Which of the following statements about emotion-related memory biases in older adults is true?
A) Older adults tend to lose the ability to exert top-down control on emotion attention and memory, so the negativity bias becomes exaggerated with age.
B) Older adults tend to have a memory bias for self-relevant information compared to younger adults, and this information tends to be negative in valence
C) Older adults have an uncontrollable memory bias for positive information, possibly because their amygdalae deteriorate with age
D) Although they tend to remember positive stimuli better than negative stimuli, if they are constrained to paying attention to specific information, this bias will go away, suggesting it was motivated by a desire to be positive
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