Our expectations, experiences, and current knowledge all affect how memories are created. Many people do not realize how flawed our memory can be. The largest component of our memory is called autobiographical memory, it is a collection of memories that can describe our past. Autobiographical memory includes both episodic and semantic memory. For example, we can remember hiking in the Smokey mountains, seeing all the trees and remembering some of the conversations we had with friends (episodic memory) ; It might also include how you traveled to the Smokey mountains (by plane or car) or a list of your hiking gear and the time of day you hiked (semantic memory).…
DeMaster, Pathman, Lee, and Ghetti (2014) found age-related differences in volumes of the hippocampal head, body, and tail, in children and young adults. They reported that better performance on an episodic memory task in adults was related to a smaller right hippocampal head and larger hippocampal body. However, in children between the ages of 8-11 years old, performance was related to a larger left hippocampal tail, suggesting that development of hippocampal subregions contributes to age-related differences in episodic memory. Relations between hippocampal volume and age-related differences in episodic memory should be observed during early childhood because the hippocampus is changing rapidly during that period and at the same time improvement in episodic memory is also occurring. In a report examining…
701). Scientifically, autobiographical memory is known as hyperthymesia, and patients naturally recall vivid memories…
Knowing our brains have the ability to store years of knowledge and ability to retrieve it when needed is pretty impressive. The actual process of retrieving information is the same but the type of memories you retrieve vary. Like remembering on the day of my eighth birthday party I walked into my home to find my aunt dressed up in a really crappy clown costume. That kind of memory where I recollect my life experiences would be an example of autobiographical memory. Or when I think of the day my niece was born and how I can remember being in the waiting room for hours sitting in an uncomfortable chair, watching some boring golf tournament, surrounded by the hospital smell.…
A very interesting topic, repressed memories. A topic that is complex and very hard to proove and yet hard to discredit. While I am sure this is a situation that does happen, it probably is less common than has been reported. The main focus in this article seems to be oriented around child abuse memories being repressed.…
1) What is autobiographical memory? What does it mean to say that it includes both episodic and semantic components? Autobiographical memories are memories from life experiences that are collected throughout time. It is consisted of both episodic which are specific events that had occurred within people’s lives and semantic memories are the actual facts related to the specific events.…
Seven different ways we remember things fall under the seven sins of memory, which are stored in our memory. Our memories are not one hundred percent what we think all the time. The things we see, hear, taste, smell and think or even dream can all be changed with one getting confused on daily basics, or something happening too often. You can also have an over occurring memory such as something embarrassing and it keeps playing over in ones mind. Even something someone believe so hard to be true really could just be ones mind being bias.…
(Smith) If a recounted memory is never going to be exact interpretation of the past, then memory is an intangible quality that can be explain through a number of ways. For example, individual memory or personal memory is a direct experience that originates from a single person. A French socialist Maurice Halbwachs analyzed and attributed memories, creating the term collective memory; where memory is shared between multiple…
Combine a smoldering hot day that’s well over one hundred degrees, the suns blinding light high above the sky, and fields of peppers that range from different colors like red and yellow, to make one of the most vivid childhood memories that I still remember perfectly to this day. I was almost nine years old the first time I went hand in hand with my dad into work to pick my first harvest. Within the first hour of work after only filling a few baskets of peppers, I could already feel my muscles begin to burn and beads of sweat roll down my face. It was then, that I looked at my dad and saw that he seemed to be as tired as me because I could start to hear him breathe a little heavier and saw his shirt was already drenched in sweat more so then…
The memory view is the view that an individuals personal identity is made up of, and is constituted by their personal memories. These memories are made up of what we can call “genuine memories” and “apparent memories”. The genuine memories are memories that appear to be true, provided the individual did actually experience the memory, or in other words, did in-fact happen to the person and so can be attributed to that individuals identity. The apparent memories, are memories that while according to the individual happened to them, may not have. It also states that a person is defined and made up of a sequence of person-stages linked by memory, as long as those memories are genuine and not apparent (or false memories).…
On 06/01/2018 at approximately 1654 hrs. , I responded to the 100 blk of S Main St in reference to a drunk male without a shirt on harassing people walking while being aggressive. The caller advised the male also cornered two young women of the street and was harassing people in their vehicles. I made contact with the male without a shirt on and identified him as Boyd Douglas Wagner, W/M, DOB 06/23/1975. Wagner had a strong odor of intoxicants coming from his person.…
Repressed memory is defined as an inability to recall important personal information, usually of a traumatic or stressful nature, that is too extensive to be explained by ordinary forgetfulness. This term is sometimes compared to dissociative amnesia. I identified the correct penny by deduction. I knew that on the penny, Lincoln looks to the right, therefore, all the pennies with Lincoln facing left were eliminated. I also knew that there is always a date and ‘Liberty’ written on the front, what I couldn’t remember though was if it read ‘In God We Trust’ or ‘United States of America’ above Lincoln's head.…
Memory and personal identity are an integral part of our lives. These characteristics and traits assist us in the way we make decisions and approach situations. Memory in relation to personal identity is a topic that has been studied by several Philosophers. The question of whether or not memory presupposes identity is a circular one, and therefore makes this question important. To study this, I looked at Parfits theory of Psychological continuity, and how it was seen as problematic due to its circularity.…
What if one of your loved one lost all their memories and not to remember you , Something you would never want to experience in your lifetime or wouldn’t want a loved one to get. It takes away many memories and special moments on someone who's experiencing Amnesia. You can get this disorder from a chronic injury or perhaps even by natural just by itself. This disorder can lead to a very tragic phase to individuals or a group of people who are related to the one who has this disorder.…
Repressed memories are Memories that have been unconsciously blocked due to the memory being associated with an elevated level of stress or trauma. Memories can be forgotten and remembered at a later date. Isn’t that crazy? Crazy but very true. Something so tragic in a person’s life can be blocked and forgotten.…