I chose the article titled, “To Brake or Accelerate When the Light Turns Yellow?”, which begins to examine how the effects of stress differ between two age groups of younger and older participants. Specifically, how stress alters the decision making while operating a motor vehicle which is something most people do almost every day. These participants were asked to play a driving game in two conditions of either a controlled group setting or the experimental group setting that had to play after a stressful event. Both the young and older adults participated in 15 driving game trials, the experimental group had to stick their non-dominant hands in ice water and the control group had to put their hands inside warm water. To test the response of
