McQuirky and LaFunny (2025) Asked Older and Younger Adults to Study

Multiple Choice

McQuirky and LaFunny (2025) asked older and younger adults to study the names and textures of a variety of cheeses.You would expect them to find:

A) that memory for cheese is not affected by age.
B) younger adults would be more distracted by the flavor of the cheeses than older adults.
C) older adults would encode the cheese names faster than younger adults, but retrieve them more slowly.
D) older adults would do as well as younger adults in name recognition studies, but do less well than younger adults in name recall studies.