Episodic memory

Our memories are valuable. All over the world, people work and live to make good ones. Not only are they cherished, but without them, we wouldn’t be able to learn skills, language, and information. Thankfully, our brains specialize in the area of making and recalling memories. In order to make a memory, we have to “encode, store, and retrieve information.” (200) Between these three stages of processing information, our brains contain many types of memory. The first stage that our brains go…

Regarding mental characteristics, we will examine an individual’s psychological traits which are developed through his or her past experiences and genetic predispositions. Additionally, we will be looking at how an individual at a certain time will have memory of previous experiences. We must carefully assess how these conditions for personal identity can be plausible, identify any objections to these criteria, and evaluate how…

Ch. 4—6 On Memory: The Lost in the Mall Study The power of suggestion is quite useful, partially because of just how untrustworthy our mind can be. No memory is stored in just one place, instead, it is a wide brain activity, giving room for error. Due to its widespread nature, no one type of memory exists. Subsequently, the categories, in the most basic manner, are episodic and procedural. Episodic for example, is remembering a present given to you. It is a singular event that holds personal…

the most important thing of all, your memory. Your memory is what allows you to remember how to brush your teeth, speak, or experience emotions. The cerebrum, the largest part of the brain, is where the short term memory is stored. It is not stored all in one place. It is stored among the four lobes of the brain: the frontal, parietal, occipital, and temporal lobe. These lobes all have different functions and jobs. Depending on what type of short term memory it is, it will have gone to one of…

The Influence of Sleep on Memory and Its Components Sleep is one of the most important functions that any human or animal can perform on a daily basis. While sleeping, our bodies may be at rest, but our mind is still actively processing all of the events and information that we encoded into our minds in our time spent being awake. Without sleep, the body cannot function, physically or mentally, as it would if we were to be properly rested. The amount of rest an individual receives can…

The Cognitive Processes of Aging and Memory Casey Imelio Sitting with my grandfather just today, it was clear to me that since being at college I had not noticed how much he had aged within the last two years. He forgot minimal details, such as my major and what truck I drove (which for him is surprising). While at the time being enrolled in both a Gerontology course and this Perception and Cognition course it was cool to see how I could put these details together and get a better understanding…

not always reliable, but it is considered to be reliable most times. Although perjury, or knowingly lying under oath, is illegal, the problem with eye witnesses is that their memory may fail them, so they may not be knowingly lying about something they say. In addition, anxiety and stress may impact the validity of the memory. According to the Yerkes Dodson Curve (1908),…

(2010). different studies have shown the negative effects of drug use on working memory: Morphine has been shown to impair working memory (Friswell et al.,2008); polydrug users who preferred cocaine or heroin, continued to have cognitive impairments, including working memory, up to five months into abstinence (VerdejoGarcía, and Pérez-García, 2007); methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA, ecstasy) caused working memory impairment even two and a half years after cessation of use (Thomasius et al.,…

Memory is an area of cognition that is thought to both be affected by, and be an integral part of the substance abuse cycle. Whereas addiction was once believed to be attributed to a lack of willpower, or flaws of character, much of the current understanding realizes it is a complex interplay between individual genetic, biological, developmental, and environmental characteristics (Koob & Volkow, 2009). The overreaching scope of this paper is to examine the connections between addiction and…

Memory Structures Amnesia is a partial or total loss of memory. It is usually caused after an event causing brain damage and has 2 major symptoms. The first, anterograde amnesia, is the inability to learn new, explicit information after trauma. The second, retrograde amnesia, is the inability to retrieve explicit information from time prior to trauma, with a temporal grading, meaning newer memories are more susceptible to loss (Psych 240 Lecture, 10-15-14). Amnesia has been the focus of…