Nunes and Kramer (2009) investigated whether age-related declines in certain aspects of performance (e.g., speed, multi-tasking) are offset by experience. What did they find?
a) There was no experience-related sparing of abilities; younger participants outperformed older participants
across the board.
b) There was complete experience-related sparing of abilities; the experience of older participants mitigated any basic disadvantages in processing.
c) There was experience-related sparing of abilities, but only for executive control tasks like task switching.
d) There was experience-related sparing of abilities, but only for simple tasks like conflict detection.
Answer: a
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