Psych 303: practice quiz ch. 6

1. Studies on attentional processes in older adults typically use response time as a type of performace measure.

2. Multitasking, a problem area for many older adults, is most like the cognitive task of divided attention.

3. According to the General Slowing Hypothesis, older people perform more slowly on reaction time tasks because they are experiencing changes in stereotype threats.

4. Loss ofspeed, according to Salthouse, is the main reason for cognitive changes in later adulthood.

5. The Brinley plot, in which scores of younger adults are plotted against sores of older adults, is used to understand the effects of aging on health habits.

6. The attentional resources theory of attention and aging proposes that limitations in energy make it more difficult for older adults to perform well on attentional tasks.

7. The context processing thoery of attention and aging attributes the effect of aging to difficulty taking advantage of all the information available in a set of stimuli.

8. According to the inhibitory deficit hypothesis, older adults have more memory problems because they are unable to remember where they learned something.

9. Lack of adequate public transportation is a sociocultural factor affecting the driving behavior of older adults.

10. A psychological factor affecting the driving performance of older adults is the changes in speed limits on highways.

11. Semantic memory, which involves keeping information active in the mind for a short period of time, is significantly poorer in older adults.

12. According to the scaffolding theory, older adults recruit one part of the brain to compensate for deficits in other brain regions.

13. Working memory is generally preserved in later adulthood.

14. According to the aging and memory "scorecard," older adults have difficulty in implicit memory tasks.

15. Good procedural memory would allow older adults to perform as well if not better than young adults on tasks suchs as playing a game for which they have expertise.

16. Researchers have demonstrated that improved cognitive performance in older adults is linked to a high-fat diet.

17. Researchers have established that cognitive performance in older adults is improved by the addition of Vitamin B12 to the diet.

18. Cottage cheese is shown to improve cognitive performance in adults of all ages, but particularly older adults.

19. In a study of stress and its relationship to cognitition, researchers found that when older adults reported they were stressed, they were more likely to report memory failures.

20. Studies on meory controllabliity show that when older adults believe they can control their memories they become more depressed and actually perform more poorly.