Studies find that older people may perform better than younger people when tested on long term memory, short term memory, emotional memory, recall memory
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Do we lose our memory capacity as we get older? In a study of the effect of glucose on memory in elderly men and women, C. A. Manning and colleagues $^{\star}$ tested 16 volunteers ( 5 men and 11 women) for long-term memory, recording the number of words recalled from a list read to each person. Each person was reminded of the words missed and was asked to recall as many words as possible from the original list. The mean and standard deviation of the long-term word memory scores were $\bar{y}=79.47$ and $s=25.25 .$ Give a $99 \%$ confidence interval for the true long-term word memory scores for elderly men and women. Interpret this interval.
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Research suggests that the capacity of short-term memory is a. quite large, holding a large number of items simultaneously. b. equivalent to sensory memory, holding about a hundred items at one time. c. larger than the capacity of long-term memory among young people. d. somewhat small, holding only about seven items at one time.
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Early studies of the capacity of short-term memory suggested that most people could remember approximately ______________ bits of information. a. two b. three c. seven d. ten
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