You overhear your brother, who is 32, talking to his friends who are about the same age as he is. They are speaking about how they feel about adulthood. The consensus is that they all felt like adults around what age?
a. they still do not feel like adults
b. when they were in their late teens
c. when they were in their early twenties
d. when they were in their late twenties
Answer: D
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Then the researchers asked questions about the stories, sometimes in English and sometimes in Spanish. The results showed that a. there were no significant differences between conditions, demonstrating that encoding-specificity effect is weak. b. people were more accurate in the English-English condition, compared to the Spanish-Spanish condition. c. people were more accurate in the Spanish-Spanish condition, compared to the English-English condition. d. people were more accurate when the language of the stories matched the language of the questions.
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