My Happiest Memory Essay

What to a human is a memory? If you asked someone what a memory is to them, you may get different responses out of each person that you ask. For the person whose childhood was fulfilling, a memory is going to the park and reminiscing on one’s past. However, for the person whose childhood was nothing but torture and despair, a memory to this person may be remembering their high school experience and how they were bullied every day. No matter how we look at it, a memory is a memory, whether good…

Memories can help one go back into the past, maybe as a child, a rebellious teenager, or as a maturing adult. The two texts “Once More to the Lake” by E.B. White, and “Forgetfulness” by Billy Collins explores this topic in their writing, developing a common theme that memories are an important part of every person. For instance, Collins writes about how people tend to forget many memories over time without realizing it, such as books they had once read, or math that they haven’t used in a while.…

Memory is imperfect and susceptible to suggestion. It is because of this fact that dissociative amnesia (repressed-recovered memories) is such a contested matter, particularly when it is being used as grounds for a court case. Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Harrison Pope took it upon himself and his team at the Biological Psychiatry Lab at Harvard-affiliated McLean Hospital to find out whether or not dissociative amnesia is present in written works throughout history. Under the umbrella of…

Memories have a major influence on everyone. They can define who someone is, alter memories, or be good/bad things that are remembered. In the memory play, The Glass Menagerie, the character’s memories are either inaccurate or altered because something was too painful so it needed to be blocked out which could cause new memories to form. A memory can be affected by emotion, which causes people to forget or exclude some parts of a memory. A question that is constantly asked is “Can emotion…

Alexis Fry Dr. Larson October 23rd, 2017 Does Color affect Memory? We correlate color with emotions in our everyday lives. We see red and think bad such as a grade on a test, we see yellow and think caution, blue could be interpreted as sad or calming, green is happy, black is neutral, and so on. While color can evoke an emotional response, can it affect memory? This is what I have decided to further research for my independent study. I hypothesize that when administered a list of items and…

Term Memory. Through the researching process, psychologists define there are four types of long term memory which are divided into two main groups: Explicit and implicit. Explicit memory can be explained as aware memories, something that we have been experienced and stored in our memory consciously. On the other hand, the information like how to do tasks, knowledge, or feeling about some certain things is called implicit memory. In “explicit memory,” there are two major types: episodic memory…

The memory works in a process of three stages- encoding, storage and retrieval. This enables humans to learn new material, store the material and then retrieve and extract it at a later date when necessary (Eysenck & Keane, 2010). However, many psychologists have researched the effect of emotion on these stages of memory processing. Many have been interested in the idea of emotion affecting the ability to accurately retrieve past events due to many alternating factors. Some argue that matching…

the volunteer to act like a duck. The volunteer had no idea why they were doing this, and I found it to be quite funny. After reading the chapter I found that hypnosis can be a powerful tool in psychology. It could benefit one’s physical abilities, memory, help with amnesia, pain relief, and with sensory changes. The problem with this is that not everyone is susceptible to hypnosis. “About 75 percent of people can be hypnotized, but only 40 percent will be good hypnotic participants” (Coon &…

especially working memory. Many college students read, do homework or prepare for exams while listening to music. Background music is an important environmental factor in our learning context that may have impact on our attention span and later recall of information. However, whether background music serves as a distractor or enhancer on memory remain an open question. Some studies suggest that long-term music training positively related to improvements in working memory. For example,…

Cognitive psychology is a branch of psychology with mental processes such as perception, thinking, learning, and memory. The first recognition of the field of cognitive psychology was George Mandler, in 1964 upon creating a facility known as the Center for Human Information Processing (Kiderra, 2016). The “cognitive revolution” fifty years ago sparked new ideas about the way people thought about the mind. Without cognitive psychology, psychologists would still believe the brain was a random mass…