Göthe, Oberauer, and Kliegl (2007) Compared Younger and Older Adults

question 13

True/False

Göthe, Oberauer, and Kliegl (2007) compared younger and older adults in two tasks.One task was a visual-motor task in which participants had to mentally track the location of an arrow as it moved to various marked locations on a computer screen.The second task was a simple numerical task, that is, to add a number to a pre-existing sum every time the participant heard a tone.They found that older adults learned each task as well as the younger adults did, but had more difficulties when required to do the two tasks simultaneously.

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