Kheirzadeh and Parzadian (2015) investigated whether there were differences between children and adults in their working and long term memory functioning. They conducted a study consisting of young and older male adults that were learners of English. The instructors selected words from two books that participants had studied in their past semester. One book for the younger learner and one book for the adult. First, participants received a recall test right after being showed a slideshow containing words from the books. Second, the instructor’s intentions was to distract the participants. They asks the participants to do arithmetic calculations. Third, they were given recognition test to see what they remembered. As a result, the adults remembered
