{"id":3350,"date":"2014-10-27T15:10:40","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T20:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=3350"},"modified":"2014-10-31T12:59:43","modified_gmt":"2014-10-31T17:59:43","slug":"meaningful-mistakes-help-learning-at-any-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/meaningful-mistakes-help-learning-at-any-age\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Meaningful\u2019 mistakes help learning at any age<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new study suggests that trial-and-error learning benefits memory in both young and old people, but only \u00a0when errors are meaningfully related to the right answer.<\/p>\n<p>The study tracked 65 younger (average age 22) and 65 older (average age 72) people who tried to memorize lists of words. Making wrong guesses when given a clue helped the participants memorize the correct words, but only when the clue was semantically related to the word. For example, if someone was trying to memorize the word \u201crose\u201d they would do better by getting the clue \u201ca flower\u201d and guessing \u201ctulip\u201d than getting the clue \u201cro__\u201d and guessing \u201crope\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The authors say this underlines the conceptual basis of memory and challenges assumptions that people are less able to learn from their mistakes as they age.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/psycnet.apa.org\/index.cfm?fa=search.displayRecord&amp;id=675C6935-9219-E115-A438-D411F2C94ED2&amp;resultID=1&amp;page=1&amp;dbTab=pa&amp;search=true\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in the\u00a0<em>Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>October 27, 2014<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Andr\u00e9e-Ann Cyr, University of Toronto, Ontario<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study suggests that trial-and-error learning benefits memory in both young and old people, but only \u00a0when errors are meaningfully related to the right answer. The study tracked 65 younger (average age 22) and 65 older (average age 72) people who tried to memorize lists of words. Making wrong guesses when given a clue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[282,1677,200],"class_list":["post-3350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-education","tag-learning","tag-neurology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-S2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3350"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3397,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3350\/revisions\/3397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}