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Pls help me (it's psyc life span birth to death) I have an answer/feedback for these questions, can u please give me an answer by looking at the answer feedback.
Information: We have reviewed how aging affects the body, but we have not explored how aging affects the brain and cognitive ability. Research points to the greatest age-related changes in memory and attention. Like other organs and structures, the brain does change as the result of decreased blood flow as we age. Also like other organs and structures, how the brain function changes with age differs in every individual. While there is cognitive decline in age, it is not as pessimistic as it sounds as the brain is a very flexible organ that can be trained and “exercised” even in old age. Research into how the brain ages contributes to a better understanding of how to keep the brain active and high-functioning well into late adulthood.
Play the video of research conducted in Berlin in which older adults were asked to memorize a list of words while they were walking a course.
QUESTION: According to this video clip, what did the experiment show? According to the researcher, what do the findings mean for older adults? With this information, what advice might you give to an older adult that you care about to help him/her stay mentally active?
Question feedback: The experiment demonstrates that older adults have a harder time multitasking than younger adults do. Older adults had difficulty memorizing a word list while walking. The researcher suggests that older adults tend to focus their mental resources on the more high priority task (walking) over a lower priority task (memorizing). Perhaps, tell your older loved one not to be anxious about age-related attention and memory changes. The changes are real but relatively mild in affecting overall health and happiness. Compensate for the changes by writing things down or concentrating on only one thing when wanting to remember or learn something. The brain still works extremely well in old age, so healthy older folks should not be afraid to use it.
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The study demonstrates that older adults while on cognitive-motor dual tasks tend to focus more on the motor task of walking than the cognitive task of memorizing the word list. Hence, they perform low on memorizing the words on the list than the walking, while on the cognitive-motor dual task. This is because they prioritize walking over memorizing, focusing on walking would protect them from falling and getting hurt. This doesn't means that they have decline in their cognitive abilities,though there might be a slight decline which is very mild. The decline in gross motor skills makes the trade-off with the cognitive ablities in the dual task. Hence, doing a single task at a time is best for them, as it would help them to focus on their task, and keep up their confidence level and morale.