Research evidence indicates that the oldest adults have more irrelevant thoughts during processing tasks and have more trouble keeping these irrelevant thoughts out of mind. This is evidence of
a. a decrease in intelligence.
b. inhibitory loss.
c. a decrease in overall memory space.
d. a decrease in sensory memory.
ANSWER: b
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