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Good News for Old People and Learning Adults
A newspaper column discusses Thorndike showing older adults can learn as well as youth. In experiments with 465 participants aged twenties to forties, older groups learned writing with the non dominant hand and memory tasks as accurately as younger groups, though slower. Homer Croy comments on misjudging older people’s abilities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Lee Thorndike
Columbia University
United States
Thorndike
Homer’ Croy