H5P6

The reminiscence bump in long-term memory is most likely to involve ages:

10-30

A 65-year-old woman is concerned that her 77-year-old husband may be experiencing changes in his driving ability. To assess whether this is true, she takes him to a driving assessment lab where, in a simulator, they test him on this key driving skill indicator:

Useful Field of View

The part of the brain responsible for "thinking" about internally-generated stimuli, such as when you're daydreaming, is known as the:

default network

Researchers believe that because older adults form global memories about knowledge presented to them, they are more likely to recall:

false memories

Of the following, the type of exercise most likely to promote cognitive functioning in older adults involves:

functional training

An inability to tune out irrelevant information is proposed by the _________________ hypothesis of aging and attention.

inhibitory deficit

Simple search tasks, on which older adults perform relatively well, use which type of attentional processing?

parallel

Researchers who study the effect of videogames on attentional abilities and speed on long-term young adult players note the need to caution for:

self-selection bias

Remembering an event from your past, such as your first day of college, falls into the category of _____________ memory.

semantic

The experimental task that involves reading a color word such as "red" in letters colored blue is known as the ____________ test

stroop

A woman believes that even a slight memory slip means she is inevitably going "downhill" mentally. This belief suggests that she is high in which identity process?

accommodation

The four components of scaffolding theory are engagement, exercise, cognitive training and:

imagining

Research on the efficacy of dietary supplements for improving memory in older adults provides at least some support for:

antioxidant vitamins

The use of method of loci as a memory strategy to help older adults involves which set of steps?

associating items with rooms in the home.

food allergies.

social class

For older adults, being high in memory self-efficacy means that they believe:

they can successfully complete memory tasks.

Students don't always like it when their professors ask them not to text or go on social media during class, saying it doesn't affect their comprehension of class material. However, based on the research, it's fair to say that:

everyone performs more poorly after multitasking, though older adults are more affected than young adults.

An older man calls his credit card company to make an inquiry about a recent charge. When prompted to type in the number, he pulls out the card to double check it, even though he is almost always able to recite it when needed without having to look at the car His uncertainty about the credit card number, in this case, is an example of his low:

memory self-efficacy

A 73-year-old woman schedules an appointment with a nurse practitioner for a flu shot. On the day of the appointment, though, she doesn't show up and is embarrassed to get a call from the medical office asking why. This is an example of failure of what type of memory?

prospective

According to the inhibitory deficit hypothesis, older adults have more attentional problems because they are unable to:

tune out irrelevant information