Which of the following statements is TRUE regarding the capacity of people's information processing abilities?
A) Children are limited in their information processing capacity, but adults are not.
B) Once a person's processing limit is reached, he or she will begin making cognitive errors.
C) People's information processing abilities are genetically determined and do not change.
D) Not everyone has a limit to his or her ability to process information.
B
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