Flash memory

recall information from memory. This method uses location and landmarks to be able to recall certain things. For example I use this when needing to remember where certain things are. I visualize a house and if I need to remember where my keys are, I remember everything that I may touch on my daily routine. So I imagine my house and each room and the locations that I normally reach for items I need before a reach my keys. 2) What is the difference between episodic and semantic memory? Give…

during the july 7th bombings? Can you be confident in your memories to stand up in a courtroom over 10 years later and demand that your memory is as clear and concise as it was when it was first created. In fact, many people who were not even present at these attacks still describe very clear memories of what they were doing when they found out about them. Why would somebody who was not directly affected by the event have such a clear memory of what they were doing and where they were at the…

However, the misery is still not over. Even if the term “chronic neurological disability” had been added under the draft bill of the Act4, the procedure of “labeling” a person with disability is still not consistent with the new definition of “disability”, especially when it comes to assessment of the mental capacity. Mental capacity is a multidimensional construct and a central determinant of an individual's ability to make autonomous decisions6. Mental capacity refers to the ability through…

Finding Dory, a film by Pixar Animation Studios is about a blue tang fish named Dory, where as a child, she got separated from her parents. She has short-term memory loss, so at first, when she got lost, she tries to look for her parents and asks other fishes for help but the fishes couldn’t help her because when they asked what are you looking for, Dory forgot what she is looking for. As time passed, she completely forgot about her parents. The only thing that she remembers is a song that goes…

Riley is 11 years old. According to Erikson’s psychosocial development stages, she is determining her industry vs. inferiority. Children in this stage typically learn independence, or in other words, how to do things on their own. Teachers begin to take an important role in the child’s life, since they teach the child specific skills. In the movie, Riley’s new teacher asks her to perform a task, more specifically, to stand up and talk about her life before she moved. Riley listens to her because…

The idea that synaptic modifications in the brain underlie learning and memory was first hypothesized by Donald Hebb in his pivotal work The Organization of Behaviour: A Neuropsychological Theory (Hebb, 1949). Since then, the theory has gained strong support from various lines of research where the discovery of synaptic long-term potentiation (LTP) and long-term depression (LTD) within the mammalian hippocampus present the strongest line of evidence (Howland and Wang, 2008). These phenomena have…

As a measure of current general intellectual functioning, the KBIT-2 was administered and yielded a Verbal Score = 86±5; a Nonverbal Score = 55±5; and an IQ Composite Score = 66±4. The composite score falls within the very low or borderline educational classification at the 01st percentile rank per national age based norms and needs to be viewed with caution. Due to Hunter’s struggles with focus and difficulty attending to auditory instruction, his nonverbal score is felt to be an under…

In this article by Susan Clancy, Richard McNally, Daniel Schacter, and Mark Lenzenweger. They take a look at the memory of those who have a claim to be abducted by aliens. Throughout this article the researchers wanted to test four hypotheses with regard to false recall and false recognition and produced a thesis statement that stated, "those reporting recovered and repressed memories of alien abduction were more prone than control participants to exhibit false recall and recognition. The groups…

Alzheimer’s is a condition where the brain cannot gain function and causes memory loss. Like any other disease, Alzheimer's is known as a progressive disease where dementia symptoms can worsen over a couple of years. This disease is not only for older people, but it can also happen in younger adults also. “Alzheimer’s”, by Kelly Cherry shows examples of imagery, tone, and theme to create a contrast between the man’s setting and of his memories. Firstly, the narrator in this poem pointed out…

seem to lie in how well the brain mismanages this information. In “Your Brain Lies to You,” Authors Dr. Samuel Wang and Dr. Sandra Aamodt, both established neuroscientists, use their knowledge to explain the specific ways the human brain stores memories and data. However, they also present their conclusion on how the brain can also mislead us to blindly believe information that could potentially hold no merit, without a second thought or inference. Wang and Aamodt claim that this is a result of…