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PSY 205 Week 5 Aging Journal Entry

PSY 205 Week 5: Older adults were slower and less accurate on the more challenging search task. They were also more distracted by irrelevant information; they were especially slow compared with young adults when the number of distracted items in the display was high. In some situations, elderly people appear to have difficulty inhibiting responses to irrelevant stimuli so that they can focus their attention more squarely on relevant stimuli (Sigelman & Rider, 2012)…………continued