Which of the Following Statements Is True of Research by Schaie

question 46

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements is true of research by Schaie and Salthouse?

• A) Both agree that adulthood is the time when the level of functioning in a number of cognitive domains is maintained or even increases.
• B) Salthouse recently has argued that his longitudinal research on aging and cognitive functioning should not be dismissed.
• C) Salthouse agrees with Schaie that cognitive functioning involving accumulated knowledge, such as vocabulary and general information, does not show early age-related decline but rather continues to increase at least until 60 years of age.
• D) Schaie has argued that reasoning, memory, spatial visualization, and processing speed begin declining in early adulthood and show further decline in the 50s.

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