Describe the processing speed as related to age decline.

What will be an ideal response?


Ans: Age-related declines are caused because older people’s cognitive processing does not work as fast as that of younger adults.

Psychology

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A) the quality of a child's nonparental daycare. B) the number of daycare workers. C) maternal sensitivity. D) whether children came from broken homes.

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a) libido. b) fixation. c) latency. d) psychic determinism.

Psychology