3 Minute Oral Presentation 6
Catherine Carlisle
Psychology 459, Dr. Leon James
March 1,2001
Pg. 126-150
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In J. Peter Roth’s of “The Safety of Elderly Drivers” he talks about many issues and concerns that effect the majority of the elderly drivers. Today I would like to bring up the concepts of driver-related learning and dealing with emotional upset. These concepts can be found in his book on pages 126-150
Driving-Related Learning: A topic that I found interesting is on pages137-138. It talks about driver related learning, in particular the elderly. It states statistics of how many elderly drivers actually keep up with the times, or in this case traffic issues. It asks the question of whether the elderly keeps-up-to-date with driving issues and how many keep current about the changes in traffic. The percent that they gave was not all that surprising to me. My comment is, no matter what age you are elderly or not, you will somehow be able to learn a tip or to about traffic. I think the only way you would fall out of the trend of traffic issues, is if you seclude yourself in a cave or something far worse. Learning is all around us, so just because the elderly may not drive all that often, it does not mean that they have not heard a thing or to about the changes in traffic. Well, that is my opinion, other readers may disagree with me.
Dealing with Emotional Upset: Dealing with emotional upset can be found on pages 144-145, in Roth’s text. The main point that was being put across to my understanding was that of emotions and driving when it concerns the elderly. The author sets forth questions that pertain to our emotional state while driving, those questions are:
- How do you usually feel when other drivers are discourteous or drive carelessly?
- When the driving behavior of o/ drivers annoys you, how are you mostly
likely to respond?
- And when you are personally upset about something unrelated to driving,
do you usually.....?
The last question was left for the reader to decide. I finally found something that I as a driver can relate to the elderly people. That is what I have been trying to do. I found this one certain passage quite easy to respond and react to. I agree that the emotional that one, such like the elderly drivers could be in, can effect the way they drive. I do not know exactly what they feel or do on the road while upset, but I know that I become defensive and get annoyed by people cutting me off. I do not know about the statistics that was written in the book, and then the statistics today.
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