Week 2

 While most of the tests that were available were memory tests, I don't feel like they served their purpose. They only tested short term memory, and even though they tested it well, it still isn't a fair representation of memory as a whole. Because long term memory is more crucial for important situations, testing only short term is a waste of time. Furthermore, I think because long term memory is still functional in people that have dementia, it should be valued more than it currently is, so I enjoyed the cognitive skills tests more than the memory tests. They in cooperate more parts of the brain, so they are a more fair representation of the functionality of the brain as a whole. the results from these tests made a lot more sense. For example, as the age increased so did the vocabulary. However, as age increased for  reflex test the scores decreased due to a deterioration of certain parts of the brain. These tests aren't 100% conclusive because disorders and other dysfunctions were not taken into account, but they do the best jobs of conducting effective research.
Did you know that our long term memories contain sharper detail than our short term? Read more about it at https://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2018/10/01/381848.full.pdf