PENGARUH OLAHRAGA AEROB RUTIN TERHADAP MEMORI JANGKA PENDEK MAHASISWA FK UNDIP YANG DIUKUR DENGAN SCENERY PICTURE MEMORY TEST

Background: Sports, especially aerobic exercise is one of the activities that can be done by community to improve the quality of life. Besides that, WHO declared that the insufficiency of physical activity ranked 4th in the world as a risk factor that leads to death. Aerobic exercise is known to increase the possibility of providing benefits brain blood flow, especially to the hippocampus and increasing neoplasticity brain that is important for the memory to function properly. Short-term memory is a core element of the cognitive development, for all forms of individual learning involves memory. Objective: To determine whether there are differences in short-term memory between the group of people whom exercise regulary or sports group and the ones that do not exercise or non sports. Methods: This study was an observational form with cross sectional design. In the test for normality using the unpaired T test this research covers 47 subjects with 24 groups of sports and non-sports group 23 which is Undip medical students. Retrieval of data in the form of questionnaire data and for short-term memory using SPMT (Scenery Picture Memory Test) consisting of the correct amount of answers on the objects and locations on the image. Results: The non-sports group can answer an average of 12.38 objects and 13.47 location of the objects correctly. The sports can answer an average of up to 17.91 object and 17 locations of the objects correctly. Conclusions: Both short-term memory in sports and non-sports group in the category of sports on SPMT are classified as good. But the average of the correct answers by the excercising group is higher than the non-exercise group. Keywords: regular aerobic exercise, short-term memory, SPM