The study of the aged and the process of aging is known as ________.

A. gerontology
B. anthropology
C. demographics
D. medical sociology


Answer: A

Psychology

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a. people with amnesia typically perform better on explicit memory tasks than on implicit memory tasks. b. when the tests are conducted properly, most people with normal memory reveal very little implicit memory. c. on implicit memory tasks, people recall much more when they have used deep levels of processing, rather than shallow levels. d. psychologists sometimes discover a dissociation; for example, a variable may have a large effect on an explicit task, but a small effect on an implicit task.

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Ativan, Valium, and Xanax are _______________ drugs

A) antipsychotic B) antidepressant C) antianxiety D) mood stabilizing

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Overweighting of first information is known as:

A. Schematic effect B. primacy effect C. recency effect D. first-first effect

Psychology