Summary I gain a lot of insight and learning from going through the process of identifying a student, getting to know them, administering a variety of assessments, writing about and interpreting the test results, researching interventions and supports, and making recommendations based on all of the information collected. My two main takeaways are that I had some difficulties with Woodcock Johnson IV assessment and that I significantly changed my mind about the pedagogy of math. I struggled with administering and interpreting the Woodcock Johnson IV. While I was administering the test it was difficult to just follow the script and not prompt the student to think about the question longer or review their work before they had a final answer.…
What do you do with your thoughts? A long time ago, there was no paper to scribe thoughts onto or computers to record them. There was nothing to do with thoughts, but remember them. Anything worth preserving had to be preserved in memory. In the essay, “The End of Remembering” by Joshua Foer, memory is an important issue.…
Another example is of a Psychologist, Carol S. Dweck, who took a team and gave hundreds of fifth graders IQ tests, later, one group…
Moonwalking with Einstein: The art and Science of Remembering is a nonfiction book based on many cases of people with spectacular memories by Joshua Foer. The reader gets to learn about all of these cases where events or environment has caused someone to increase their memory or decrease their memory. I learned about all of these cases of incredible memory like Daniel or Kim Peek who inspired the 1988 academy award winning movie Rain Man. He was a savant who could not use logic or reasoning but any trivia fact or math problem he would be able to do. “Members of the audience had been invited to try to stump him with obscure trivia (anything but “logic or reasoning questions.”…
Review of Literature Thousands of people participate in brain taxing assessments every day. Most people rely solely on hours of studying to get an acceptable grade, but what if something as simple as chewing gum could improve memorization? Many studies over the years can show that chewing gum can affect how effective your brain is at memorizing information. Chewing gum can be known to speed up the brain by get more blood flow to the brain. The effect can cause the brain to warm up quicker and recall what it needs to remember (Abel “Does Chewing Gum Affect," n.d.).…
In order to test this hypothesizes Chan, Thomas, and Bulevich conducted an experiment where they compared the recall performance…
I did read in this article that the researchers believed they main problem of this study was the ongoing changes from the different groups of cards made it difficult for the younger children to fully understand what was asked of them. I can see this being a problem because the children might get confused as to what they are suppose to d even though the researcher presented them with all the materials they needed. Going from different color cards can confuse them because they might not be able to multitask as easy as older children and adults do. The children will learn how to do this one-day, but until then this study might not be for them. As the adults did the tests they were able to understand what was being asked of them and able to comprehend the cards being placed in front of them.…
For example, children, adults, teenagers, people with dyslexia, people with dementia, and people with different reading abilities each fall into a group of people with the same characteristics. People are put into these groups in order to compare the data and results gathered by the stroop test more accurately than comparing stroop test results from random groups of people. Research shows that reaction time to Stroop tasks decreases systematically from early childhood through early adulthood. These changes suggest that speed of processing increases with age and that cognitive control becomes increasingly efficient. Moreover, this research strongly suggests that changes in these processes with age are very closely associated with development in working memory and various aspects The Stroop effect is one of the most well-studied findings in experimental psychology(Stroop, 1935).…
and, “How is MY working memory?.” Doolittle then chooses to address the audience by asking them if they’d like to play a game. As opposed to speaking in front of the audience, Doolittle chooses to speak to the audience which makes the speech less of a speech and more of a conversation. Doolittle then makes the decision to engage the audience in a test of their working memory. The speaker could have used charts to relay the same information that the audience would find by testing their memory, but…
This was an experimental study looking at whether chewing has an effect on attention and cognitive processing speed. Specialists had two groups of 20 individuals each listen to a 30-minute recording that included a succession of numbers. After listening, the members were asked to recall the succession. However, one of the groups chewed gum while the other did not.…
Most of their tasks were to recognize numbers. However, some of them were struggling with the memory; they easily forgot the numbers they just learned couple minutes ago. I applied the CIM to help them learn the numbers and reinforce their memory. To some extent, their…
The brain is a complex organ made up of many intricate systems that work together simaltaneously to optimize a person’s survival and success in the world. Each system is intelligent and works by using a series of procedures to complete tasks that range from difficult to elementary. Memory is one of the most important structures humans rely on. The Pixar film, Inside Out helps depict the science behind memory and show just how monumentally imperitive it is. Inside Out demonstrates how the three different processes of memory: encoding, storage, and retrieval are vitialy critical to all living things.…
The numbers I was able to remember correctly in my second attempt at the memory game where 0,9,7 3,2,6,3,7,7,4,0. The mnemonic device I used to remember these numbers was the major system. The major system pairs numbers from 0-9 with letters from the alphabet 0–S, Z 1-T, D 2-N 3-M 4-R 5-L 6-G 7-K 8-F, V 9- P, B this system works by incorporating words into remembering numbers. For example for the first three digits I remembered in the memory game 0, 9, 7 I turned them into the word, SPiKe corresponding numbers with letters to make a word, using the major system will supposedly make remembering numbers easier my incorporating words, and sounds into it. In my case the major system somewhat helped me remember the numbers from the memory game…
Classical music is more harmonic while rock music is more rhythmic. Rhythmic music makes listeners more passionate, raising adrenaline, while harmonic music makes listeners more contemplative. Studies have shown that exposure to rock music causes learning and memory retention problems because the rhythm acts in the same way a drug do. However, the brain does create a strong association between rock music and what is happening visually when you hear the song. So, regardless of conditions, when you hear a rock music song, your brain will automatically associate it with the first time you heard it (Heathman,…
Their findings contrasted that of Whorf and suggested that the effect of colour memory, if any, is weak. Wright used an increased sample size compared to previous studies, but tested participants less. Although this study used less trials, non-supporting findings could means that the results are not as generalisable as previously stated. Wright went on further to criticise name strategy, or as he called it, direct labelling theory. It is suggested that direct labelling theory would cause errors in trials of cross category stimuli to be less than within category as there are already memorised verbal labels.…