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PSYCH 207

09/06/2017

Contact: janelf@psych.ubc.ca

MON 12-1:30pm

Kenny 3203A

Memory: storing and recalling information

Personal experiences, facts and figures, skills, future plans

Cognition: attention, metacognition (remembering what you learned), reaction times,

interference

Primary Aging/Normal Healthy Aging: normal disease free

Secondary Aging: developmental changes related to disease, lifestyle and environment

Research Translation Assignment

Aging research not communicated well in media.

Translate one of the articles assigned in this course into a media article

Choose a media outlet (The New Yorker, CBC, Daily Hive, BuzzFeed)

Write a paragraph describing audience

Write a media article that communicates background, methods, and findings

Submission includes:

Brief statement (150-250 words) that explains who your audience is

Media article about one of the journal articles assigned for discussion that

communicates the background, methods and findings (appropriate length to

communicate material and fit in with source

If source form journal article and not a direct quote, no citation needed

If from different journal article, or direct quote from one discussed in class, just (lastname,

year), then a page at the end from the full citation

If from stats Canada or buzzfeed, just provide a link

Images should be creative commons liscensed

Graded on the accuracy of your reporting, the clarity of the writing and the appropriateness for

your chosen media outlet/audience

Journal Article Discussion

7 journal articles

Read, bring a copy to class

Answer questions in groups

Drop your lowest grade

2-6 people

Design Assignment

Design an assistive device for someone who has a memory or cognitive impairment

Informed by literature on memory and cognition

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Groups of 3-6

Poster presentations

Identify who target client is, challenges target client would have in daily life

according to what we’ve learned in class and how an assistive device could help them. Two

peer-reviewed articles

Pre-Reading Week 1: What and When of Cognitive Aging

- Cognitive aging noticed almost as long as physical aging, but not yet well understood

- Cognitive functioning in early adulthood may be related to development of pathologies

(Alzheimer’s) in later adulthood.

- Conceptualize understanding = knowing answers to questions of what, when, why (

what is ultimately responsible) where (in the nervous system) and how (via what

mechanisms).

What and When

- Assumed that age-related effects on cognitive functioning are small, limited to aspects

of memory, begin relatively late in adulthood and possibly affect only some people. THIS

MAY BE WRONG

- Four common tests: vocabulary test (choosing best synonyms of target words)

• speed test (classify pairs of line patterns as same/different as

quick as possible)

• Raven’s Progressive Matrices (reasoning through matric of

geometric patterns with one missing cell, select best completed

cell),

• memory test (three auditory presentations of the same list, recall

as many as possible after each presentation)

- All tests are in different units, therefore, all scores have been converted to z scores

(subtracting each score from the mean of that test and divided by standard deviation) to

age trends can be directly compared

- Vocabulary test: scores were higher with increased age until about mid 50s where they

remained stable or declined slightly

- Memory, reasoning, speed: scores decreased with age, variables were large (adults in

early 20s were near the 75

percentile of POP vs adults in early 70s were near 20

percentile)

- Scores were relatively linear, age-related effects are clearly apparent before 50 y/o, age

related declines in these samples were not accompanied by increases in between-

person variability

Why are the Effects not more Noticeable in Everyday Life

- Age-related cognitive declines are fairly broad, begin early in adulthood and are

cumulative across the life span.

- Cognitive ability is only one factor contributing to successful functioning in most

activities (motion, persistence etc are also important)

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PSYCH 207 09/06/2017 Contact: janelf@psych.ubc.ca MON 12-1:30pm Kenny 3203A Memory: storing and recalling information Personal experiences, facts and figures, skills, future plans Cognition: attention, metacognition (remembering what you learned), reaction times, interference Primary Aging/Normal Healthy Aging: normal disease free Secondary Aging: developmental changes related to disease, lifestyle and environment Research Translation Assignment Aging research not communicated well in media. Translate one of the articles assigned in this course into a media article Choose a media outlet (The New Yorker, CBC, Daily Hive, BuzzFeed) Write a paragraph describing audience Write a media article that communicates background, methods, and findings Submission includes: Brief statement (150-250 words) that explains who your audience is Media article about one of the journal articles assigned for discussion that communicates the background, methods and findings (appropriate length to communicate material and fit in with source If source form journal article and not a direct quote, no citation needed If from different journal article, or direct quote from one discussed in class, just (lastname, year), then a page at the end from the full citation If from stats Canada or buzzfeed, just provide a link Images should be creative commons liscensed Graded on the accuracy of your reporting, the clarity of the writing and the appropriateness for your chosen media outlet/audience Journal Article ...
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