Tell me what you think being that your are teenagers. I have my own thoughts - share yours
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brian patfield
10/7/2013 12:49:13 pm
I think this is obvious. The thought that you can never get smarter is crazy. You learn new things every day so how is that not getting smarter
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Anton Vrebac
10/13/2013 04:08:18 am
I agree with Brian you learn something new everyday, so your getting smarter, it also depends on the genes.
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Erica Strnad
10/13/2013 12:01:58 pm
The fact that we don't get smarter doesn't click to me. If I was 5 years old and got the math problems I get today I'm sure I wouldn't understand it
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Iva Bradvica
10/13/2013 02:42:51 pm
I agree with erica and the others, i feel like our brains do expand with knowledge as we get older and learn new things what we choose to do with the knowledge we know and are capable of doing however is a whole different story
Lexy Febres
10/14/2013 03:04:51 am
I don't believe we are smarter as a child but I do thing we learn things at a faster pace because our brains are growing at a rapid pace. So I think we do get smarter but as we get older the ability to learn decreases
Jen Hufgard
10/20/2013 01:22:59 pm
I agree with Erica. I would not understand anything I learn now when I was younger. I think we get smarter as we get older.
Mitchell Valaitis
10/8/2013 01:05:36 am
There is a large distinction to be made in types of intelligence that is not really mentioned here. There is information intelligence by which people are intelligent based on what the know and there is preformance intelligence by which a person is able to inheretly preform certain tasks better than others. True these two types of intelligence influence each other but this sound byte seems to focus mainly in information intelligence. This is the basis for IQ since IQ is scored based on what you know based on your age. Acquiring more knowledge then you should know for your age gives you an IQ above 100 to some degree, but this score will go down if you stop accuiring new information over time. This study is attemptiing to show that is you continue to learn readily it is easy to maintain information intelligence.
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Taylor Wiggins
10/8/2013 05:15:22 am
I agree. Genetically, learning may decrease with age. But it's allertness and continuity that keep it going.
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Marko Filipovic
10/13/2013 10:49:13 am
I agree with you Mitch. IT is harder to increase you performance intelligence. People might always be better than you in a specific thing for many reason, biology or just plain skills. However it is easier to have information intelligence because its based off memory and you dont have to out do anyone for that.
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Taylor Wiggins
10/8/2013 05:18:24 am
I think this is a really good study. It's obvious that people are less receptive to learning new things the older they get. However, they can still get it - adults just have to try harder than most children would. It seems that the younger we are, our minds fresh and openly ready, we pick up many more things from the environment. After being exposed to it for so many years, a type of film dulls our senses, and we can't get as much crammed in.
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Mitchell Valaitis
10/9/2013 01:02:57 am
The reason adults don't learn as well as children is the fact that their neurons have already developed and for all intents and purposes can be thought of as static.
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Suzi Newland
10/9/2013 11:00:42 am
I think this is important. Being smarter doesn't always have to do with the "sensitive period" of a persons life. Having an extended learning time helps but it also has to do with a child's attention span for sitting down and listening. Some children are more disciplined to behave, listen, and do the work. Being self motivated also helps stay focused and learn and be smart too. I do not believe that your are born with a certain IQ.
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Grace Price
10/13/2013 03:08:21 am
Some children aren't more disciplined to behave a certain way like paying attention or doing work on time. Some kids have to figure it out for themselves which creates a higher IQ than someone who is taught how to do better in school.
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Anson B
10/13/2013 11:56:11 am
i totally agree with you its how to do it now be told to do.
Hannah Thomas
10/14/2013 12:44:22 am
Suzi i completely agree with you, because for you to be able to learn you would have to have the mentality to want to learn.
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Katie Host
10/14/2013 12:27:04 pm
I agree Hannah, I think for people to learn about something they have to have some kind of motivation. Otherwise, it's just knowledge that's lost over time.
Anna Mijatovic
10/15/2013 08:14:47 am
I agree with suzi. I have always been the type of person who worried about these kinds of things and always thought t maybe i'm not as smart or disciplined as i should've been when i was younger maybe that would've made me smarter but that is not it anymore.
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Alex Goody
10/12/2013 02:30:59 am
I think that its interesting but also what i specualted. I like the thought of having more time to learn new languages or whatnot but for some people, teenagers, it is harder to learn those other skills. If its already somewhat hardwired into your genetic circuitry then id hope it be easier to learn. The environment helps because who your around changes why you learn or how you learn, that makes the difference over the learning abilities of kids.
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Bill Bordonaro
10/12/2013 03:19:46 pm
I think teenagers learn at a faster pace than older adults. I also think the more you use your brain the more you learn especially as you age. I feel that your environment and your life experiences definitely affect how smart you can become. Also resources available in your life can make a big difference in your intelligence.
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Joey Belz
10/13/2013 04:27:04 pm
I agree with Bill. If you continue using your brain as often as you did as a child or a teenager, it won't wear down as quickly. In fact it may strengthen and you may learn faster. So if you continue to use your brain actively then you should learn at a steady pace.
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Matt Grauel
10/14/2013 03:00:45 am
I agree with you. In many studies I have learned about is that teenagers are able to learn better than older adults. If we as teenagers continue to learn we will be more and more intelligent every new generation.
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Gabriella Albanese
10/14/2013 03:00:53 pm
I agree with Bill that your environment and life experiences affect how smart you are.
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Anton Vrebac
10/13/2013 04:06:06 am
I think genes play a part in being smart or not being smart. I also believe your environmental surroundings can cause you to be smart or not to be smart because surroundings can distract you from doing what you want to do.
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Ben backovsky
10/13/2013 04:09:28 pm
I agree with anton your environment and the distractions in it can affect your intellegence
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Grace Price
10/13/2013 05:57:03 am
I think this article is interesting because or parents always say how they are smarter than us and that will never change. Well according to this article we can become smarter than our parents. But I don't believe that IQ has much to do about how smart you are. Someone could be about as dumb as a box of rocks when it comes to standardized testing but you put them in a deserted neighborhood and tell them they have less than 10 minutes to get home, I'm sure they could do it.
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Daniel Kunsman
10/13/2013 08:12:38 am
I found this article to be very similar to my own thoughts. The idea that if you have a higher IQ or educationally nurturing environment extends that "learning hyper-drive" isn't really a new thing to me. However, it was very interesting to learn about how the learning process works inside our brain.
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Ashley Edmiston
10/13/2013 08:56:06 am
I had no idea that children were better at certain types of learning. I always thought the brain gets more productive with age. I also agree with the environmental factor. I definitly believe that your surroundings can play a big role in the learning process.
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brianna luksic
10/14/2013 06:29:42 am
I agree with Ashley because if you aren't in a good learning environment, or if it is very crowded and noisy you are less likely to be able to focus and learn the information.
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Marko Filipovic
10/13/2013 10:53:43 am
I honestly think this was common knowledge. When you are a child you want to learn more. Obviously as your age increases you will not be able to hold more stuff in your memory. I guess this is why our elementary teachers pounded cursive in us.
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Alexis Balausky
10/13/2013 11:14:56 am
I think it's crazy if your parents are smart you are more likely to be smart, and how at an earlier age we are able to learn more.It also never crossed my mind to think people with higher IQ's have a larger window of learning than people with a lower IQ.
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Jensen Luciani
10/13/2013 11:40:43 am
I agree that we as young adults can still take in information and learn it and know it. However I also agree that it is harder for us to understand material. Younger kids learn easier because they don't have much that they have learned yet so there is nothing that contradicts with ideas. Whereas young adults have already learned things and new materiel may go against what the old materiel says. It's all about previous knowledge on things and how open your mind is.
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Anson B.
10/13/2013 11:54:45 am
well that was not new to me at all, already knew must of this stuff, plus i think being intelligence is nothing but being interested on the subject
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Ryan Elias
10/13/2013 12:18:18 pm
I think your parents genes play a big part in how smart you are. Also the surroundings are a big part to. If you cant focus and pay attention you wont learn as fast and as much. I think it is harder to learn more things but it is possible to learn more its just harder because we've learned so much already
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Colin Curtis
10/13/2013 01:37:38 pm
I think it is interesting how learning is easier when you are younger, but it makes sense to be more receptive to information when you don't know that much about our complicated world. I think that it is too bad that kids usually don't care much about learning new things like another language, but when they are adults they have to try harder to learn things kids would have little problems with.
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Kelly Lang
10/13/2013 01:40:55 pm
This article kind of went with how I thought. I thought as you got older it became harder to learn. But I did not know that there was a certain period of time where you were more receptive of learning. This article was very interesting.
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Tyler Formica
10/13/2013 02:09:09 pm
Young adults are the future of America and obviously to go through college, we can still learn to our fullest potential. Our parents give us the genes that we need to become smart individuals. I think a lot of the thing that are lost are the things we don't use!
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Iva Bradvica
10/13/2013 02:40:53 pm
Its not that we cannot learn new things and expand our brains to get smarter each and everyday I just feel as if the generation lately is not willing to take the extra step forward and expand their knowledge.
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Jake Rayl
10/13/2013 02:40:58 pm
Nature vs Nurture. Seems to be the overlaying topic of this article. Intelligence is odd to describe too. As humans, we are constantly learning things everyday, be it scholarly studies or social skills. I like to believe no one person is smarter than another, just more gifted in a certain area.
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Anthony DiFrancesco
10/13/2013 03:09:18 pm
I say we learn the most when were young, which leads us to be able to learn the harder stuff we get teached in school now. but we did learn the most at a younger age, speaking, walking, communicating with others etc.
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seth phares
10/14/2013 02:02:20 am
I agree with anthony we learn all of our critical information at a young age
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Alexa Vickers
10/13/2013 03:14:04 pm
Everyone is different, their brains develop at a different pace. I think genetics play a role but starting off early like reading and hand eye coordination activities help advance the brain a lot quicker. It doesn't matter when you start learning something as long as you practice everyday everyone can be as smart.
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ben backovsky
10/13/2013 04:07:05 pm
I had no idea that environment had that great of an impact on intellegence. I always figured that genes where the most important. Also I feel that we learn the most at younger ages in order to adapt and change for the real world
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Ashley Nye
10/13/2013 04:12:23 pm
I agree with Erica and Iva that we definitely do get smarter. There's no way a young child knows exactly as much as someone our age does. All the time we learn new things but it's the way that we use our knowledge that matters the most in my opinion.
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Joey Belz
10/13/2013 04:25:05 pm
I think that teenagers do learn at a faster pace than adults, but it is not impossible for an adult to learn. If you study something, or look at it over and over you will maintain the information eventually. But if you do it as a teenager, it may not take as long. This is because a teenager is not fully developed in the brain yet.
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Grace Connolly
10/13/2013 04:43:28 pm
It definitely makes more sense that children have an easier time learning than adults, and it's interesting that for this period will continues longer for teenagers with higher IQs. I personally do not know much about IQs, but I do believe that one's environment has a large impact on how well they learn.
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Jason F
10/13/2013 11:33:51 pm
Knowing that you learn better younger IQs could be going down at a steady rate as you grow older. When your IQ is what you know at your age then, the score will go down if you decrease your learning.
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Hannah Thomas
10/14/2013 12:47:30 am
It is surprising to me that teenagers have a higher tendency to learn than adults, because they have more oppurtunities and experiences they couldve learned from.
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seth phares
10/14/2013 02:00:33 am
Its interesting to know that we only learn things in a certain and very critical part of our adolescents. But i do agree that children have a better grasp of learning and retaining information that adults do.
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Lexy Febres
10/14/2013 03:01:57 am
Before watching this video I was confused as to why children learn more at a younger age but after I understood that children are more receptive to information because their brains are constantly growing. As we get older our body slowly stops growing along with our brain. Our brain growth doesn't stop our ability to learn but it does slow it down. I don't believe we are smarter as a child but I do thing we learn things at a faster pace because our brains are growing at a rapid pace.
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Matt Tomc
10/14/2013 03:04:03 am
This information is not really new to me. However, I do find the causes of this to be an interesting topic. Whether it is the result of genetics, or the environment in which one is raised, it still intrigues me.
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Matt Grauel
10/14/2013 03:07:27 am
It's common sense that teenagers can learn better than adults. Just the environment that we are in helps us learn. People around you all studying the same things encourages you more to learn and get help to figure out simple tasks. It's interesting to see that we learn fast on specific topics in our adolescents
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Collan Ware
10/14/2013 05:47:43 am
IQ is scored based on what you know based on your age, so acquiring more knowledge then you should know for your age gives you an IQ above 100 to some degree, but your score will go down if you don't get new information over school time.
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brianna luksic
10/14/2013 06:28:36 am
If you are open to learning and try to learn new things, there is no reason why you cant continue to learn as you grow older. Most of our knowledge is obtained in our brains when we are younger but we are still learning new things everyday.
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Aleah Sokalski
10/14/2013 07:33:13 am
The article is very interesting and makes good points. I think it is true that the older you get its harder to learn, youre less receptive. Your brain is still growing and not at full capacity to youre around 25, so as a teenager youre at the peek of your growing.
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Katie Host
10/14/2013 12:20:47 pm
This article was very interesting. I liked how the scientists did not only look at genes but also how one's environment affects their learning. I think it's pretty amazing how we can still absorb information the way young children do and continue to learn at a faster pace than most adults.
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Joe Zako
10/25/2013 02:01:37 am
I agree with you and also find this interesting. I do believe this one hundred percent because it is easier for young people to retain information.
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Joshua Flack
10/14/2013 01:41:32 pm
The article itself covers a highly debated topic about Nature vs Nurture and their importance in human development. I liked how both Nature and Nurture are now being accepted as equally important. The key thing to remember is that in order to continue learning, we must stimulate our brains by keeping an open mind to many different situations.
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Amber Ramsey
10/14/2013 02:43:13 pm
in my opinion I personally think that the reason why scientists say that teenagers are smart and have a lot of intelligence is because we're still young and in school and we learn new things everyday. However this is not the case for all people because everyone either learns differently at a different pace, or doesn't care about his/her intelligence level. Teenagers are very smart because its due to the generation we're growing up in. Teenagers have a lot of advantages to their intelligence due to technology and the advantage of taking honors/AP classes in high school. The parents of most teeangers now a days will look at their child and wonder why they are so smart. It has to do with the advance of technology and the education system in america and it has to do with how teenagers act around each other and how they devote themselves to their studies and make decisions in everyday lives. It has to do with the environment they hang around in as well.
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Gabriella Albanese
10/14/2013 02:57:34 pm
I think it's interesting that it's easier to learn as a kid than to learn when your an adult. It makes a lot of sense though. When your a kid your brain is still growing, when your an adult your brain is already developed, so it is harder to learn new information.
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Anna Mijatovic
10/15/2013 08:12:00 am
I think its very interesting to think that we don't all have to be smart or dumb because of our parents. For a long time now i've always thought that other classmates were smarter than me because they had smarter parents than i did but thats not partially true. Its crazy to think also that twins in some sorts are smarter than others as well.
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Jen Hufgard
10/20/2013 01:11:37 pm
The fact that we don't get smarter doesn't make sense to me. I feel like our brains do expand with knowledge as we get older. Having an extended learning time helps but it also has to do with a child's attention span for sitting down and listening.
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Halle McKinley
10/20/2013 01:59:24 pm
I feel that the environment has more of an impact on a human's ability to learn than genes do. If you are going to a school in a rough neighborhood where no one really graduates and it is filled with students that don't want to be there, I feel you are more likely to not want to learn or succeed in anything. If you go to a school where a majority of the students graduate and it is filled with people that generally want to be there, I feel that you are more likely to open your mind and want to expand your knowledge. I do agree that genes have an impact on how intelligent a person is but I feel the environment has a greater impact overall.
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Alex Svigel
10/20/2013 02:38:56 pm
I always thought that when being a child that's the best time to learn but watching this video taught me that teenagers have more knowledge and learn as much as child's still but I think it's harder to learn as a teenager rather then a child.
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Christopher M. Zuren
10/24/2013 06:48:11 am
As I have previously stated, I believe that anyone can expand their capabilities, be it physical or mental, so long as there is room to improve. We've all heard that doing things like playing videogames and watching tv can hurt your brain, so it's nice to see that science has found some activities can increase your brain power. cramming for a test and generally studying your tucus off would be what we think would expand our minds, but it's just a temporary boost, forgotten shortly afterward. Children, go out and read a book. turn off this god forsaken two way mirror that gives you instant ammusement in exchange for your precious time, and do something constructive. expand your mind, you only get one.
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Joe Zako
10/25/2013 02:09:56 am
I found this article very interesting and find it very believable. Most young children and teenagers can learn things like new languages a lot faster than most adults. These studies helped back this fact up.
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Reagan Meyers
10/25/2013 03:12:21 am
I agree teenagers seem to be able to learn much faster than any other age group
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Reagan
10/25/2013 03:13:50 am
I think this is very interesting I never though about how much easier it is for us as teenagers learn than those older than us
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