Multiple Intelligence and Memory Loss
Multiple Intelligences and Memory Loss of the Aging These days I walk into a room and forget why I went in there and it seems to be happening more frequently. It makes me wonder if I am losing my ability to remember anything because I am getting older. According to Merriam-Webster (2014) the definition of memory is: “The power or process of reproducing or recalling what has been learned and retained especially through associative mechanisms.” But what about Multiple Intelligences, is there any impact made on a particular intelligence made by short term memory loss and age. As an individual grows older does their ability to recall a certain discipline they have learned when they were younger. In this article short-term memory loss and aging will be researched. This is a subject that is hits very close to home with me as I am facing the fact that I am middle aged and have to accept fact that the clock only goes forward and cannot be turned back. The article will also cover some of the ways that can be used to improve memory. Helpguide.com states that “The brain is capable of producing new brain cells at any age, so significant memory loss is not an inevitable result of aging” (2014). There are several things that can be done to alleviate memory loss, ways to “sharpen” your brain as it were. I have gone back to school in my fifties and I think that having to study and write papers on a deadline is helping my short-term memory. Gardner (1983, 1991) proposed the existence of seven relatively autonomous intelligences: linguistic, logical, musical, spatial, bodily kinesthetic, interpersonal and intrapersonal (p. 101). Can any one of these intelligences be affected by the memory loss of aging? Every individual has something they are gifted with; if they have a talent for dance they have bodily kinesthetic intelligence as well as perhaps a musical intelligence to be able to keep to the beat. Obviously someone with linguistic intelligence with have a gift
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