Dr Young Has One Group of Young Adults and One

Multiple Choice

Dr. Young has one group of young adults and one group of older adults view video clips of positive events, as well as video clips of negative events. Several days later, she tests the participants' memory for the events. Based on your text's discussion, which pattern of results might Dr. Young expect?

A) The memory performance of older adults should be poorer than that of the younger adults for the negative events, but better than that of the younger adults for the positive events.
B) The difference in memory performance between the young and old adults should be less pronounced for negative events than for positive events.
C) The difference in memory performance between the young and old adults should be more pronounced for negative events than for positive events.
D) There should be little difference in memory performance between the young and old adults for either negative or positive events.