Question #1 Word Count: 245 P1: The Critical lure in Experiment 1 is a word that was related to the studied words but wasn’t actually present in the original list. Studied words that were not omitted were recalled with a 75% confidence level. Unrelated lures stuck out like a sore thumb at (80%), and weakly related lures showed little significant, but critical lures were recalled with false confidence of (58%). This data demonstrates that we falsely remember things related in subject matter but fail to identify the source of these items especially when there is in-between time recall. P2: The fact that we can misjudge the source of our memories by creating what we think to be a realistic origin of memory can help explain why the critical…
Many of the people interviewed from Little Rock, Arkansas were born around the time the war ended, so they did not experience the horrors of slavery themselves. The stories of their parents being all they have to share. Most of the former slaves moved to Arkansas to farm; these ex-slaves kept farming occupations until their retirement. Former slaves from Little Rock, Arkansas shared the same attitude towards work ethic; they were all willing to work hard.…
In the book Mistakes Were Made (but not by me) by Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson, they talk about the idea that memory is reconstructive. It means, memories can be affected by things that are currently happening. The idea of source confusion, the misattribution of information. The problem comes in criminal trials, relationships, and politics.…
The third hypothesis is “. Encoding short-term memories into long-term storage”. One popular Chinese psychologist, Jie Zhang, explores this idea in this way. Our brain is always storing a lot of memories, and it does not matter we are awake or asleep.…
A. Exploring the Unconscious i. Freud used free association, in which he told the patient to relax and say whatever came to mind. ii. Called his treatment techniques psychoanalysis iii. Beneath our awareness is the larger unconscious mind with its thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories. 1.…
Although there are a lot of arguments raised against the memory theory, I believe personal…
Two cognitive processes that contrast but also compare would be Deep Processing and Shallow processing. Deep processing is basically determined to result in long term memory, as Shallow processing is most likely to end up as short term memory. Deep processing uses semantics to create an understanding and a storage of memory. You will more likely remember something that you deep processed, hence you figured out meaning, purpose, etc. Shallow processing is not as durable as deep processing because it quickly leads to a extreme or rapid decay.…
Phineas Gage. An unusually fit man, with an iron build brimming with fortitude. A man with the smarts to find a problem, and the strength to solve it. Yet he was the embarrassment of the family, the man who never held his tongue. The man who could not hold a job anywhere, and did not care for anyone besides himself.…
The psychology field has debated about the concept of repressed and recovered memories. The biggest contest comes from two major standpoints: repressed memories are a safety mechanism by the body or that they are implanted by an outside source (Geraerts, 2009). The strongest side seems to come for the “debunking” of this medical phenomenon. It has been shown many times of therapists…
My memories are my own to explore, to learn from, to play with and shape. The subjectivity of memory by all means supports the claim that our memory is an unreliable way of knowing. As part of her research into the reliability of memory that she mentions in the TED talk, Loftus discovered how easily memories can be created and investigated the ways in which memories could be modified by techniques of…
Does your mood affect your memory? People think that your memories are based on how significant they are to you. The memory of those events depended on your mood during that time. If your in a positive mood it brings back positive memories, and visa versa. The study on human memory goes back at least 2,000 years ago to when Aristotle attempted to understand memory.…
The biological approach to memory attempts to link psychological functions to specific brain areas. Scoville and Mill (1957) studied memory loss and discovered that the most dramatic cases came from individuals who had been brain damaged – either accidentally or through surgery. In one instance a man named Henry Molaison (referred to as HM) suffered very severe epilepsy in the 1950s. As it was not possible to overcome…
In "The Art of Failure" Article; Malcolm Gladwell, the author, discussed that there are differences between panicking and choking (Gladwell, 2000). The author also considers that both panicking and choking is as bad as giving up and that they are also seen as failures (Gladwell, 2000). Choking is to be overwhelmed and under pressure. In fact, choking is a sense of overthinking. In contrast to choking, panicking is having that feeling of being underestimated and unfocused.…
Episodic memory refers to specific events in someone’s memory that have occurred in the life of the individual, whereas Semantic memory refers to the knowledge about the world, facts, general knowledge that does not directly relate to a person, but could still be a part of their life experience. Semantic memory usually doesn’t involve the role of the amygdala, because it is facts and figures. In episodic memory, the amygdala plays the role of adding an emotional aspect to the memory. . Figure2 Leonard Shelby could be compared to the case of H.M. H.M’s case led to the discovery that the hippocampus is not the place of permanent memory storage, but does played a role in the transfer of information (memories) from short term into long-term memory. Because of the lack of transfer from short term to long term, sufferers may therefore repeat comments or questions several times and forget people who they met after the trauma in a matter of minutes, as Shelby does numerous times throughout…
MRI scanning shows damage to the hippocampus and some of the frontal regions. His ability to perceive what he saw and heard was unimpaired. But he did not seem to be able to retain any impression of anything for more than a few blink. In he did blink, his eyelids parted to reveal a new scene.…