McQuirky and LaFunny (2025) asked older and younger adults to study the names and textures of a variety of cheeses.You would expect them to find:
A)that memory for cheese is not affected by age.
B)younger adults would be more distracted by the flavor of the cheeses than older adults.
C)older adults would encode the cheese names faster than younger adults, but retrieve them more slowly.
D)older adults would do as well as younger adults in name recognition studies, but do less well than younger adults in name recall studies.

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Research on memory and aging suggests that while older adults may perform similarly to younger adults in recognition tasks, they tend to struggle more with recall tasks. Recognition tasks provide cues that aid in retrieving information, making it easier for older adults, whereas recall tasks require generating information with fewer cues, which can be more challenging with age.

McQuirky and LaFunny (2025) Asked Older and Younger Adults to Study