Dr.Young has one group of young adults and one group of older adult's view video clips of positive events,as well as video clips of negative events.Several days later,she tests the participants' memories for the events.Based on your text's discussion,which pattern of results might Dr.Young expect?
A) The memory performance of older adults should be poorer than that of the younger adults for the negative events, but better than that of the younger adults for the positive events.
B) The difference in memory performance between the young and old adults should be less pronounced for negative events than for positive events.
C) The difference in memory performance between the young and old adults should be more pronounced for negative events than for positive events.
D) There should be little difference in memory performance between the young and old adults for either negative or positive events.

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Older adults often show a positivity effect, where they remember positive information better than negative, leading to a more pronounced difference in memory performance for negative events compared to positive events.

DrYoung Has One Group of Young Adults and One Group