Younger and Older Adults Were Asked to Form Impressions of a Target

Younger and older adults were asked to form impressions of a target person based on six positive and three negative behaviors.The participants were then presented a list of descriptive traits and asked to judge the extent to which each of the traits characterized the target person.It was found that younger adults were able to distinguish between the traits that referred to the original behaviors and those that did not,while older adults could not.This was suggested to be due to

A) decreased social knowledge base in older adults.
B) increases in stereotypes with age.
C) decreases in processing resources in older adults.
D) increased correspondence biases in younger adults.