The discussion of metacognition in elderly adults suggests that
a. adults typically experience a decline in all major metacognitive skills as they grow older.
b. young adults are more aware than elderly adults that some memory strategies are more effective than other memory strategies.
c. young adults are more accurate than elderly adults in predicting which items they will recall on a memory test.
d. young adults and elderly adults are reasonably similar in many metacognitive skills.
Ans: d
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