A 65-year-old male with a college degree and a managerial position would be expected to perform better on tests of ____ than an aged peer who dropped out of high school and held mostly manual labor jobs.

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General information and vocabulary tests are often correlated with education and occupational status. Therefore, someone with a college degree and a managerial position would have likely been exposed to more information and have a larger vocabulary than someone who dropped out of high school and held mostly manual labor jobs. Visuospatial ability, mental calculation, and short-term memory may not necessarily be influenced by education or occupation status.

A 65-Year-Old Male with a College Degree and a Managerial