As cognitive-affective complexity declines with diminishing information-processing skills, older adults:

compensate with an improvement in affect optimization.

Explanation:

Cognitive-affective complexity is a way of thinking that involves being aware of positive and negative feelings and coordinating them with cognition. This leads to a complex and organized structure of cognition and emotion. This type of thinking increases from adolescence through middle adulthood, and it is a sign of maturity. Its leads to an increased awareness of the perspectives and motivation of ourselves and others. This complexity declines in older adults, who then compensate with an improvement in affect optimization.

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