Dr Chen Presents Young and Old Adults with a Long

Multiple Choice

Dr. Chen presents young and old adults with a long list of unrelated objects and asks them to memorize as many as they can in 5 minutes. What is likely to be the result?

A) Both groups will encode the material into a story and remember most of the words.
B) Neither group will encode the material, so neither will be able to remember more than a few words.
C) The old adults will be more likely to encode the words and to remember more of them than the young adults.
D) The young adults will be more likely to encode the words and to remember more of them than the old adults.