How does aging affect memory?
A) Memory ability declines with age, and by middle adulthood significant decline has occurred.
B) With advancing age, auditory memory declines rapidly, but visual memory is stable or improves.
C) With advancing age, individuals tend to remember fewer specific details of a story and more of the theme or meaning of the story.
D) By age 45, an individual would have more difficulty retrieving a semantic memory than an episodic memory.

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With advancing age,individuals tend to remember fewer specific details of a story and more of the theme or meaning of the story.

How Does Aging Affect Memory