How Does Age Change How You Learn? | Scott H Young
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Learning Slows Down with Age
Most aspects of mental processing slow down as we age. While we continue to accumulate knowledge of the world at a slower rate, we gain more experience that increases our wisdom.
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Our minds tend to grow worse
Researchers disagree in their hypotheses about how our minds tend to get worse with age. What can be observed is the following:
- Older individuals do struggle more with Stroop tasks, where an automatic habit needs to be overridden by instructions.
- Older individuals have a harder time with multitasking.
- Older people find it difficult to bind information that occurs in a combined context. It impacts their ability to remember life events.
However, older people seem to be better at emotional regulation.
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Cognitive Reserve
Some people seem to age mostly with minds intact and others notice dramatic slowdowns. The brain appears to have a lot of redundancy built-in - known as cognitive reserve.
Education seems to have a protective effect on aging, possibly because education contributes to cognitive reserve.
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Reducing the Impact of Cognitive Decline
Some aspects of cognitive aging can be slowed down with training.
- To prevent cognitive decline, exercise and eat well while you're younger.
- Learn more in the early years, and continue learning throughout your lifetime.
- Avoid multitasking or environments with distractors.
- Be more strategic with cues and reminders for important information.
- Be deliberate in organizing the information you want to learn.
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