Long-term memory

Introduce memory The analysis of human memory spans as far as 2000 years ago to Aristotle 's efforts to comprehend memory in his thesis "De Memoria" (Bloch, 2014). Following Aristotle, many advancements have been made in the knowledge of the human memory, and in 1878 the first scientific approach to studying memory was developed by Herman Ebbinghaus (Nadel & Nadel, 2005). Ebbinghaus categorised the three individual types of memory as sensory, long-term and short-term. (Ebbinghaus, 2013).…

1. Compare and contrast working and reference memory. The difference between these two types of memory are the "retention"(p.311) period necessary to the situation. Working memory is a temporary retention, meaning that that information is only stored long enough to complete a task before being soon discarded. However, pieces of information can be moved from working to reference memory, also known as long-term memory. Reference memory uses background information to succesfully use incoming and…

recall yesterday, it is because we may have inadvertently stored the item in short-term memory." It sounds like this is saying that yesterday we remembered a memory that occured in, lets say, October 2014; however, today we are unable to recall that same memory. My first inclination was that this is extremely unlikely! If the memory was recalled yesterday, it was in long term memory yesterday. When you retrieve a memory from LTM, I don't believe it is actually removed from LTM and then…

based on memorizing. A tournament in New York took place in March 2012, where a 28-year old man won twice. The tournament is called the USA Memory Championship, the competition consists on challenging memory games. The tournament is meant to test the 50 participant's brain power."Well, that's what it took to be a competitor in an annual tournament that includes memory-challenging games designed to test competitors' brainpower." (paragraph 1) The article also explains the strategies or techniques…

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…

Valentin 7 Memory Psychologists aspire to understand the mind by observing, describing, explaining, predicting, and controlling certain behaviors within their field of study (Rathus). Several theories and perspectives will use memory as the basis of many different psychological theories and perspectives. For example, both John B. Watson?s Behaviorism and the, later created, learning perspective posit that the basis of behavior stems from accumulating knowledge, or learning, over time.…

successful with a case in court. In Chapter 6, the concepts of memory and forgetting were examined. Memory is “the process of encoding, storage, and retrieval of information” (Wood, Wood, & Boyd, 2014. p. 179). Our memories are processed by the Three Memory Systems, which were suggested by Shiffrin and Atkinson. The Three Memory Systems consists of sensory memory (temporary storage), short-term memory (less than 30 seconds), and long-term memory (from minutes to lifetime storage). Often the…

The Hippocampus is a part of the brain in the Limbic System. This part is where long-term memory is stored. If this part becomes dysfunctional in any given person, he or she will be unable to form long-term memories. Therefore, that person will only have short term memory that will not change to long-term during sleep, so he or she will lose any new memories gained throughout the day. A case study that was done on this phenomenon in the 1950’s was done on Henry Molaison. He received an injury to…

Enriching Encoding Encoding is paying attention to something to remember information through forming memory codes. Enriching encoding is the different ways people adapt to help in forming memory codes. Ways such as Elaboration, which means to connect the new information to our existing schemas. For example, when I read about phobias, I get reminded of my fear of dogs and dentist. Ways also like Visual Imagery where our brains create a mental picture of the word. For example, when people are…

1. I believe its anterograde amnesia because john can remember his long-term memories that he had before the stroke, but can’t recall he short term memories, like he’s grandson who was born after his stroke. Anterograde amnesia, also known as fixation amnesia, is the loss of the ability to create new memories, leading to a reduced or complete failure to recall the recent past, even though long-term memories from before the incident, which caused the amnesia remain intact. Patients may therefore…