A researcher finds that middle-age people who show high openness to experience are more likely to retain their faculties and show high work performance than others. Which of the following statements supports this finding?
A. Middle-agers often experience declines in fluid intelligence, and they often take more time to process new information than younger people do.
B. Middle-agers accept new information at face value rather than filtering the new information through their life experience and previous learning.
C. Middle-agers often show declines in word fluency and verbal meaning abilities when they obtain substantively complex work.
D. Middle-agers often show better cognitive abilities than their peers when they are engaged in meaningful and challenging work.
Answer: D
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