The majority of old people (age 65 and older) have defective memory, are disoriented, or are demented

Absentminded behavior is most likely to occur

a. when you are performing a very important behavior. b. when you are performing a source-monitoring task. c. when you are performing a routine activity, but you are thinking about the separate steps involved in the action. d. when a prospective-memory task requires you to interrupt a routine activity.

The senior center in a large town is interested in the cognitive problems that its clientsare likely to have. Research suggests that normally-aging clients are most likely to experience ____

a. increasing disorientation and confusion b. impairment of skills across all cognitive domains c. a general slowing in the completion of cognitive tasks d. profound apathy about memory difficulties