Exam 15: Memory and Aging

Craik (2005)identifies two variables that modulate the overall decline in episodic memory performance in the elderly, which include environmental support and which other factor?

Black et al.'s (1990)motor skill group of rats showed an increase in synapses in which part of the brain?

Naveh-Benjamin found evidence of learning impairment for binding together unrelated materials. This basic learning impairment has given rise to which of the following?

Bäckman et al. (2000)found a sizable correlation between which of the following and episodic memory, accounting for roughly 38% of the variance of performance on word recognition and 48% on face recognition?

May, Hasher, and Kane (1999)argued that aging deficits in working memory may result from _____ rather than problems with storage or processing

As we get older,

Ihle et al. (2012)used a diary-based approach to study prospective memory in older and younger adults. One of the main findings from the study was that:

The tendency for people born in different times to demonstrate different behaviors simply due to environmental changes is known as the _____ effect

Knowledge of historical facts tends to increase with age, although Burke et al. (1991)reported that what declines in tandem?

Tan et al. (2017)used which technique to study arterial health of participants aged between 55 and 87?

Under practice conditions, Bäckman and Molander (1986)found that both young and older golfers had a slowed heart rate when making a shot. This was only found in young golfers during competition. The slowed heart rate was taken as an indication of:

Using IQ scores from 11-year-olds in 1932 and subsequent follow-up tests, Deary et al. (2004; 2006)found evidence for all of the following, EXCEPT:

When older people are asked how old they feel, their responses are typically:

Cockburn and Smith (1991), as well as Maylor (1996), found that which of the following types of prospective memory declined with age?

Practice effects and participant drop-out are two problems especially associated with which principal method for studying the effects of aging on memory?

The current view of the self-performed task effect holds that the observed advantage stems largely from which of the following?

Sunderland et al. (1986)suggested that:

Cabeza et al. (2004)observed which discrepancy between older and younger adults when performing working memory and visual attention tasks?

Which of the following issues discussed in the text is a major criticism of the correlational approach used by Salthouse (1996)and others?

The proposal that the age deficit in memory comes from an impaired capacity to form associations between previously unrelated stimuli is called: