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  1. my name is Tyler knickerbocker and this is my
  2. final video presentation for our medic cognition class.
  3. First off I would like to say that I am very thankful
  4. for this class and being able to have taken it this semester.
  5. Um There's a ton of information that I have learned that I will definitely
  6. carry with me throughout my future career as a as a coach and teacher um
  7. with that being said um
  8. My final video presentation will be over Chapter 11 and older adulthood.
  9. Uh as soon as I saw the title for this chapter, I was instantly intrigued.
  10. I had always heard that it gets more difficult to remember things as we get older,
  11. but I've never actually done any research on that topic before.
  12. Um
  13. I know there's a lot of people that are that older people in my life that
  14. blame uh not being able to remember something and not being able to cross
  15. some or recall something on their age and which which I get that.
  16. I mean I think that's a pretty commonly said thing
  17. but always always wondered if that was actually a true
  18. statement or if they were just saying that because they
  19. forgot it or what what was going on with that.
  20. So
  21. during the in this chapter and this is exactly what what is discussed.
  22. Um This chapter is about aging and memory.
  23. As a person gets older, it gets harder to remember things and learn new things.
  24. We normally see this in senior citizens,
  25. this could be the need for a list to go
  26. to the grocery store or remembering where they put something.
  27. I know, I have I have seen a lot of those lists in my life. Um
  28. age can also affect what a person can recall from earlier in their lives
  29. while I was while I was going through the
  30. chapter and while I was staying in the chapter.
  31. Um
  32. one thing that really stuck out to me is a case study that was done
  33. um in this case study, there were,
  34. There were two groups of participants,
  35. one group was a younger group and one group was an older group.
  36. Each group was given a pair of words. I think that the
  37. example used in our
  38. in our textbook was dog and spoon.
  39. And there was a bunch of different subsets of words and
  40. just different words that are paired with different words. Um
  41. and the and the trials,
  42. we're to see who could remember what word was paired
  43. with each or what word was paired with what works.
  44. Um During the trial,
  45. each participant would have to recall what words go in what pair.
  46. Both recall performance is increased along three study trials,
  47. it took older participants, three,
  48. it took older participants,
  49. three study trials to achieve the same level of performance younger participants
  50. achieved after one trial.
  51. And I don't think that this,
  52. that this necessarily means that one person is
  53. our one group was smarter than another group.
  54. I think that younger people have a different way of learning things and
  55. we might be able to monitor their learning a little bit better.
  56. Um
  57. The textbook also gives great insight into why this is
  58. the case with most older adults that are 60,
  59. 70, 80 plus.
  60. Most older adults do not monitor their learning or have control of their learning.
  61. This can be the result of multiple different things.
  62. They may not apply the same strategies during study
  63. and they may not use monitoring to make sure that they are learning the information.
  64. I know that
  65. That is a big thing.
  66. Even for me as a young guy,
  67. I'm only 21 years old if I don't like when I'm
  68. studying for an exam or if I'm studying for a project um
  69. If I don't make sure that I'm learning the information always seem
  70. to skip through it and I and I won't remember it.
  71. Um
  72. While doing research on this topic, um
  73. I came across a google scholar article that I thought fit this chapter perfectly.
  74. The name of this google scholar article
  75. was the handbook of the psychology of learning
  76. um
  77. and which which this article is basically just about how aging affects a
  78. person's learning abilities and their ability to
  79. be able to recall different information.
  80. Um
  81. one quote really stuck out to me from this
  82. from this article. The quote was although the prevailing
  83. of decline in mental abilities with advancing age has
  84. been reliably established for a group of data,
  85. there remains controversy to patterns for
  86. individual differences in such decline.
  87. Um,
  88. I know for me, as I was talking about earlier,
  89. those older older family members in my life that sometimes blame not being able to
  90. Remember something on their age. There's also older people that I work with that.
  91. I mean, they're the sharpest crayons in the box.
  92. I mean they'll be able to tell you a story.
  93. They'll ask for 30 minutes and tell you every detail and make you laugh.
  94. And I think that there are that there are two ends of the spectrum with that.
  95. I mean there's people that are gonna remember something and they're gonna
  96. blame it on their age and then there's other people that,
  97. that uses information and you can tell,
  98. I have a lot of wisdom and there's not a lot of knowledge about just life in general. Um
  99. after
  100. after reading this case study
  101. one thing that really,
  102. that, that,
  103. that I thought about was disease and how there are lots of different diseases.
  104. A person gets older that can affect the
  105. brain and the way that they recall information
  106. uh,
  107. such as dementia or Alzheimer's.
  108. Um, I have known people with this with this disease
  109. and it is, it's terrible. It's it's it's awful.
  110. Um
  111. global perspectives.
  112. I think that each country shares somewhat very similar beliefs
  113. to the United States when it comes to this topic.
  114. I know in the United States,
  115. there are many people that believe that becoming older means that you are
  116. more wise and you have more knowledge to share in most cases.
  117. That is true.
  118. Um, conclusion.
  119. Okay,
  120. so by the end of this chapter had a better understanding of
  121. older adulthood and how age can play a role in medical ignition.
  122. Throughout the chapter,
  123. I learned that there are older people that have age related deficits,
  124. but in the end their memory and learning skills are still largely
  125. intact and can be better with the help of different study habits.
  126. Um, overall, I love this chapter and um, and I learned a lot.
  127. Um, here is a list of my sources.
  128. Thank you again for
  129. all the teaching and all the information that you have instilled in me and
  130. I know that I will use this information throughout the rest of my life.
  131. Thank you very much. It was awesome semester.