Episodic memory

In the teachings of Hinduism reincarnation is widely accepted as the process of a dead body’s soul entering into a newborn body and starting a new life. The Bhagavad Gita proclaims, “Just as the soul acquires a childhood body, a youth body, and an old age body during this life; similarly, the soul acquires another body after death…” (The Bhagavad-Gita, 2.13) and also “Just as a person puts on new garments after discarding the old ones; similarly, the living entity or the individual soul acquires…

decaying information occurs once the information is in short term memory if not attended to; this is known as a Late Selection Model (LSM). This slight variation in models leads to very different ideas as to the nature of short-term memory. ESM believe that short term memory is a small store that can only hold Miller’s 7+/-2 capacity and attention is the process to filter the information. However LSM belief that short term memory is much larger but still only has the same resources so stimulus…

Everyone has their unique ways of learning something from start to finish. Often times we take for-granted our abilities to successfully teach a task or technique to ourselves not to mention others. Once we find that drive or that spark we can put forth the effort to teach us something that we have never learned before. Its all about the ideas behind what actually goes into learning something new. In an effort to gain a better understanding of how we learn I have thought of a learning goal,…

Memory and personal identity are an integral part of our lives. These characteristics and traits assist us in the way we make decisions and approach situations. Memory in relation to personal identity is a topic that has been studied by several Philosophers. The question of whether or not memory presupposes identity is a circular one, and therefore makes this question important. To study this, I looked at Parfits theory of Psychological continuity, and how it was seen as problematic due to its…

depends on our memories to some degree; especially our working memory (Baddeley, 1992). To understand many of our cognitive processes (problem solving, cognition, attention, etc.) one needs to understand the abilities and limits of memory. This information also translates into practical reasons as well. We rely on our memories to make judgements on significant events ranging from eyewitness testimony, to winning an argument with our significant other over who said what. All in all, memory…

amnesia and its affects. One of them is that most people with amnesia forget everything about their identities and all of their past memories. A second is that one way to get rid of amnesia is to have another head injury (Lilienfeld, Lynn, Ruscio, Beyerstein, 2010). Theses myths are a problem if left unaddressed because it causes people to have misconceptions about memory, learning and how the brain works. It is also important to discredit the myth so people know what to except if they…

papers are “judged”, revised, or graded based off how well I can unify a theme amongst different ideas. For the first paper, we were assigned The Persistence of Memory: A Personal Narrative. We used an activity on vivid memories from the beginning of class to begin our thoughts on the importance of vivid, sensual details of memories. Along with this we had to incorporate a piece that we were assigned in class to use…

For this report I interviewed my great grandmother, Margaret Westphal, about the changes she is encountering within each domain throughout late adulthood. Last April she celebrated her 76th birthday and appears to be aging successfully according to John Rowe and Robert Kahn (Boyd & Bee, 2012, p. 462). Rowe and Kahn define successful aging as maintaining physical health, cognitive abilities, being involved in social and productive activities, and being satisfied with life. (Boyd & Bee, 2012, p.…

The Good Times As D.H. Lawrence listens to a woman singing and playing piano, he experiences a moment of involuntary memory that is connected to his mother. In his poem “Piano”, Lawrence begins by stating, “softly in the dusk, a woman is singing to me” (1). By using descriptive text throughout the poem, Lawrence illustrates the memory of, “hymns in the cozy parlor, the tinkling piano our guide” (8). Lawrence explains that the singer is “taking me back down the vista of years” which makes it…

Loftus and Hyman performed psychology research that showcased that memories have inaccuracies. Because of their help, psychologists understand that memories are not always exact. Memories stimulate different types of responses. In addition, certain memories showcase strong emotions which allow those memories to be remembered longer. These emotions include not only fear and horror, but also joy and excitement. Every person experiences an exciting moment in their life. Whether it is a…