Human Growth and Development / Unit 14 HGD 1988 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Peak Social Cognition
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The idea
Some abilities peak in midlife rather than youth: sustained attention, and face learning, which improves after thirty.
In practice
A forty-year-old teacher who remembers every new student's face by the second day.
Where people slip
Midlife is a peak for some abilities and a decline for others, not a uniform downhill slide.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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