Emotion and memory

Summarize: This article examines the effects of acute exercise on long-term memory. They assessed for memory by using a paragraph recall, in which participants listened to two paragraphs and then had to recall them 35 minutes later. Participants were randomly assigned to one of three groups: exercise prior to exposure, exercise after exposure, or no-exercise. The participants included 48 young adults recruited from the University of North Carolina-Greensboro campus. There were 15 men and 33…

“A false memory is a mental experience that is mistakenly taken to be a veridical representation of an event from one’s personal past. Memories can be false in relatively minor ways and in major ways that have profound implications for oneself and others” (Psychology of False Memories, 2001). In simpler terms, this definition means a false memory is the recollection of an event that did not actually happen. The purpose of this assignment is to show if the five subjects tested demonstrate the…

After watching the related videos on questioning and memory of eye witnesses I have learned that the witnesses play a huge part in determining who they saw at the scene of the crime. People have been wrongfully accused of crimes that they did not commit just because they have some of the same features as the actual suspect. The courts see eye witness testimony as a crucial factor into determining who has committed the crime. One way that humans tend to memorize things is by seeing the…

We all know that memory can be a very confusing topic to understand. Nevertheless, it is a very interesting topic. In certain studies that will be discussed further ahead, they talk about how memories are always disrupted when it comes to thinking or remembering certain things. These studies have been tested over many years but, the results may not always be certain. My group and I plan to reenter the topic of memory to find out how false memories come to be. It is important that we be able to…

Beside repeated questioning, another procedure that eyewitness most likely will have to go through is face identification. There has been a debate whether it is more accurate to identify suspect through photograph or in person. A study by Megreya and Burton examined the effect of method used in identification process (2008). The study consists of two experiments; experiment 1 assessed how accurate people can remember unfamiliar face immediately after the presence. The study involved 92…

1. This experiment compared the spatial selective attention between “neurologically normal young adults” and split-brain subjects by measuring response times when presented unilateral and bilateral visual arrays. 2. The purpose for this experiment was to gather information about spatial selective attention, and to investigate whether “an independent focus of attention is deployed by each surgically separated hemisphere in a visual search task, such that bilateral stimulus arrays can be scanned…

Proactive Inhibition shows that Short-Term Memory and Long-Term Memory are not as different as once believed. – Author’s Goal: The author wanted to isolate components within the primary memory and secondary memory to decipher if either were susceptible to Proactive Inhibition. – Hypotheses: If there were more than seven obstacles then the recall is believed to be from the secondary memory, but if less than seven obstacles recall would be from the primary memory. • Experiment 1 (5 pts.) –…

In an article written by Alan Kingstone, Chris Friesen, and Michael Gazzaniga they are discussing a study about gaze reflection and reflexive joint attention. They used two similar people to conduct multiple experiments to test out their hypothesis. In the article, Reflexive Joint Attention Depends on Lateralized Cortical Connections, their hypothesis was that the reflexive attention in response to gaze direction correlates with the hemisphere specialized for processing faces. The people used…

Three Reasons to Have Your Film and Tape Recordings Converted to a Digital Format If you have any film or tape that contains footage of events that are important to you, it is a good idea to have them converted to a digital format. There are many reasons for doing this. The following are a few of the reasons that should give you motivation to take action as soon as possible. Your equipment will not last forever There has been a lot of different technology used in the past for recording on…

Recently Bournemouth University's Doctor Sarah Bates and Anna Bobak have found that people called "super-recognizers" outperformed control participants in a face matching test. The two researchers believe that super-recognizers could play a large role in security settings and jobs such as border control. Super-recognizers have exceptional face recognition skills, just as the name implies. Matching faces with old documents, or spotting a specific face in a crowd can be difficult and error-filled…