QUESTION 5 Age-Ck.28 [ @ W Positive M Negative [_ Neutral Number of images recalled o N Cl=m oo A OO Young Middle Old These results from Charles, Mather, & Carstensen, (2003) show all of the following except: Older adults have better recall for positive stimuli than younger adults Older adults have PSY.437.M001.SPRING24.Cognition and Aging Older adults have better recall for positive stimuli than negative stimuli Younger adults have better memory for emotionally valenced stimuli than neutral stimuli QUESTION 6 Memory is commonly measured by asking participants to recall or recognize words that they have studied. In contrast, another way to test memory is to measure how much faster participants respond to words they have seen before compared to novel words (.., a priming effect). The latter is an example of memory. L ] QUESTION 7 Imagine a person enrolls in a year-long gym membership and after a few months finds that they never go to this gym because has better equipment. Based on our discussion of the sunk-cost effect, which do you think is most likely? An older adult purchases a membership to the new gym, even though they can't refund their old gym membership. A younger adult doesn't switch gyms because "they already paid for the old gym,\" even though they aren't using the membership. is overcrowded and doesn't have the right equipment. However a new gym opens nearby that is less crowded and A younger adult purchases a membership to the new gym, even though they can't refund their old gym membership. An older adult doesn't switch gyms because "they already paid for the old gym,\" even though they aren't using the membership. Both are equally likely QUESTION 8 We discussed a model of the lowa Gambling Task that has two cognitive parameters, w and | which denote how much psychological weight a person attaches to wins and losses, respectively. Each person may have a value for these two parameters. Suppose there is a lottery that is free to enter, and will pay $100 if you win but you must pay $100 if you lose. Who is most likely to enter the lottery? Aperson withw > | Apersonwithw =1 Aperson with w