On the other hand, the ageing brain can create significant benefits by tapping into its extensive hoard of accumulated knowledge and experience.
The ability to retrieve memories also quickly slides and it is sometimes harder to concentrate and maintain attention. As adults advance in age, the perception of sights, sounds and smells takes a bit longer, and laying down new information into memory becomes more difficult. Just as people's bodies age at different rates, so do their minds. Indeed, evidence shows that older people are just as mentally fit as younger people because their brains compensate for some kinds of declines in creative ways that young minds do not exploit. However, although certain brain functions such as perception and reaction time do indeed take longer, that slowing down does not necessarily undermine mental sharpness. The implication, of course, is that elderly men and women are not as mentally agile as middle-aged adults or even teenagers. Popular psychology says that as people age their brains 'slow down'. In that moment, Rita and Jake stumbled across an interesting set of differences between older and younger minds. It takes me a lot longer.' Jake replies, 'Yeah, but you don't seem to make as many silly mistakes on the quizzes as I do. On one occasion, Rita tells Jake, 'I think it's great how fast you pick up new grammar. After class, they sometimes stop at a cafe for a snack. They live close by, and they even take a Spanish class together twice a week at a local college. Jake, aged 16, has a terrific relationship with his grandmother Rita, who is 70.
You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-12 which are based on the Reading Passage below.Ĭertain mental functions slow down with age, but the brain compensates in ways that can keep seniors as sharp as youngsters.
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