Social psychology is intimately linked not only to other areas of psychology, but also to other domains of knowledge. As discussed in the text, an example of this would be

Suppose that you are volunteering at a community program for elderly adults. With respect to working memory, you should remember that these elderly individuals will have the most difficulty when they are asked to

a. store sounds in the phonological loop. b. remember sentences that are spoken at a normal rate. c. rearrange information before recalling it. d. recall more than three numbers in the same order in which they were presented.

Two patients with optic ataxia both made grasping movements towards a target object. What does this tell us?

a) They needed real time bottom-up guidance for object identification. b) There is memory involvement in the ventral stream, because these patients could use their ventral stream as it was intact. The grasping demonstrated top-down processing. c) These patients cannot recognise objects and wanted to use touch sense to identify it. d) There wasn't memory involvement because their dorsal stream was intact and that is what was needed to grasp.