Cognitive Aging Reflection Paper

Patrick Byrnes Dev. Psych 10/18/2012 Reflection on using itor losing it In what and When of Cognitive Aging I immediately took have intercourse with the fact that Salthouse used participants recruited through newspaper advertisements, appeals to community groupsall with nearwhat 16 years of education. I feel that this sampling would inherently create a sampling error. I feel that schooler was right in addressing the sub-groups of different references of work force variable plus time in work force.The participants in Salthouses study were anything but random, and never took into consideration the type of work (cognitive challenging or non) and amount of time in the hands or whether still in the workforce. A group of doctors and professors might who worked vigorous past legal retirement age might produce a much more varied result then say a group of business people, or factory workers. Although it should be notable that Schooler celebrated this in her paper and said that her finding were negative for impact of apt flexibility.I also take some issue with the coding for the cigarette commercial question posed by Schooler. While points were awarded for the person who could come up with both sides of an argument, and none for the person who could think of no reason, it does little to detailed for the person who can only give one argument against the commercials comprehend that would fit into todays paradigm that cigarettes are a carcinogen and inherently bad for the user and nearby nonsmokers as well.Both papers it should be noted are based in cognitive psychology/theory. Relying heavily on scientific modeling and statistical order to use as evidence and draw conclusions from, in most all of the statistical models most of the selective information has been adjusted then sometime readjusted to accommodate multifactorial functions. Something one would not see with Freud, psychosocial studies, or classical conditioning, at least not to this detail and int ricacy.Another idea that caught my attention was that the idea that some cognitive degradation volition be camouflaged due to the fact that the aging adult modifies their demeanor to overcome or avoid the growing deficiency. This would make it plausible for a type of micro black swan theory/event where frame in family and friends did not see the ailing persons disability until some calamitous event, only afterwards were all the signs actually seeable.