ADULT 2 A+ COMPILED PRACTICE SOLUTION
2026 TESTED QUESTIONS AND EXPERT
VERIFIED ANSWERS GUARANTEED TO PASS
◉ Housing options for older adults that provide a supportive living
arrangement for people who need assistance with personal care, but
who are not so impaired they need 24-hour care, describes which of
the following...
a) congregate housing
b) nursing home
c) adult day care
d) assisted living
Answer: d) assisted living
◉ On any given day, only about ___ of older adults live in a nursing
home.
Answer: 5%
◉ Which of the following is NOT an assumption of the information-
processing approach?
a) Information is processed through a series of processes.
b) Information is handled in the system in an untransformed
manner.
,c) Both quantitative and qualitative aspects of performance can be
examined.
d) People are active participants in the process.
Answer: b) Information is handled in the system in an
untransformed manner.
◉ A computer analogy is used to explain...
Answer: the information processing approach.
◉ What part of the information processing system has an unlimited
capacity, takes in information rapidly, and is almost an identical
representation of the stimuli as it exists in the observable
environment?
Answer: Sensory memory
◉ Research evidence indicates that the oldest adults have more
irrelevant thoughts during processing tasks and have more trouble
keeping these irrelevant thoughts out of mind. This is evidence of...
Answer: inhibitory loss
◉ The amount of information that can be processed at any given
time is called the...
Answer: attentional capacity.
,◉ Research findings that indicate differences between older and
younger adults with issues such as memory, attentional capacity, and
processing speed must be interpreted carefully. Why?
Answer: Age differences are sensitive to the conditions under which
they are measured.
◉ Age differences on divided attention tasks...
Answer: can be reduced by increasing older adults' practice with the
tasks.
◉ Most evidence indicates...
a) loss of the ability to hold items in working memory may limit
older adults' overall cognitive functioning.
b) significant age-related decline in working memory.
c) age-related declines in working memory may vary across different
tasks.
d) all of the above
Answer: d) all of the above
◉ Age-related decline in____ working memory tends to be greater
than the decline in ____ working memory.
Answer: spatial; verbal
, ◉ Which type of memory is concerned with learning and
remembering the meanings of words and concepts that are not tied
to specific occurrences of events in time?
Answer: Semantic memory
◉ Which best describes normative age-related changes in semantic
memory?
Answer: It increases from 35-55 years of age, levels off, and then
declines after age 65.
◉ Autobiographical memory is primarily a form of...
Answer: episodic memory
◉ The fact that some aspects of intelligence seem to decline while
other aspects show increases with age is reflected in which
component of the life-span perspective?
Answer: Multidirectionality
◉ In the dual-component model, pragmatic intelligence dominates
during...
Answer: adulthood
2026 TESTED QUESTIONS AND EXPERT
VERIFIED ANSWERS GUARANTEED TO PASS
◉ Housing options for older adults that provide a supportive living
arrangement for people who need assistance with personal care, but
who are not so impaired they need 24-hour care, describes which of
the following...
a) congregate housing
b) nursing home
c) adult day care
d) assisted living
Answer: d) assisted living
◉ On any given day, only about ___ of older adults live in a nursing
home.
Answer: 5%
◉ Which of the following is NOT an assumption of the information-
processing approach?
a) Information is processed through a series of processes.
b) Information is handled in the system in an untransformed
manner.
,c) Both quantitative and qualitative aspects of performance can be
examined.
d) People are active participants in the process.
Answer: b) Information is handled in the system in an
untransformed manner.
◉ A computer analogy is used to explain...
Answer: the information processing approach.
◉ What part of the information processing system has an unlimited
capacity, takes in information rapidly, and is almost an identical
representation of the stimuli as it exists in the observable
environment?
Answer: Sensory memory
◉ Research evidence indicates that the oldest adults have more
irrelevant thoughts during processing tasks and have more trouble
keeping these irrelevant thoughts out of mind. This is evidence of...
Answer: inhibitory loss
◉ The amount of information that can be processed at any given
time is called the...
Answer: attentional capacity.
,◉ Research findings that indicate differences between older and
younger adults with issues such as memory, attentional capacity, and
processing speed must be interpreted carefully. Why?
Answer: Age differences are sensitive to the conditions under which
they are measured.
◉ Age differences on divided attention tasks...
Answer: can be reduced by increasing older adults' practice with the
tasks.
◉ Most evidence indicates...
a) loss of the ability to hold items in working memory may limit
older adults' overall cognitive functioning.
b) significant age-related decline in working memory.
c) age-related declines in working memory may vary across different
tasks.
d) all of the above
Answer: d) all of the above
◉ Age-related decline in____ working memory tends to be greater
than the decline in ____ working memory.
Answer: spatial; verbal
, ◉ Which type of memory is concerned with learning and
remembering the meanings of words and concepts that are not tied
to specific occurrences of events in time?
Answer: Semantic memory
◉ Which best describes normative age-related changes in semantic
memory?
Answer: It increases from 35-55 years of age, levels off, and then
declines after age 65.
◉ Autobiographical memory is primarily a form of...
Answer: episodic memory
◉ The fact that some aspects of intelligence seem to decline while
other aspects show increases with age is reflected in which
component of the life-span perspective?
Answer: Multidirectionality
◉ In the dual-component model, pragmatic intelligence dominates
during...
Answer: adulthood
