Long-term memory

to ‘break’ an old memory and put it together with an old one. Learning overwrites old facts that are already known; like how some of our memories can change. To re-phrase this statement, your brain is not necessarily “changing” your past memories, it is more like updating them. Pretend you have just learned a new language. You learn the new language by studying, and eventually, you are able to speak it by using your memory to retrieve the words that you have learned. Memory is very…

legalized this drug. The federal government has legalized it and only a few states, but this substance is highly taxed for a great cause. It is highly prevalent in teens that are trying to “fit in.” Parents should talk to their children about the long term effects of marijuana. Marijuana increases the risk of acquiring respiratory infections. Marijuana serves a non-beneficial purpose in healthy Americans free of disease; furthermore, the federal government should not allow Americans to use…

Proactive Inhibition shows that Short-Term Memory and Long-Term Memory are not as different as once believed. – Author’s Goal: The author wanted to isolate components within the primary memory and secondary memory to decipher if either were susceptible to Proactive Inhibition. – Hypotheses: If there were more than seven obstacles then the recall is believed to be from the secondary memory, but if less than seven obstacles recall would be from the primary memory. • Experiment 1 (5 pts.) –…

Sleep and memory are complex acts of the human experience that still to this day are not initially understood. Many studies have suggested that sleep helps learning and memory in various ways. One example, a sleep-deprived person cannot focus attention optimally and therefore cannot learn efficiently. Secondly sleep itself has a role in the consolidation of memory, which is essential for learning new information. Three Main Functions Are Acquisition. Consolidation and Recall. All of these steps…

verbal memory deficits. These deficits can last up to six weeks after an individual stops using marijuana (Schweinsburg et al., 2008). The researchers conducting this study were trying to prove a connection between learning inefficiencies, and the memory deficits due to early onset marijuana use. The researchers believe that the verbal memory deficits are due to learning inefficiencies brought on by early onset marijuana use. Marijuana is believed to disrupt the neuronal firing and long-term…

types of effects that heavy drinking can cause: short term and long term (Long Term and Short Term Effects of Alcohol, 2006). Some of the short term effects include impaired judgement, slurred speech, blurred vision, headaches, memory lapses, and several others (Long Term and Short Term Effects of Alcohol, 2006). These things can all lead to decisions that can affect personal relationships, work performance, and other aspects of life. Some long term effects of binge drinking are: nerve damage,…

Which Can You Recall Better? The Effects of Concrete vs. Abstract words and Gum Chewing on Short-term Memory and Long-term Memory Many day to day tasks require us to use our memory. We either have to remember to set our alarm clocks at night or remember to turn off the stove before leaving the house. Unfortunately, some of us are even tasked with having to remember the important dates of historical events for a history exam. What about remembering something as simple as a list of words? Do we…

In essence, everyone lives their lives in the same basic fashion: a constant cycle of encoding and storing new memories, along with the retrieval of old ones. Granted, there are those exceptions to the norm, but in the grand scheme of things they are really the outliers. Now since our brains don’t function like a video camera perfectly capturing every moment of our lives, we have to work earnestly in order to remember every minute detail which is deemed important or necessary. This is where…

interferes with remembering old information already stored in the long term memory (LTM). An example of this would be if an individual were to call his/her ex-girlfriend/boyfriend the new boyfriend/girlfriend’s name. This example shows that the recent name retroactively interferes with the previous name, which is evidently problematic for recall. b. A distorted or false memory is a contrived remembrance of an event. This type of memory occurs when components from different experiences are…

Consolidation of memory; the process of maintaining information in your LTM is strongly influenced by the role of sleep (Potkin and Bunney, 2012). “Declarative memory or explicit memory, emphasizes the representation and organization of factual knowledge (Reed, 2013).” Declarative memory plays a key role in an adolescent’s school performance and the process of consecutive social functioning. This study explores the effect of normal sleep on auditory declarative memory in adolescents ages 10-14.…