The Discussion of Metacognition in Elderly Adults Suggests That

question 76

Multiple Choice

The discussion of metacognition in elderly adults suggests that

• A) adults typically experience a decline in all major metacognitive skills as they grow older.
• B) young adults are more aware than elderly adults that some memory strategies are more effective than other memory strategies.
• C) young adults are more accurate than elderly adults in predicting which items they will recall on a memory test.
• D) young adults and elderly adults are reasonably similar in many metacognitive skills.

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