Generalizing from the Text, the Best Strategy to Ensure That

question 44

Multiple Choice

Generalizing from the text, the best strategy to ensure that an older adult performs at top capacity on a memory test is to:

• A) give the measure quickly.
• B) label the test as a measure of wisdom.
• C) prepare the person mentally by pointing out in exactly what ways memory declines with age.
• D) prepare the person mentally, by having her eat right before the test.

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Definitions:

Social Scripts

Predefined, culturally embedded expectations about how to act or behave in particular social situations or types of interactions.

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Sexual Orientation

An enduring pattern of emotional, romantic, or sexual attraction to men, women, both genders, neither gender, or another gender.