How does age affect short term memory from children to adults?

Answer #1

In several ways. First of all, children have shorter attention spans. The younger the child is, the shorter the attention span. So children will most kids lose interest in something very fast and then turn to something else and completely forget about the first thing.

But children also have advantages. Older people tend to think in categories while children don’t. In games of memory (turning cards and finding the matching pairs) children of 4 to 6 are usually better than older children. And adults often fail completely in comparison to the kids. Because the younger kids remember more details. Their brain will save every card in a different slot of the brain, while the adult brain will see them all as “memory cards” and then make logical compartments like “Picture shows cattle”. Then you look for the card with the sheep and find the card with the cow. Because both a herd animals. Or you have a “building” category and you can remember which cards show buildings but you can’t remember which one was the red house and which one was the blue house.

Answer #2

age is the main factor affecting the mental and cognitive ability to perform.

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