Description: Simple question: who is happier a 30 year old or a 70 year old? What do you think? Must be the 30 year old if only for the existential issues, 70 years of age is WAY closer to death than 30 so, of course the 30 year old is happier right? Well, wrong, actually…. Read more »
Posts Tagged: Aging
Elders and the elderly: Steps towards indigenous respect in Psychology
Description: In my previous post (http://wileypsychologyupdates.ca/neuroscience/expanding-psychology-starting-with-wisdom/) I introduced a new thread I am going to be focusing on, among other things, over the spring and summer. In that post I introduced an article looking at the place of the concept of wisdom in western society and thought and introduced the idea of rethinking about what… Read more »
Aging Brains: Fewer Neurons or Other Things?
Description: What were you told about the cells in the human brain and aging? That our neurons die off as we age and are not replaced? That we have the most neurons we are ever going to have at birth and things go downhill from there? Well if so, it may be time to rethink… Read more »
Creativity, Development and Aging
Description: What makes something creative? The answer to THAT question is complicated and uncertain despite decades of reflection in Psychology. But sidestepping that question for the moment think about this: What would make young children more creative than teenagers or adults? Are their brains less “committed” to typical question answers? Are they simply more open… Read more »
Want to Age Well? Sleep On It!
Description: As we age we tend to note that we do not seem to sleep as well as we did when we were younger (OK take my word for it). How are the different facets of our night’s sleep affected by ageing and what are the consequences? After you have collected your hypotheses on these… Read more »
Insomnia in People Over 65: How to Think About it and Deal With it
Description: How have you been sleeping lately? If you are over 65 years of age and you are having some difficulties falling and/or staying asleep you are not alone. In a large study 42% of people over 65 reported some sleep related issues. Given this what are your thoughts/beliefs/theories about insomnia? What causes it? What… Read more »
Brain Cohesiveness During Information Processing: Individual Differences and Aging Effects
Description: Over time, research into what happens in the brain as humans age has moved beyond looking at issues related to the loss of specific neurons or areas of the brain as a result of things like stroke damage and begun to look in more complex manners at how the various regions of the brain… Read more »
The Relationship Between Age and Scientific Innovation: Exercise Causal Caution
Description: Have you heard the arguments that have been made about the relationship between age and success across a variety of fields? Based on the young ages of Mozart, Marie Curie, and Einstein when they made some of their most impressive contributions to their areas of endeavor, it has been argued that the sorts of… Read more »
Does Brain-Training Work? A Meta-Analysis Says Only Specifically
Description: You have no doubt noticed some of the many claims in the media about the possibility that playing brain-training games can improve your general cognitive functioning. Many of these claims include statements to the effect that research has proven that their game or games do in fact have a positive influence on people’s cognitive… Read more »
Young versus Old Adults Knowledge Adjustment Strategies
Description: Who do you think would be most likely to benefit from feedback about which answers on a test they had gotten wrong (and what the correct answers were) and make the appropriate changes in their knowledge so as not to recommit those errors in future? Do you think this would be more true of… Read more »
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