In Directed Forgetting, Participants Are Told to Inhibit or Ignore

question 6

Multiple Choice

In directed forgetting, participants are told to inhibit or ignore items that they have already studied; that is, to forget them.After they are instructed to forget certain materials, they are then asked to learn new materials.Research shows that:

• A)there are no differences as a function of age.
• B)paradoxically, the younger children (age 6) outperformed the older children (age 10).
• C)older children (age 10) were better at directed forgetting than younger children (age 6).
• D)children cannot control this aspect of forgetting until they have explicit training on the task.

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