TEST BANK AGING AND SOCIETY A CANADIAN
PERSPECTIVES 8TH EDITION BY MARK NOVAK,
HERBERT C. NORTHCOTT, KAREN KOBAYASHI
CHAPTER 6.
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TEST BANK AGING AND SOCIETY A CANADIAN PERSPECTIVES
8TH EDITION BY MARK NOVAK, HERBERT C. NORTHCOTT, KAREN
KOBAYASHI CHAPTER 6.
CHAPTER 6: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF AGING
AND THE SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY OF AGING
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Which topic have psychologists in the field of aging spent more time studying
than any other?
a. stress
b. memory
c. reaction time
d. dysphoria
CORRECT ANSWER: B REF: 126 BLM: REM
2. Researchers break the process of remembering into a series of steps. Which
of the following is a step in this information processing model?
a. sensory memory
b. motor memory
c. intermediate memory
d. working memory
CORRECT ANSWER: A REF: 126 BLM: HO
3. Ike is hoping to remember the phone number of a girl he just met at a
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college party. In the process ofremembering, Ike will store information in
which type of his memory?
a. sensory
b. short-term
c. long-term
d. working
CORRECT ANSWER: C REF: 126 BLM: HO
4. Which of the following has been found in much of the research on memory
and aging?
a. no significant decline in memory with age
b. improvements in some types of memory with age
c. some decline in memory with age
d. that most declines in memory are due to psychological disorders
or distress, which become more likely with age
CORRECT ANSWER: C REF: 126 BLM: HO
5. Which of the following scenarios is an example of latency?
a. As her memory ages, Josephine can’t remember her doctor appointments.
b. As his reflexes get slower, Frank doesn’t drive as often.
c. As her osteoporosis worsens, Pauline doesn’t exercise as often at the local
gym.
d. As his cataracts worsen, Paul purchases
large-print novels to read. CORRECT ANSWER:
A REF: 127 BLM: HO
6. Which type of memory shows a much greater decline with age than others?
a. non-episodic
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b. short-term
c. sensory
d. episodic
CORRECT ANSWER: D REF: 127 BLM: HO
7. Which type of memory shows a greater decline with age than non-episodic
memory?
a. working
b. functional
c. explicit
d. episodic
CORRECT ANSWER: D REF: 127 BLM: HO
8. Which process requires a person to take in new information and put it
together with already stored information?
a. association
b. processing
c. elaboration
d. encoding
CORRECT ANSWER: D REF: 127 BLM: HO
9. According to Hoyer and Verhaeghen (2006), which type of memory stores,
manipulates, and processes new information while temporarily storing
other information?
a. non-episodic memory
b. working memory
c. episodic memory
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PERSPECTIVES 8TH EDITION BY MARK NOVAK,
HERBERT C. NORTHCOTT, KAREN KOBAYASHI
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TEST BANK AGING AND SOCIETY A CANADIAN PERSPECTIVES
8TH EDITION BY MARK NOVAK, HERBERT C. NORTHCOTT, KAREN
KOBAYASHI CHAPTER 6.
CHAPTER 6: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF AGING
AND THE SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY OF AGING
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Which topic have psychologists in the field of aging spent more time studying
than any other?
a. stress
b. memory
c. reaction time
d. dysphoria
CORRECT ANSWER: B REF: 126 BLM: REM
2. Researchers break the process of remembering into a series of steps. Which
of the following is a step in this information processing model?
a. sensory memory
b. motor memory
c. intermediate memory
d. working memory
CORRECT ANSWER: A REF: 126 BLM: HO
3. Ike is hoping to remember the phone number of a girl he just met at a
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college party. In the process ofremembering, Ike will store information in
which type of his memory?
a. sensory
b. short-term
c. long-term
d. working
CORRECT ANSWER: C REF: 126 BLM: HO
4. Which of the following has been found in much of the research on memory
and aging?
a. no significant decline in memory with age
b. improvements in some types of memory with age
c. some decline in memory with age
d. that most declines in memory are due to psychological disorders
or distress, which become more likely with age
CORRECT ANSWER: C REF: 126 BLM: HO
5. Which of the following scenarios is an example of latency?
a. As her memory ages, Josephine can’t remember her doctor appointments.
b. As his reflexes get slower, Frank doesn’t drive as often.
c. As her osteoporosis worsens, Pauline doesn’t exercise as often at the local
gym.
d. As his cataracts worsen, Paul purchases
large-print novels to read. CORRECT ANSWER:
A REF: 127 BLM: HO
6. Which type of memory shows a much greater decline with age than others?
a. non-episodic
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b. short-term
c. sensory
d. episodic
CORRECT ANSWER: D REF: 127 BLM: HO
7. Which type of memory shows a greater decline with age than non-episodic
memory?
a. working
b. functional
c. explicit
d. episodic
CORRECT ANSWER: D REF: 127 BLM: HO
8. Which process requires a person to take in new information and put it
together with already stored information?
a. association
b. processing
c. elaboration
d. encoding
CORRECT ANSWER: D REF: 127 BLM: HO
9. According to Hoyer and Verhaeghen (2006), which type of memory stores,
manipulates, and processes new information while temporarily storing
other information?
a. non-episodic memory
b. working memory
c. episodic memory
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