As Ageing Occurs, What Happens to People's Ability to Concentrate

question 208

Multiple Choice

As ageing occurs, what happens to people's ability to concentrate on a task for an extended period of time? In laboratory tests, older and younger adults were presented with a series of stimuli and were required to press a key only when they saw a particular pattern. Compared to younger adults, how did older adults do on this task? Older adults ____.

• A) responded more quickly and made fewer errors
• B) responded more slowly, but made fewer errors
• C) responded more quickly, but made more errors
• D) responded more slowly and made more errors

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