1) Describe one mnemonic device and give an example of how it might be used. The method of Loci is when you use images to help recall information from memory. This method uses location and landmarks to be able to recall certain things. For example I use this when needing to remember where certain things are. I visualize a house and if I need to remember where my keys are, I remember everything that I may touch on my daily routine.…
Immediate memory is a subset of working memory, and is also called the “mental scratchpad” (class notes). These abilities continue to mature throughout adolescence – when it is at its peak – and early adulthood but begin to decline as adults get older (Gluck, Mercado, Myers, 2014). Age-related improvement in working memory reflects, in part, exposure to and familiarity with what is being remembered; the more familiar an individual is with presented material, the more efficient their processing of the information (Gluck, Mercado, Myers, 2014). As adults get older, their processing speed declines, which may be evidenced by comparing average digit-span scores of children with older adults (7 vs 6, respectively) (Gluck, Mercado, Myers, 2014).…
These indicate that non-cognitive traits are more influential to females than to…
"These are the flowers we bought this morning, the dahlias tossed on his grave and bells waiting with their tongues cut out for this particular silence. " I believe his quote falls under second degree. To me, First degree would be top notch, the best of the best. Second is good, and their is bad. This small piece of literature is different from any other piece I've seen, that is why I chose it.…
Immediate verbal memory was in the average range and immediate visual memory was in the low average range for designs and mildly impaired range for picture task. Delayed semantic/episodic memory as measured by story recall and list learning tasks were both in the mildly impaired range; whereas, delayed scores on the visual tasks as noted by recognition scores were in the impaired range. Picture Memory Recognition score was in the mildly to moderately impaired range; whereas, Design Recognition scores was in the moderately to severely impaired range. A significant difference between General Memory and General Recognition was noted.…
The experimental and control groups conducted the verbal recall (people subtest), visual recall (shapes subtest), verbal recognition (names subtest), and visual recognition (doors subtest) subtests of The Doors and People Test to determine whether or not any significant differences between the two existed. When the scores of the two groups were compiled and fixed to accommodate age, the…
A recent observational study have reported the stone gathering and throwing chimpanzee in zoo suggest humans are not the only ones who can plan for future. In Osvath’s (2010) study, they observed repeated episodes of male chimpanzee named Santino, making piles of stone and picking up a stone and chuck it toward the crowd, causing it to disperse. They found that Santino plans ahead for how he will react to the visitors’ approach to his compound, and that is inconsistent with interpretations that he cached the stones for some other reason and then just happened to have them at hand when he got mad (Osvath, 2010). By hiding the stones and then trying to deceive zoo visitors into thinking that his intentions were peaceful, Osvath (2010)…
Henry M. grew up just outside of Hartford, Connecticut and was known as a young man with an above average intelligence. Some of his favorite activities were ice-skating, listening to detective shows on the radio, and he enjoyed figuring out what would happen in the detective shows before it was released. On his sixteen birthday, Henry had his very first grand mal seizure. Then after that day, the seizures started appearing more often. In 1953, he was experiencing up to as many as eleven seizures a week.…
Men and women have different ways that they process information starting with the huge difference between gray matter and white matter in the brain. Men utilize about seven times more gray matter in the brain while women utilize ten times more white matter. This translates to the way we process information because gray matter is more task-oriented and white matter is used more for a connection between different processing centers in the brain meaning that the female brain uses a type of bridgework that is used for multi-tasking. White matter and gray matter differences explain why men can focus on the mastership of a task while women are more multi-task oriented. In addition to the matter differences, there is also structural differences including…
Gender Differences in Memory for Object and Word Location Why are men better at map reading than women? And why are women better at recalling routes and recognizing objects location? According to Postma and Maartje (2007), they define object location as the cognitive ability that allows individuals to recall specific objects, and functions in everyday life. Object location aides us remembering where we left certain items such as water bottle, cellphone, or keys and in explaining our environment, for instance identifying the location of mechanical equipment in the garage. Object location memory tasks usually instruct participants to make decisions about an array of objects each with a specific location.…
Dementia is a decline in cognitive functions that can affect somebody’s daily living habits in varying degrees. One of the most prevalent symptom is memory retention and learning impairments. There are three types of memory systems that dementia can wreak havoc upon throughout its progression. One is episodic memory and it deals with short term recollection. Another type is semantic memory which is basic knowledge such as road signs.…
A Vivid Memory Imagine this. Roaring crowds, speakers blasting, wailing guitar solos. Hold on, Let's back up, we aren’t at there yet. By there I mean the Imagine Dragons concert. Travel back to June 2017 when Halle, Allie, and I are in Lake Powell.…
Memory plays an important role in people’s everyday lives. It allows people with tasks such as going to the shop and remembering everything they need to buy, or where and when they’ve to be somewhere for a meeting. Memory can be explained by using two psychological approaches: Biological and Cognitive.…
Although brains cannot be distinctively categorized as male brains and female brains, there are some minor differences between them and there are certain characteristics that are more prominent in males and some characteristics more in females. These differences can be seen when the foetus is around 26 weeks. Men’s brains are supposed to be larger in size, but both male and female brains are said to be the same size in proportion to their bodies and are equally intelligent and have the ability to carry out the same tasks. A 2014 study of 949 people found that men's brains had more connections within each brain hemisphere, whereas women's brains had more between connections between hemispheres.…
The participants’ scores demonstrated the number each had answered correctly. As assumed, the results showed that male’s outperformed females with the ratio of correct answers bring 24.5 to 16.6. Neural measure tests showed gender differences in gray matter volume (the rostrum, and the anterior midbody); however, no differences in white matter volume or corpus callosum length. They also concluded that the rostrum and the anterior midbody are correlated with mental rotation. In conclusion, the results of this study show that when looking for sex differences in the brain one has to control for cognitive ability.…