Long-term memory

WA #2 In Loftus’s article “Leading Questions and the Eyewitness Report”, she investigates how being asked a sequence of questions after witnessing a major event may affect the memory that develops after it. With her hypothesis, she suggests how wording to a question can affect a person’s answer to it. An example to back it up was reported by Harris in 1973. His volunteers were told the experiment was a study of accuracy of guessing correct measurements. After, they were asked questions like “How…

age, we become vulnerable to Alzheimer’s, a scary disease that deteriorates the memory and mind. If you think you are at risk for Alzheimer’s, or if you suspect that your senior loved ones may be developing the disease, know it’s still possible to live a fulfilling life. The compassionate caregivers at Senior Care Transition Services in Dayton, OH, want you to know about the early signs of Alzheimer’s. Memory Loss: Memory loss is the most common symptom of Alzheimer’s. If you find yourself…

Baddeley created the working memory model as a way of explaining short term memory. He proposed that it consisted of 3 subsections, a central executive, a phonological loop and a visuo-spatial sketchpad, these subsystems are then further fractionated. Logie (1995) proposed that the visuo-spatial sketchpad is divided into two components; a visual cache and an inner scribe. The inner scribe contains information on movement and spatial awareness. Whereas the visual cache stores information about…

When someone walks onto a university campus, it is very easy to nominalize people. Everyone is in their own world, doing the routine of their lives. However, spend a few hours with someone, and it can become apparent that conjectured stereotypes are often extraordinarily false. Burke Severyn is a student at the University of Texas at Tyler. At 20 years of age, Severyn a mite taller than the average man. He has sandy-brown hair that is well-complimented with dark brown eyes; set off by a…

Mental imagine becomes more and more prevalent in today’s society. Mental imagine involves unconscious thoughts and become conscious and visualization is a conscious thought process. People usually use the visual cortex a lot instead of non-visual cortex during imagination and perception process. Mental rotation is the individual's capacity to manipulate a mental representation of objects within a person's brain (Cheung 128). Notably, the mind alternations are directly proportional to the visual…

To identify if a patient is at risk of Alzheimer’s disease, doctors have devised a quick test. The 21-question test distinguishes between normal absent-mindedness and the more sinister memory lapses that may signal the early stages of dementia. The 21 questions are answered with a simple ‘yes’ or ‘no’. A ‘yes’ is given a score of one or two and a ‘no’ always scored zero, giving a maximum possible score of 27. Someone who scored under five is advised that there is no cause for concern. A score…

Bilinguals vary drastically in terms of social interaction, cognitive and educational abilities as well as linguistic techniques. The influence bilingualism has on the human mind, therefore, needs be studied based on the contextual evidence and not as a category in which all bilingual…

Television shows such as Law and Order: SVU have brought the concept of repressed and recovered memories to pop culture. Repressed and recovered memories can be described as memories of traumatic events from childhood, that is forgotten then recalled later in life. This is a controversial topic in the mental health community; with the draw surrounding the validity of these memories. Working with doctors and researchers, judges within the court circuits must pick a position to get the justice…

that it is unjust to execute a man based only on eyewitness testimony, with no further evidence. An eyewitness testimony is involved with the memory, and as humans we know our memory tends to fail us sometimes. In regards to memory, we have the role of interference, which makes it hard to either retain new or old material. This could infer that the memory of the incident could be partially lost, and what the eyewitness claims to see is what he thought he saw,…

has the unique ability to organize their thoughts, memories, and sense of self within two separate temporal locations. One level sees the writer as the all-seeing powerful being examining and interpreting memories in retrospect through the narrative voice, and the other allows the author to function as a character within the narrative who may physically interact with the story, albeit both roles are explicitly constrained by the limits of their memory. The graphic memoirs Persepolis by Marjane…