Memory
Shannon Bottemer
PSYC-FP3500
Assessment #4- Memory
Capella University
October 2017
Fifty First Dates
Fifty First Dates is about a Veterinarian named Henry that works at Sea Life Park on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. Henry sets out to go sailing one day but his boat breaks down and he is forced to stop at a local café to wait for the Coast Guard. While at the café Henry sees a young woman, named Lucy, making art with her waffles. Henry does not introduce himself, instead he decides to go back to the café the following day to see if she is still there. One of the café workers tells Henry that Lucy suffers from short-term memory loss, also known as anterograde amnesia. Lucy was in an accident with her father when they were returning …show more content…
Learning and memory are two sides of the process of acquiring information, storing it, and using it. The acquisition part is learning, and the storage and accessing of learned information encompass memory. Researchers have come up with a three-stage model for memory storage and those stages are as follows: (1) sensory memory, (2) short-term memory, and (3) long-term memory. Sensory memory, also called sensory register, is the mechanism that performs initial encoding of sensory stimuli and provides brief storage of them. The minute we hear a song our sensory memory starts. This brief storage allows for the attention and coding process starts. Our sensory memory captures a visual, auditory, tactile, or chemical stimulus in a form that our brains can interpret. The visual sensory representation is sometimes called an icon, and the storage mechanism is called iconic storage. For the auditory system, the storage mechanism is called echoic storage, which holds an auditory representation for about three seconds. Sensory memory lasts briefly, and once the information is established it is transferred elsewhere for additional encoding and storage, because if not it will be lost. Once something is captured in our sensory memory, the stimuli will either fade or will be transferred to the …show more content…
The study found that those who had suffered from a traumatic brain injury performed poorly on several tasks that aimed to assess different components of their working memory, mainly on central executive tasks that require a higher level of controlled processing. This article related to the movie Fifty First Dates because the study utilized people that suffered from a traumatic brain incident, just as Lucy has. The second article that I read was about why forgetting occurs in short-term memory. This study did two different experiments that they were hoping can explain the reason why forgetting happens within short-term memory loss. This article relates to the movie Fifty Frist Dates because it is about short-term memory loss, but also because the researchers are trying to figure out what exactly causes the forgetting that happens within short-term memory loss. The third article that I read was about motion repulsion. The people in the study were asked to remember two random dot motion displays and then report on which direction they
Shannon Bottemer
PSYC-FP3500
Assessment #4- Memory
Capella University
October 2017
Fifty First Dates
Fifty First Dates is about a Veterinarian named Henry that works at Sea Life Park on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. Henry sets out to go sailing one day but his boat breaks down and he is forced to stop at a local café to wait for the Coast Guard. While at the café Henry sees a young woman, named Lucy, making art with her waffles. Henry does not introduce himself, instead he decides to go back to the café the following day to see if she is still there. One of the café workers tells Henry that Lucy suffers from short-term memory loss, also known as anterograde amnesia. Lucy was in an accident with her father when they were returning …show more content…
Learning and memory are two sides of the process of acquiring information, storing it, and using it. The acquisition part is learning, and the storage and accessing of learned information encompass memory. Researchers have come up with a three-stage model for memory storage and those stages are as follows: (1) sensory memory, (2) short-term memory, and (3) long-term memory. Sensory memory, also called sensory register, is the mechanism that performs initial encoding of sensory stimuli and provides brief storage of them. The minute we hear a song our sensory memory starts. This brief storage allows for the attention and coding process starts. Our sensory memory captures a visual, auditory, tactile, or chemical stimulus in a form that our brains can interpret. The visual sensory representation is sometimes called an icon, and the storage mechanism is called iconic storage. For the auditory system, the storage mechanism is called echoic storage, which holds an auditory representation for about three seconds. Sensory memory lasts briefly, and once the information is established it is transferred elsewhere for additional encoding and storage, because if not it will be lost. Once something is captured in our sensory memory, the stimuli will either fade or will be transferred to the …show more content…
The study found that those who had suffered from a traumatic brain injury performed poorly on several tasks that aimed to assess different components of their working memory, mainly on central executive tasks that require a higher level of controlled processing. This article related to the movie Fifty First Dates because the study utilized people that suffered from a traumatic brain incident, just as Lucy has. The second article that I read was about why forgetting occurs in short-term memory. This study did two different experiments that they were hoping can explain the reason why forgetting happens within short-term memory loss. This article relates to the movie Fifty Frist Dates because it is about short-term memory loss, but also because the researchers are trying to figure out what exactly causes the forgetting that happens within short-term memory loss. The third article that I read was about motion repulsion. The people in the study were asked to remember two random dot motion displays and then report on which direction they