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Description: Time pressure restricts engagement of the deliberative cognitive processes and allows for more intuitive responses. Limiting the amount of time a person has to respond, or time pressure, is a common strategy used to test the role of cognitive control processes on behavior. People respond more intuitively under time pressure during similar risky decision making tasks. Time pressure has been successfully used to examine the role of cognitive control on decision making and time pressure often has a greater impact on older adults than their younger counterparts. Participants will complete a variant of the skewed gambling task to explore the influence of time pressure on cognitive control during skewed decision making. In this variant, five 18-trial blocks will have a 4-second decision window (no pressure condition) and five 18 trial blocks will have a 1-second decision window (time pressure condition). Condition blocks will be interleaved with presentation order counterbalanced across subjects.