Long-term memory

“Memories of Things Unseen” states the importance of the study of memory and gives examples of how people’s memory can be changed based on external suggestions. The article talks about false memory and how people’s memories can be altered just by being questioning or having an instance mentioned to them. The article states many studies and events where this has occurred, especially during crime scene investigations where the longer the person is investigated, the more prone they are to…

The snake represents her mother in some way, so when faced with one she feels fear, but as these feelings are in the unconscious mind, she cannot express the reasons why. These memories are personal to Anna so Bjorn does not express the same fear. However, this study lacks temporal validity because it was conducted over a hundred years ago, and since then psychologists have developed opposing theories with higher levels of accuracy. Also, the study raises the issue of treatment fallacy as…

In Robert J. McDonald and Norman M. White’s article, “A Triple Dissociation of Memory Systems,” they explain how the memory system works. The memory system is made of three major region areas of the brain: the hippocampus, amygdala, and dorsal striatum. The hippocampus region is to gain information about the relationships between stimuli. Stimuli is an action that alerts physiological or psychological activity (freedictionary.com). In learning areas, this relation sip helps lower doubtfulness…

All memory is social. Everyday we create memories, and we all use memory in our everyday lives but in the end we only remember some of them. Memory is the tool we use to learn and think. Right now you're reading this, and you're probably thinking to yourself a memory of your own. In this paper I will be discussing the qualities, and nature from Professor Roy, William’s book, “Making Societies” and Sociologist Zerubavels’ text in “Time Maps”. Social memory helps to determine the boundaries around…

performance with minimal support from their tutor. In terms of their response time, Neil, Eric, Tom and James were able to effectively complete the tasks within a mean response time per object lower than 3 sec. However, they generally needed more time to respond to the sorting, memorizing and assembling tasks (Task 1, Task 5 and Task 8), thus confirming existing research findings about the difficulties associated with poor spatial working memory when persons with ASD use complex visual…

S. s., Thorley, C., Hammond, E. R., & Ormerod, T. C. (2011). Convergent, but not divergent, thinking predicts susceptibility to associative memory illusions. Personality & Individual Differences, 51(1), 73-76. doi:10.1016/j.paid.2011.03.018 Purpose of the study The aim of the study was to examine the link between creativity and is prone to associative memory delusions in the Deese/Roediger-McDermott (DRM) method and this was further explored utilizing a multiple regression analysis.…

Hypnosis has been used in the past to help people recover certain memories. The memories recovered have used in court cases as evidence and verdicts made based on the memories; however, are these memories accurate? Should they be used in court cases as true and accurate memories? In the case study Accuracy of Recall by Hypnotically Age-Regressed Subjects, these questions are answered. Overall, the memories recovered using hypnosis are inaccurate. They should not be used in court cases and held…

Memories serve as an anchor to our lives. They define who we are and what we have been through. They measure our lives thus far. We hold onto all memories, good and painful ones. The traumatizing memories we bear serves the purpose of reflection and caution. In Toni Morison’s Beloved, memory is shown as a haunting self-imprisonment of the human mind. Sethe suffer through the past of her life on Sweet Home and the death of her loved ones. In Shirley Ann Williams’s Dessa Rose, memory of the past…

events that take place in our lives effect the state our body is in but also drugs and medicine effect the chemical balance within the body. These chemicals and hormones alter the properties of the brain and thus have an effect on memory. It has been proven that the memory experiences state and mood dependency. Thus the shifting from one state to another affects the recall of information. There are many different methods to manipulate an individuals’ mood in order to measure…

What makes a childhood good? Is it all the memories to look back on, is it accomplishments, or is it something that we all just say that was fun. Well for me I had a lot of good and fun memories during my childhood and here are some of them. When I was about seven my family moved to St. Libory. Our house in St. Louis was getting a little too small for the six of us. My dad would always tell me about the different places of land him and my mom looked at deciding if that where they want to build…