Encodings

Note-taking has always been a method I have used when learning in a classroom setting, so I chose to see how well this skill transfers to an online environment. Research by Watkins (2015) suggests that the encoding process associated with personalised note-taking improves future information retrieval and has continually been proven to optimise educational outcomes for students. Consequently, the more I practiced this technique, I began to realise that I no…

Throughout time men and women have been assigned different gender roles, or different expectations for males and females that society creates. These roles then influence how we treat males and females. A trend that we have noticed is that mothers are treated differently than men and nonmothers. “Mothers experience disadvantages in the workplace in addition to those commonly associated with gender” (Correll, Bernard, Paik 1297). This trend can be supported by status characteristic theory as well…

notebook analogy fails in many ways. As the psychologist would point out, the notebook does not account for long/short term memories and memory decay. Likewise, the neuroscientist would argue that the notebook may be functionally equivalent to the encoding and recall function of memory, but fails to account for the physiological processes that correlate to memory having behavior. Any accurate account of memory should to take into account contemporary neuroscience and attempt to explain the…

Kelley through her controversially leading question is trying to recreate the state the child was in when the encoding of the specific clown stimulus occurred. The one crucial memory Kelley is trying to retrieve from the child is the episodic memory, which is the memory that is involved in personal events and or episodes. In this the case the child’s memory of the…

I was born into a family with my mother, father and my 6 siblings. We all lived on the family farm and it was a very great experience. My four brothers and I did lots of outside work with my father . However, my sister helped my mother with the inside work and made sure the food was ready for the fellows after a long day of work. Our family grew up i the small town of Tabor City. Tabor City is a small town in southeastern North Carolina. It also border a small South Carolina town called Loris.…

Scott and Brown (2006) used a lexical decision task to study automaticity in notions of leadership with a sample of Canadian undergraduates. They hypothesized that from the period of encoding, women are already at a disadvantage in being viewed as effective leaders due to the fact when considering their leadership abilities, the communal stereotype interferes in information processing. This means that they expected participants to have…

the test, most likely due to the delay of the test. However, when the participants were allowed to study, longhand performed better than laptop note takers. This suggests that people who take notes longhand may have better external storage and encoding functions. It may also…

process begins at the conceptual stage, a message-level representation, which captures the idea the speaker wishes to convey. Then two stages of syntactic (grammatical) processing follow: functional processing and positional processing. Grammatical encoding begins with functional-level processing, which is subdivided…

In order to understand the impact of a traumatic memory from the past on the present we must first understand what memory is. The act of remembering is something we begin to do subconsciously, it is an innate evolutionary feature adapted for survival. Memory is the mental faculty of retaining and recalling past experiences and we use it in our daily lives without realising.Fundamentally, memory represents a change in who we are. Our habits, our ideologies, our hopes and fears are all influenced…

Watson et al (2005) found that an automatic spread of activation from studied words might induce false memories in the DRM paradigm. The activation-monitoring theory (AMT) proposes that the activation and monitoring processes during encoding and retrieval result in the DRM illusion (Sugrue, Strange, Hayne, 2009). According to Roedieger and McDermott (2000), hearing a list of related words causes the unpresented critical lures to be strongly activated in semantic memory. Participants…