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beth gourley

Learning From Mistakes Only Works After Age 12, Study Suggests - 0 views

  • Eight-year-olds learn primarily from positive feedback ('
  • Twelve-year-olds are better able to process negative feedback, and use it to learn from their mistakes.  Adults do the same, but more efficiently. 
  • In children of eight and nine, these areas of the brain react strongly to positive feedback and scarcely respond at all to negative feedback. 
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  • Children learn the whole time, so this new knowledge can have major consequences for people wanting to teach children: how can you best relay instructions to eight- and twelve-year-olds?' ’
  • Learning from mistakes is more complex than carrying on in the same way as before. You have to ask yourself what precisely went wrong and how it was possible.
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    8 year-olds learn primarily from positive feedback.
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