My Childhood Memories Essay

Psychological Processing Strengths: Various processing areas were assessed using a variety of measures related to cognition and memory, executive functioning and behavior and academic performance. Jasmine’s WISC-V processing speed index score fell along the low average range. Jasmine showed strengths with using her short-term visual memory. She was able to quickly, visually, scan a page and match corresponding symbols to their assigned numbers, as well as, visually discriminate whether or not…

Memory is essential to all our cognitive activities as we use memory to retrieve and maintain information after certain period of time. Advance technologies such as computers and mobile phones have significantly reduced the mental arithmetic skill. Nevertheless, memory is still an important part, which makes us human. Memory allows us to remember countless information such as names, personal experiences and general facts about the world. As well as that, we can have memory of different senses…

physiological arousal can cause a marked impairment in eyewitness recall and identification. Deffenbacher had hypothesized that when high levels of cognitive anxiety and increasing levels of somatic anxiety will result in improvement of memory until there is a drop in memory performance. In order to start this test it was divided into two parts. First they asked twenty employees from a store to give their normal heart rates as a baseline for the research. This data was used as a baseline for the…

Lumosity is a very well known app with multiple games for different places of the brain. The materials I used for the experiment was a notebook, pen, a watch to time, an easy and short fifty word essay, and participants. The volunteers that were used in my experiment were Dexter Blissard, Madison Laney, and Jackson Harrell.…

Eliezer “Elie” Wiesel, a political activist and professor stated “Without memory there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no emotion, no society, and no future.” Our memories allow us to filter, imagine, preserve, share, and develop our experiences with others and to ourselves. Sometimes we may not fully be aware or conscious of what has taken place and others times it can feel as if our memory is playing tricks on us, by creating events that seem very real but has never taken place.…

In the article by (multiple authors) wanted to test whether memory and imagination where independent functions. Similarly it is believed that imagining the future depends on the ability to retrieve episodic details from past experiences in order to build a novel experience. Both memory and imaging functions are known to be carried out in the hippocampus so the researchers wanted to know whether the hippocampus could distinguish between remembering the past and imaging the future. To address…

There is a rudimentary notion that memory can store an exact copy of information like a video camera and it could be easily and precisely recalled at a persons will. Cortical processes could distort memory as the cortical network that capitalizes on such contextual information is suggested to connect the portrayal of related objects such that visually perceiving an object will activate the visual representations of related objects. For example when one sees a fork they would link it…

Introduction Attention is a complicated concept that refers to what information in our environment is processed. According to many psychologists, objects in the world are only processed if our attention is focused there, meaning many objects can be missed. One phenomenon that explains why we ‘miss’ certain objects is due to inattentional blindness. Inattentional blindness is where attention is focused on a certain task and unexpected objects that appear in our visual field may not be noticed…

INTRODUCTION Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is a form of dementia that affects the brain and is most common in older age adults. People with AD most commonly experience symptoms such as an inability to complete activities of daily living (ADL’s) independently while also exhibiting signs of mental decline, most likely due to loss in brain mass associated with the progression of AD (Vreugdenhil, Cannell, Davies, & Razay, 2011). As prevalence of AD increases along with the cost of healthcare, new…

character sets and distractor tasks having lower recall rates, however, they were not sufficient enough to prove that the results happened by chance. Current research by Chiu & Egner (2015) show that the results indicated that switching tasks, reduce memory for distractors, and that when presented with focusing on the distractor tasks reduces encoding the previous information. Although, the results to the current study correspond with the findings of Gronau, Cohen, & Ben-Shakhar (2009). The…