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Which aspect of memory shows a decline in some cross-sectional studies during middle adulthood?

Procedural memory

Verbal memory

Long-term memory

Short-term memory (correct)

Which type of memory continues to increase for most people during middle adulthood?

Long-term memory (correct)

Verbal memory

Procedural memory

Short-term memory

Which cognitive ability declines in some respects during middle adulthood?

Memory

Inhibition

Attention (correct)

Response

Which ability appears to decline with age and involves maintaining attention on multiple information sources simultaneously?

Divided attention Signup and view all the answers

In laboratory tasks involving switching between assessing pairs of numbers, who performs better?

Emerging adults Signup and view all the answers

Which ability is crucial for working productively and may decline with age?

Divided attention Signup and view all the answers

Which ability declines from young to middle adulthood and is measured by the amount of time it takes to respond to a stimulus?

Reaction time Signup and view all the answers

Match the following studies with their findings on memory during middle adulthood:

Salthouse, 2000; Wang et al., 2011 = Decline in short-term memory Seattle Longitudinal Study (Schaie, 2005) = Increase in verbal memory Seattle Longitudinal Study (Vocabulary test) = Increase in long-term memory stores Salthouse, 2016 = Decline in focusing attention on relevant information Signup and view all the answers

Match the following types of knowledge with their changes during middle adulthood:

Factual knowledge = Increase, contributing to the development of expertise Procedural knowledge = Increase, contributing to the development of expertise Short-term memory = Possible decline Ability to focus attention = Decline Signup and view all the answers

Match the following cognitive functions with their changes during middle adulthood:

Ability to inhibit a response to irrelevant information = Decrease Ability to remember lists of words = Possible decline Memory for historical events = Increase Ability to play a card game = Increase due to procedural knowledge Signup and view all the answers

Match the following cognitive abilities with their definitions:

Divided attention = Ability to maintain attention on two or more information sources simultaneously Perceptual speed = Ability to respond quickly and accurately to sensory stimuli Reaction time = Amount of time it takes the person to respond to the stimulus Multitasking = Performing multiple tasks at the same time Signup and view all the answers

Match the following age groups with their performance in certain cognitive tasks:

Emerging adults = Perform better in tasks involving switching between assessing pairs of numbers Midlife adults = Typically have a few milliseconds longer reaction time than young adults Young adults = Have quicker reaction times in laboratory tasks involving lights and sounds Middle adults = Show an unmistakable decline from young to middle adulthood in the test of perceptual speed Signup and view all the answers

Match the following actions with their associated cognitive abilities:

Listening to music while reading = Divided attention Pressing a button in response to a sound = Perceptual speed Responding to a driving situation that requires an immediate reaction = Reaction time Making dinner while supervising a child’s homework = Multitasking Signup and view all the answers

Match the following cognitive abilities with their implications in real-life activities:

Decline in ability to screen out irrelevant information = Leads to a decline in productivity Ability to sustain divided attention = Valuable for many kinds of activity that require multitasking Decline in reaction time = Affects performance in electronic games and immediate driving situations Decline in perceptual speed = Few activities in the course of daily life require the kind of quick reaction times tested in psychology experiments Signup and view all the answers

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