Declarative memory

important part of a human’s life; it rejuvenates our energy levels, helps with mental processing, and lastly helps with memory and memory retention. Memories are essential any living being. Remembering where the car keys are or remembering meaningful thoughts are what help us connect ideas, thoughts, or things together. Therefore, if we study the connections of sleep and memory this could improve the way we retain information. That there are other variable that could help improve the way we…

Valentin 7 Memory Psychologists aspire to understand the mind by observing, describing, explaining, predicting, and controlling certain behaviors within their field of study (Rathus). Several theories and perspectives will use memory as the basis of many different psychological theories and perspectives. For example, both John B. Watson?s Behaviorism and the, later created, learning perspective posit that the basis of behavior stems from accumulating knowledge, or learning, over time.…

Our memories are valuable. All over the world, people work and live to make good ones. Not only are they cherished, but without them, we wouldn’t be able to learn skills, language, and information. Thankfully, our brains specialize in the area of making and recalling memories. In order to make a memory, we have to “encode, store, and retrieve information.” (200) Between these three stages of processing information, our brains contain many types of memory. The first stage that our brains go…

sleep most of the time. We also try to make as many memories as possible before the real world hits us and we have to grow up. Sometimes we think of memories as an exact copy of what happened during the time that memory was formed. We feel like we can describe everything that took place, who was there, what time it was, and what the weather was like. But when we tell these memories to people who are with us when they happen, sometimes the memories don’t match up. According to Lo, Chong, Ganesan,…

software programs which are designed to improve memory use a prior established principle of distributed practice also known as “spaced repetition”. Distributed practice entails repeated analysis of new material. 17) If a person were to state that flashbulb memories are 100% accurate recollections of important events, I myself would bring up the argument that flashbulb memories also experience the same alterations and deteriorations as every other type of memory and are not always perfect. 18)…

Kenny Lopez 12/10/14 I selected the research article titled “Exercise training increases size of hippocampus and improves memory,” since it provided answers to my questions about Alzheimer’s disease. This article discusses the idea that as people age, the part of the brain that is responsible for forming, organizing, and storing our memories called the hippocampus, shrinks and deteriorates. As a result, people are susceptible to developing Dementia, which causes episodes of forgetfulness.…

“Memory is the process in which we encode, store and retrieve information. Memory is the process in which we encode, store and retrieve information. Memory is the process in which we encode, store and retrieve information.” (Feldman, Robert S. "The Foundations of Memory." Psychology and Your Life. N.p.: McGraw-Hill Learning Solutions, n.d. 200.) As I put the flash cards away, I attempted to recite the definition of memory in hopes of memorizing it. “Memory is the process in which we……. storage,…

Memory is often defined as the processing, storage and retrieval of information acquired through learning. Essentially, memory is a neurological representation of some prior event or experience. Although there are other ways of defining memory, all descriptions typically refer to memory as requiring and therefore involving three fundamental processes: encoding, storage and retrieval. In the 1960’s with the introduction of the computer, many psychologists described these processes using the…

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…

Memory Structures Amnesia is a partial or total loss of memory. It is usually caused after an event causing brain damage and has 2 major symptoms. The first, anterograde amnesia, is the inability to learn new, explicit information after trauma. The second, retrograde amnesia, is the inability to retrieve explicit information from time prior to trauma, with a temporal grading, meaning newer memories are more susceptible to loss (Psych 240 Lecture, 10-15-14). Amnesia has been the focus of…