Which of the following is the best explanation why some middle-age people have some long-term memory loss?
a) Middle-aged people have too much information stored; therefore, it is difficult to keep it all in long-term memory.
b) Middle-aged people have too much stress in their lives, which impedes their ability to use their long-term memory capacity.
c) Middle-aged people have less efficient retrieval skills for finding and retrieving information even if the information was adequately stored in long-term memory.
d) Middle-aged peoples' learning genes begin to deteriorate which leads to long-term memory loss.
c
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a) posting clear signs discouraging bullying behavior b) training students to intervene when they witness bullying c) downplaying the importance of bullying by ignoring it d) promptly removing the victims of bullying from the scene
A test question which everyone answers correctly
a) is a poor item because any item that more than 60% of people answer correctly is too easy b) is a poor item because it has a low reliability c) is a poor item because it does not discriminate d) is NOT a poor item because it is fair to everyone