Explain why changes in attention are sometimes unapparent and vary among adults in everyday life.
What will be an ideal response?
Experience and practice can make a big difference in adults' information processing capacities. People in occupations that require detecting critical stimuli and engaging in multiple complex tasks, such air traffic controllers, develop expertise in focusing and maintaining attention and show smaller declines with age. Practice also improves performance and reduces age-related decline. For example, training in how to divide attention between two tasks by using selective attention, switching back and forth between mental operations, improves the performance of older adults as much as that of younger adults, although age differences in performance remain. Although few studies examine middle aged adults, it is clear that their performance lies between young and older adults.
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