In Directed Forgetting, Participants Are Told to Inhibit or Ignore

Multiple Choice

In directed forgetting, participants are told to inhibit or ignore items that they have already studied; that is, to forget them.After they are instructed to forget certain materials, they are then asked to learn new materials.Research shows that:

A) there are no differences as a function of age.
B) paradoxically, the younger children (age 6) outperformed the older children (age 10) .
C) older children (age 10) were better at directed forgetting than younger children (age 6) .
D) children cannot control this aspect of forgetting until they have explicit training on the task.