The Fact That Many Elderly People Take Many Different Medications

question 48

Multiple Choice

The fact that many elderly people take many different medications means that _____.

• A) they are less likely to have adverse reactions
• B) their dosages should be increased
• C) the drugs can interact and produce adverse reactions
• D) they are especially aware of possible drug overdose

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Definitions:

Encoding Specificity Effect

The phenomenon that memory recall is most effective when the information available at the time of encoding is also available at the time of retrieval.

Primacy Effect

A cognitive bias that results in a person remembering information presented at the beginning of a list better than information in the middle or at the end.

Recency Effect

The tendency to remember the most recently presented items or experiences more efficiently than those presented earlier.

TOT Effect

The Tip of the Tongue phenomenon, a state where one cannot quite recall a familiar word but feels that retrieval is imminent.