Episodic memory

One can rearrange pieces of their memory, both good and bad, and make their past into what they want others to understand and believe about themselves. One can also use past memories to reflect who they are today. Patricia Hampl, an American memoirist and poet, wrote an article titled “Memory and Imagination,” in which she recalls her first piano lesson. In her recollection, she soon discovers that the way she believed things had happened and the way she explained them may not have actually…

Introduction Imaginative escape is creation of images in the head, like remembering how your young life was. Visualization of the past happenings is eminent in these stories. Imagination is much eminent in the story of Araby. The narrator is filled with thoughts of his friend’s sister though the girl knows little about it as the narrator doesn’t talk much with the girl, he fears expressing his secret love to her. Physical escape is simply to put what you have imagined into action. It is…

A blank can be defined in various ways. It can be defined as a situation, belief, or idea that reduces people to nothing more than inferior objects. I have been a blank space only a few times in my life. All of these experiences resulted in personal growth and maturity .Similar to the perceptions of condescending individuals who deemed minorities of African descent as inferior in Heart of Darkness and The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. At Camp A, I was reduced from an individual to a…

Chapter IV Prey Sensitization, Learning and Memory in Reduviids: Implications in Biological Control 4.1. Introduction Sensitization is an increasing response to a stimulus presented repeatedly while habituation denotes a failure of response to the stimulus (Staddon, 1988). The process of sensitization has enormous adaptive value. When a prey escapes from the clutches of a predator as a result of exhibiting a response, it gets sensitized. If and when a second attempt at capture is initiated by…

experience in completing the exercise. How do you think learning, intelligence, language, and memory are connected to any ease or difficulty you may have experienced while doing the exercise? While I was doing the exercise, I found out that learning intelligence, language, and memory are connected in the process of acquiring knowledge. I have noted that knowledge is building of experience in which memory has significant role to build an ease relationship between intelligence and language. 2)…

as accurate as it was once thought to be. In fact, Science magazine reports that eyewitness testimony was the basis for approximately 75 percent of wrongful convictions for murder and rape. It is a common misconception that the human mind recalls memories like a video recorder replaying recorded events. Rather, remembering events is more like putting the pieces of a puzzle together, according…

Pupil dilation What do multiplication problems and a picture of a dead body have in common? Each sight will induce slight and irreversible expansion of the pupils within our eyes. This gives observers a subtle yet obvious signal about our thoughts and feelings. After much research into why our pupils dilate, scientists have known our pupils respond to more than mere changes in the light and also display our mental and emotional changes within. In fact, our pupil dilation correlates with arousal…

Often overlooked, are the stories that follow the story of a mental hero’s journey, one that involves obstacles challenging to the mind. Glimmer, a realistic fiction novel, tells the story of Elyse and Marshall as they attempt to recover their lost memories and save their town from an evil occultist. The 347 page novel by Phoebe Kitanidis follows the pattern of the hero’s journey in both a mental and physical form as multiple events in the story match the steps in the hero’s journey. One of the…

the illustrations fading every day, no longer the color they were. On page 5, I can still notice the cheesy, Cheetos fingerprint, even though my mother always told me to wash my hands after I finished eating, and before reading. Not only did I have memories with your book, I had journeys. Every time I listened to the book or as I mumbled, and stuttered, trying each word until I was old enough to fluently read this child’s book. Journeys flooding into my imagination as each word was spoken, or as…

Hebbian theory is a neuroscientific theory on learning and synaptic plasticity. Hebbian learning relates to mirror neurons, as it provides a possible theory as to the emergence of mirror neurons. Mirror neurons are neurons, which fire both when the individual themselves in performing an action, as well as when they view others performing the same action. Evidence of mirror neurons was first discovered by Di Pellegrino, Fadiga, Fogassi, Gallese, and Rizzolatti (1992) in a study of macaque…