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processing strategies in your everyday life. We are going to take
a brief expedition in Chapter 5, “Support the Aging Brain,” to
discover the effects of aging on our systems so that we can
combine compensation and accommodation strategies with our
information-processing techniques. Chapters 6, “Regain an Ag-
ile Brain,” and 7, “Enjoy Your Ageless Mental Agility,” will pre-
sent a more robust treatment of the ideas found in Chapters 4
and 5 and will introduce new, more advanced techniques.

SOLUTIONSTO EXERCISES AND GAMES

Information-Processing Preassessment
Solution: Give yourself one point for each of the follow-
ing answers:

1. bread, ice cream, bananas, rice, and soup

2. my sister
3. no
4. Ruth
5. six shirts and a suit
6. watch repair, drugstore, shoe repair, and bank

7. the bank
8. Nothing—the hardware store is not on my list of
errands.
9. No, I need to pick up the shoes.
10. Two birthday cards and a prescription.

The Advantages of Repetition Priming
Solutions: 1. Ivory soap 2. Ajax 3. Preference hair color
4. Nike sports equipment 5. Roto-Rooter 6. NBC television
network 7. Campbell’s soup 8. Hellman’s mayonnaise
9. United Airlines 10. Hallmark cards 11. Kentucky Fried
Chicken (KFC) 12. Exxon gasoline 13. Wheaties cereal 14.
Frosted Flakes cereal 15. Baskin Robbins