms.