Nunes and Kramer (2009)investigated Whether Age-Related Declines in Certain Aspects

question 6

Multiple Choice

Nunes and Kramer (2009) investigated whether age-related declines in certain aspects of performance (e.g. ,speed,multitasking) 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.

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