McQuirky and LaFunny (2025) Asked Older and Younger Adults to Study

question 41

Multiple Choice

McQuirky and LaFunny (2025) asked older and younger adults to study the names and textures of a variety of cheeses.You would expect them to find:

• A)that memory for cheese is not affected by age.
• B)younger adults would be more distracted by the flavor of the cheeses than older adults.
• C)older adults would encode the cheese names faster than younger adults, but retrieve them more slowly.
• D)older adults would do as well as younger adults in name recognition studies, but do less well than younger adults in name recall studies.

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Definitions:

REM Sleep

Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep, a unique phase of sleep involving vivid dreams, and is thought to play a role in learning and memory.

N3 Sleep

The third stage of non-REM sleep, characterized by deep sleep and the slowest brain waves during sleep, essential for restorative sleep.

N2 Sleep

A stage of sleep associated with the first instances of true sleep spindles and K-complexes, marking deeper sleep than N1.

N1 Sleep

The initial stage of the sleep cycle that marks the transition from wakefulness to sleep, characterized by light sleep and reduced sensory activity.