Episodic memory

are based off memories and past emotions. Another factor is the role that gender plays in remembering our dreams. Also, the number of…

and memory. It has been established that there are three important stages in memory; new memories are initially acquired (encoding), become strengthened and reorganized (consolidation), and are finally recalled (retrieval) (Feld and Diekelmann, 2015). Memory is often divided into two categories, declarative and non-declarative. Declarative memory is known to be those memories that are available to conscious recall. Declarative memory is then further divided into semantic and episodic memories.…

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…

tell us that recollection from human memory is not truly reliable. Memory is a complex process that requires full concentration of the brain. If there is a distraction, or simply decay of a memory over time, memories can be forgotten. The first scenario is a short-term memory using visual coding, however, the phone number failed to be recalled because the predominant auditory coding was occupied by the friend who was talking. The second example is a long-term memory by means of familiarity. I…

INTRODUCTION “We are what we remember. If we lose our memory, we lose our identity and our identity is the accumulation of our experiences. When we walk down the memory lane, it can be unconsciously, willingly, selectively, impetuously or sometimes grudgingly. By following our stream of consciousness we look for lost time and things past. Some reminiscences become anchor points that can take another scope with the wisdom of hindsight. ("Walking down the memory lane")”…

1. According to Loftus’ research, memory is changeable, variable and we can reconstruct it over time. We don’t just play back the recorded memory. The process is much more complex that we think it is. However, the most common reason of reconstructing memory is faulty-eye witness memory. People reconstruct memories when inaccurate or misleading information entered their memory brain system and cause an alteration and contamination of the memory. They start to believe that they actually…

can also improve our memory (Dowling & Tillman, 2013). Before music is stored in our memory, it must be processed and categorized in order for us to recall it later. There seems to be a specialized music module that helps us processing the music. Support for the existence of this module comes from people with selective impairments in music abilities after brain damage (Peretz & Coltheart, 2003). They might be…

"Implicit memory is shown when performing on a task is enabled in the absence of conscious remembrance; explicit memory is unmasked when the performance on a task requires conscious memory of previous occurrences (Graf and Schacter, 1985 in Anderson, 2015) and conveyed in typical tests of cued and free recall and recognition. Event memory loss after an injury is called anterograde amnesia which involves the extended hippocampal complex and the thalamus which helps form new memories (Salnaitis,…

“The proper occasion for outrage is not that too many students are getting A’s, but that too many students have been led to believe that getting A’s is the point of going to school” (Kohn, 1999). In the perspective of a student, the pathway to success entitles a college or university degree education and more importantly, the grades to become accepted into these competitive programs. The education system has revolved around short term results, rather than long term success and knowledge.…

good mark if you only study once the night before the exam or test. There is a process in which you perform your memory. First being encoding, secondly is storage and lastly is retrieval. Encoding is the first step and the most important. Encoding is the process of getting your information. We have to make sure that the information we use is in the easiest format for our memories to file away.A part of this is how important the role of attention is. Before we can start encoding things we…