After Students Graduate from College, What Happens to Their Memory

question 129

Multiple Choice

After students graduate from college, what happens to their memory of a foreign language that they studied in college?

• A) They continue to remember it without any loss for the rest of their lives.
• B) Their memory fades for the first 3 to 6 years and remains fairly stable from then on.
• C) Their memory fades gradually and steadily throughout the rest of their lives.
• D) Their memory remains stable for the first 3 to 6 years and then begins to fade steadily from then on.

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