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    The human brain is a complex organ that researchers continue to study and discover how it works. J Ripley Stroop developed a test called the Stroop effect to help measure how well a person’s selective attention works and brain processing speeds (Chudler, 2015). This test is used in screening people for dementia, schizophrenia, brain damage, stroke, and ADHD and helps determine aspects of attention and focus (Chudler, 2015). Humans are not equal in cognitive abilities thus any one test is not…

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    topic, repressed memories. A topic that is complex and very hard to proove and yet hard to discredit. While I am sure this is a situation that does happen, it probably is less common than has been reported. The main focus in this article seems to be oriented around child abuse memories being repressed. I believe children have the ablilty to try and protect themselves by repressing horrifying experiences. While I am sure there are many real cases of people repressing memories, I feel that our…

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    Post-event rumination involves a tendency to review social situations in a detailed and negative fashion, and often leads to the re-experiencing of situations. This processing of information includes intrusive and extensive recalling of memories that results in high levels of anxiety (Morgan & Banerjee, 2008) and of negative self-images that perpetuate the assumption they do not perform well in social situations, and leads to an increase in avoidance behavior (Kashdan & Roberts, 2007). The type…

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    Executive Switching

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    Language and executive processing This study was designed and conducted by Nick Rendell at Birkbeck University. The study focused on how language has contributed to cognitive development looking at both bilingual and monolingual people. Can we find a relationship between the levels of bilingual speech production/comprehension and task switching ability? Executive functions are used when people listen and speak especially by bilingual people who need to control which of language they use or…

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    Summary It’s a case study on use of fMRI to detect the awareness in the vegetative state and discuss the implications on neurology and neuroscience. The article discusses about 2 patients, who meet with traumatic brain injury, showed sleep-wake cycles, preserved reflexes, cognitive simulations underwent fMRI study. The fMRI task is to imagine an activity, that elicit expected cortical regions pertaining to the activity and supplementary motor area representing movement. An earlier study on…

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    Stickgold's Theory

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    Summary Let’s Sleep On It by Lea Winerman (2006) discussed that if you had more hours of sleep then you would have more brain activity which could lead to better learning and a more extensive memory. Robert Stickgold, PhD from Harvard “believed that sleep allows us to process, consolidate and retain new memories and skills”. Stickgold also investigated sleep effect’s on students who would learn a new tasks and would deprive them of a one night’s sleep to see how well they remembered the new…

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    the comprehension of memory is totally dazzling and runs onto many things. Also, is an exceptionally fascinating subject to contemplate internally about. Ask yourself for what reason do we overlook? How can it happen? Will it be altered? In what way would we be able to forestall it? An unending trail of inquiries. Our mind is similar to a PC that has a ceaseless memory stockpiling. The contrast between the typical distraction that increments with age known as age related memory weakness and…

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    Loftus Case Study

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    Loftus has found that when an event is recalled, it isn’t accurately re-created. The memory is actually a reconstruction of the actual event. Your brain is using new and existing information to fill the gaps in your memory. She states that memories can change over time. Going off of what we know about memory, this study focuses on the wording of questions asked of eyewitnesses could alter their memories of events when they were asked other questions about the events at a later time. In…

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    P1 Unit 2 Research

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    weakly related lures showed little significant, but critical lures were recalled with false confidence of (58%). This data demonstrates that we falsely remember things related in subject matter but fail to identify the source of these items especially when there is in-between time recall. P2: The fact that we can misjudge the source of our memories by creating what we think to be a realistic origin of memory can help explain why the critical…

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    There are four different types of amnesia, Anterograde amnesia which is when you can’t form new memories due to head trauma, Retrograde amnesia which is a loss of pre-existing memories, Lacunar amnesia which is a loss of memory of a specific event, and Childhood amnesia which is a common inability to remember events from childhood. In the film Memento, we meet Leonard Shelby or Lenny, who has an exaggerated form of anterograde amnesia. Lenny is on a mission to kill John G. because he believes…

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