A retrieval cue is a stimulus that assist in the recall or recognition of information stored in memory. The presence of retrieval cues can make memory retrieval much easier by accessing memories stored in long-term memory and bringing them to your conscious awareness. However, the ability to effectively retrieve these cues depends on the extent to which an individual could tap into the information that was encoded at the time of learning. For instance, while you are out shopping, you ran into a female acquaintance who hugs you and proceeds to tell you all about her day and weekend. Although you know her, but you cannot remember her name or where you knew her from.…
One of those theories is that during sleep our bodies are resting our muscles or recuperating and our brains go through a sort of restoration process. Another theory is focused on “brain processing and memory consolidation”. As stated by Russell Foster, “after you've tried to learn a task, and you sleep-deprive individuals, the ability to learn that task is smashed”. Sleep deprivation studies have shown that when a subject is deprived of his/her sleep for a period of time they are more likely have mood swings, reaction times are disrupted, their perception can be off, mental abilities can be disrupted along with complex motor skills, (Bonnet, 2005).…
The Hippocampus is a part of the brain in the Limbic System. This part is where long-term memory is stored. If this part becomes dysfunctional in any given person, he or she will be unable to form long-term memories. Therefore, that person will only have short term memory that will not change to long-term during sleep, so he or she will lose any new memories gained throughout the day. A case study that was done on this phenomenon in the 1950’s was done on Henry Molaison.…
Studies such as Tucker at al 2006 have found that slow wave sleep may be important in strengthening declarative memories. Declarative memories refer to the memory of facts, events and…
Popular sayings can reflect the notion that remolded memories produce new creative associations in the morning, and that performance often improves after a time-interval that includes sleep. Current studies demonstrate that a healthy sleep produces a significant learning-dependent performance boost. The idea is that sleep helps the brain to edit its memory, looking for important patterns and extracting overarching rules which could be described as 'the gist', and integrating this with existing memory.…
Just imagine this scene. You are a senior in college and it is your last finals before graduating to get your diploma. Two weeks left and you are looking for the best solution on how to not only study but also be able to recall the information that you are going over. So you try to look for the answer and do so through a psychological viewpoint. Psychologists recommend that sleep is the key to retaining information.…
Laura Schocker said after one night you are “less focused and having memory problems. Being exhausted zaps your focus, and can render you more forgetful… On top of that, sleep is thought to be involved in the process of…
To the average adult, seven hours of sleep is enough to rest the mind and the body, however throughout the day many people choose to take naps. Sleep enhances subject’s memory of specific activities that occurred throughout the day. Lau (2011) conducted a study where the importance of taking a nap was assessed. He hypothesized that the participants who napped performed better than those who did not. I agree with Lau’s hypothesis because without sleep, the mind is distracted from daily learning by only thinking of going to sleep.…
InAbnormal psychology: Clinical perspectives on psychological disorders(Updated, 4th ed., p. 413). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill. Hot, P., Rauchs, G., Bertran, F., Denise, P., Desgranges, B., Clochon, P., & Eustache, F. (2011). Changes in sleep theta rhythm are related to episodic memory impairment in early Alzheimer's disease.…
Encoding, storage, and retrieval are all processes involved in remembering something. For instance, let’s say that I was studying for my music appreciation class. I would have to recognize what an instrument looks like and how they sound. For that new information to register, I will be going through acoustic coding and visual coding process by encoding. Next, when we think about storage, where the information is stored.…
Normal memory changes include mild changes in a person’s episodic memory. Episodic memory are memories that you are able to remember from a specific point in time. Since you would have to remember an event from the past specifically, it is normal for an older adult to forget. These could be dates of a child’s graduation or the day you gave birth. My mom is only 60 and she has 4 children so it is hard for her to remember the exact day of our birthdays.…
The Internet has made it very easy look up whatever we need. The Internet has become the latest source of transactive memory. In a study conducted at Columbia University, scientists have found that “the internet is changing the nature of what we remember, making us more likely to recall where the facts are rather than the facts themselves” (Sparrow, Liu, and Wegner). All of the data on the World Wide Web is not “overwhelming,” but what is overwhelming is our inability to store and use it properly. We do not try to memorize information as much anymore because we can easily look up the information that we need.…
Memory is something that we all use in our daily lives. The way it helps us is by giving us the information that we need in which was received and stored in. The way that I can use specific memory to improve my study skills is by planning ahead of time, use known information that is relatable, and organize a concept. And those strategies will help me to improve the way that I encode, store, and retrieve information that I have stored in memory.…
Sleep strengthens our memory and embeds the things that we have learned throughout the day and into our memory. When one is sleepy the inability to focus and concentrate weakens memory. The sharp wave ripples in the human brain are used to help consolidate memory making things one has learned easy to access. Cutting out a lot of deep sleep hurts the memory, and can lead to excessive forgetfulness. Anything learned during the day is converted into memories during the night.…
To be able to create a computer which will be more like a human, the humans should be focusing on developing some input devices for perception, processor and memories to be able to store information like a human, software to perform, output devises to replace human hands and feet, permanently storage device and network for communication. Just creating all of this wouldn’t be enough. Inventors should be more focusing on a human sensors and perception which is very hard to program into a computer. Computers have been designed in the way to be able to get their information from human. Computers needed their input devices in order to be able to adapt and use human movements for perception while output devises can use three to five human senses.…