Exam 2: Practice Questions

If Missy is remembering one of her birthdays and a gift she received on that birthday, it would be most
appropriate to consider the type of memory
A. Semantic
B. Non-declarative
C. Procedural
D. Episodic

The reminiscence bump would suggest that 70 year old Missy is most likely remembering a birthday
that occurred when?
A. 10 to 30 years

The HAROLD model suggests that older adults will show different patterns of activations in the brain
than younger adults and the CRUNCH model provides an explanation why.

Recollection is believed to reflect episodic memories and familiarity is believed to coincide with
semantic memories.

How have the following factors been found to influence older adults' memory performance:
-Time of day when testing occurs: OA's perform better in the morning
-Environmental support: If you tell OA's to utilize environmental cues, performance goes up.
-Stereotype threat: If you specify the test is regarding memory, performance goes down.

Spearman argues that performance across a variety of domains is correlated. Thurstone argued that
performance across a variety of domains is uncorrelated.

The classic aging pattern of intelligence (Cotelihorn) is fluid and crystallized. Fluid starts decreasing
during your 20s, crystallized continues increasing until tertiary aging.

What evidence is often cited to support the notion that implicit and explicit memories are distinct?
Stem-completion tasks show that OA's have a decline in explicit memories, but not implicit.
That semantic and episodic are distinct? Those with brain injuries and OA's usually show decline in
one but not the other.
That recollection and familiarity are distinct processes? The famous names study. The process
dissociation procedure (the list of words about “sleep”). Recollection (the exclusion phase) tends to
decline more than familiarity.
Older adults tend to do as well as or better than younger adults when solving social problems.

Which of the following statements regarding the amydgala is FALSE?

-YA's show more activation in the amygdala when the pictures are negative than positive.
-Older adults show less amygdala activation when viewing negative pictures than YA's.
-The amygdala help recognize emotion in faces.
-Damage to the amygdala hurts the ability to detect happiness more than any other emotion.

In Jacoby's Process Dissociation Procedure (PDP), older adults have greater difficulty with the ______
condition.
-discriminant
-convergent
-exclusion (recollection)
-inclusion (familiarity)