Which Statement Concerning Speech Perception in Adulthood Is True

question 116

Multiple Choice

Which statement concerning speech perception in adulthood is true?

• A)Loud background noise is more distracting to young adults than to older adults.
• B)Older adults are more likely to recall fewer details from a conversation that took place in a noisy restaurant.
• C)Older adults tend to be better at attending to multiple conversations than young adults.
• D)In familiar setting,older adults tend to not use contextual cues to help them interpret what they are hearing.

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Definitions:

Stimulus Discrimination

The learned ability to differentiate between similar stimuli and respond appropriately to each.

Spontaneous Recovery

The reappearance of a previously extinguished response after a period of no exposure to the conditioned stimulus, observed in classical conditioning.

Spontaneous Recovery

A phenomenon in psychology where previously extinguished responses reappear after a period of no exposure to the conditioned stimulus.

Spontaneous Recovery

The reappearance of a conditioned response after a period of apparent extinction or reduction in strength.