My Happiest Memory Essay

as accurate as it was once thought to be. In fact, Science magazine reports that eyewitness testimony was the basis for approximately 75 percent of wrongful convictions for murder and rape. It is a common misconception that the human mind recalls memories like a video recorder replaying recorded events. Rather, remembering events is more like putting the pieces of a puzzle together, according…

Pupil dilation What do multiplication problems and a picture of a dead body have in common? Each sight will induce slight and irreversible expansion of the pupils within our eyes. This gives observers a subtle yet obvious signal about our thoughts and feelings. After much research into why our pupils dilate, scientists have known our pupils respond to more than mere changes in the light and also display our mental and emotional changes within. In fact, our pupil dilation correlates with arousal…

fiction novel, tells the story of Elyse and Marshall as they attempt to recover their lost memories and save their town from an evil occultist. The 347 page novel by Phoebe Kitanidis follows the pattern of the hero’s journey in both a mental and physical form as multiple events in the story match the steps in the hero’s journey. One of the first…

Go Dogs Go, not only is memorized into my brain, but is sitting on my bookshelf with tape holding the cover on, and the color of the illustrations fading every day, no longer the color they were. On page 5, I can still notice the cheesy, Cheetos fingerprint, even though my mother always told me to wash my hands after I finished eating, and before reading. Not only did I have memories with your book, I had journeys. Every time I listened to the book or as I mumbled, and stuttered, trying each…

Hebbian theory is a neuroscientific theory on learning and synaptic plasticity. Hebbian learning relates to mirror neurons, as it provides a possible theory as to the emergence of mirror neurons. Mirror neurons are neurons, which fire both when the individual themselves in performing an action, as well as when they view others performing the same action. Evidence of mirror neurons was first discovered by Di Pellegrino, Fadiga, Fogassi, Gallese, and Rizzolatti (1992) in a study of macaque…

In the teachings of Hinduism reincarnation is widely accepted as the process of a dead body’s soul entering into a newborn body and starting a new life. The Bhagavad Gita proclaims, “Just as the soul acquires a childhood body, a youth body, and an old age body during this life; similarly, the soul acquires another body after death…” (The Bhagavad-Gita, 2.13) and also “Just as a person puts on new garments after discarding the old ones; similarly, the living entity or the individual soul acquires…

decaying information occurs once the information is in short term memory if not attended to; this is known as a Late Selection Model (LSM). This slight variation in models leads to very different ideas as to the nature of short-term memory. ESM believe that short term memory is a small store that can only hold Miller’s 7+/-2 capacity and attention is the process to filter the information. However LSM belief that short term memory is much larger but still only has the same resources so stimulus…

techniques to successfully produce a work of art. For my learning project, I chose to learn how to work with and use fondant in decorating cakes. Gaining a better understanding of the process…

briefly discussed. Anterograde amnesia is “a severe loss of the ability to form new episodic and semantic memories” (Gluck, Mercado, Myers, 2014). It is the most noticeable amnesia present in patient H.M. Hippocampal region damage results in difficulty learning new information – especially episodic learning of events and facts (Gluck, Mercado,…

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…