When Justin's mother said to her elderly father, "Dad, Justin wants to share his baseball story with you!" he replied, "I don't care about history anymore." Why would her father respond in that way?

Reduced auditory input prevented him from hearing the entire
communication.
His memory of baseball has faded, so he did not understand what she
said.
His working memory could not contain the entire spoken message.
His sensory threshold was very sensitive.


Reduced auditory input prevented him from hearing the entire
communication.

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