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141. Remembering to do something in the future, such as taking your medicine or picking up the mail, involves __________ memory. a. implicit b. procedural c. prospective d. working 142. ____________ memory is involved whenever you are interrupted by other activities and need to reactivate your intention to do something at the right time and place. a. Implicit b. Procedural c. Prospective d. Working 143. Older adults’ prospective memory is not as good as young adults’ prospective memory because a. it takes older adults longer to think back to previous thoughts. b. revisiting ideas fails to strengthen memories as much as it does for younger adults. c. a specific part of the prefrontal cortex is less active in older adults who are trying to “refresh” information stored earlier. d. of all of these reasons. 144. Older adults usually remember as much _________ information, which is basic facts and word meanings, as young adults do, but older adults have more difficulty retrieving it when needed. a. implicit b. episodic c. semantic d. procedural 145. The _________ is the frustrating feeling of knowing a word or name but not being able to retrieve it from memory. a. primacy effect b. tip of the tongue phenomenon c. phi phenomenon d. serial position effect 146. You are taking a test and are asked the name of a theorist that developed the cognitive stages. You know you have heard his name a million times and can even see his picture from the textbook in your mind, but you cannot remember his name. You have just experienced the a. primacy effect. b. tip of the tongue phenomenon. c. phi phenomenon. d. serial position effect. 147. You sit down to watch the television and an old movie is on. An actor comes on the screen, and you try to remember his name. As you try to remember his name, you remember the names of several other movies he was in but you cannot remember his name. You have just experienced the a. primacy effect. b. tip of the tongue phenomenon. c. phi phenomenon. d. serial position effect. 148. Which of the following is/are TRUE regarding older adults’ memory? a. Older adults usually remember as much semantic information as young adults, but have difficulty retrieving it. b. Older adults experience instances of the tip of the tongue phenomenon (TOTs) more often than young adults. c. Older adults are slower to name common objects than younger adults. d. All of these statements are true. 149. ___________ memories are personal memories of incidents that happened in your past, such as your first date and your high school graduation. a. Episodic b. Prospective c. Implicit d. Procedural 150. Your grandfather has told the same story to you at least ten times in the last year. This occurs because of a. source-monitoring problems. b. procedural memory problems. c. prospective memory problems. d. retrieval-access problems.