Evidence from Jacoby and Colleagues' Work on the False Fame

question 74

Multiple Choice

Evidence from Jacoby and colleagues' work on the false fame effect has shown that older adults are less likely to consciously remember faces but are equally good at recognizing familiar information as younger adults.These results suggest that

• A) older adults are less efficient when generating retrieval cues than younger adults.
• B) age differences are always eliminated in recognition tasks.
• C) automatic retrieval of familiar information is similar across adulthood.
• D) automatic retrieval increases with age.

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