Read the passage from "What Your Most Vivid Memories Say about You,” which is an informational text that explores what makes up a person’s identity. In an intriguing study, Connecticut College psychologist Jefferson Singer and his colleagues (2007) compared older adults with college students on self-defining memories. They found that older adults tended to come up with more general memories that linked several events together and that, in general, older adults tended to feel more positively about their self-defining memories, even if the memories were of events that were negative in nature. These findings fit with other lines of research suggesting that older adults have found ways to make sense out of their life stories. They convert memories of troubling events into stories of redemption in which they make peace with their past struggles. For younger adults, events of a negative nature had more rough edges, causing them to experience greater distress when they recalled them. What is the author’s most likely reason for writing this passage? to provide evidence that connects age with self-defining memories to suggest that negative self-defining memories are not important to encourage young people to think more positively about memories to summarize the impact of negative memories on older people