AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Relative to younger adults, older adults tend to perform more poorly on tests of both free recall and item recognition memory. The age difference in performance is typically larger for recall tasks relative to those involving recognition.

Detailed explanation-2: -Forgetfulness can be a normal part of aging. As people get older, changes occur in all parts of the body, including the brain. As a result, some people may notice that it takes longer to learn new things, they don’t remember information as well as they did, or they lose things like their glasses.

Detailed explanation-3: -Episodic memory is known to decline with age, and this decline affects some tasks and processes more than others. For example, the largest age-related declines are found in tasks, such as free recall, which depend on retrieval strategies, while smaller deficits are found in recognition memory [1].

Detailed explanation-4: -Evidence from studies of false recall and recognition indicate that older adults are sometimes more likely than younger adults to remember events that never happened, reflecting the influence of indistinct encoding of events and the use of lenient criteria during retrieval.