Memory loss

Cognition, as defined in our notes, is the “mental processes related to acquisition, storage, and retrieval” (Frank P. Gengaro, Ph.D., MSW, M.A., LCSW, SI, TM, TM, TL, TMC, TTP). This basically means that cognition has a huge part in acquiring information and storing the information in an efficient way so that we can access it whenever we need to. The main way that we study human cognition is through the humanistic perspective. The humanistic perspective suggests that we are social creatures who…

The Lomans have memories and dreams throughout Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman. Particularly, Willy and Biff have false memories about the past, and Willy has day-time reminiscences. These fabricated memories are, in general, optimistic, but their consequences are not as positive. The Lomans’s self-deceptive view of their history is unhealthy for their well-being. Biff and Willy attempt to feel better about their former mistakes by ignorantly assuming that the past was better than the…

be preserved in memory. In the essay, “The End of Remembering” by Joshua Foer, memory is an important issue. Different tools for remembering are discussed. In the course of time, a series of technologies have been created: the alphabet, scrolls, the printing press, photography, the computer, and the smartphone. Advancements in technology have made it progressively easier to externalize memories. Foer believes there is something great at stake by using technology to store memories instead of the…

A total of 34 different studies were used. The literature was searched in two categories; false memory retrieval and encoding that led to false memories, where all the points on certain conditions had to be met. The criteria set by (Kurkela, & Dennis 2016) included “participants who had done a whole brain analysis, people without mental illness or neuropsychological problems…

She exists through their memories. Twyla recalls Maggie wearing an “awful”, “stupid little hat”, where “even for a mute, it was dumb” in her dream (245). The adjectives used to describe Maggie’s hat, strong and offensive as they seem, are childish. This is to shed light on an eight-year-old’s…

In the article, Depth Echolocation Learnt by Novice Sighted people the authors did a study to see if you could teach non-blind people to echolocate. They had 18 participants, 9 males 9 females. After conducting a few tests to make sure none of the participants had hearing impairments, some of the participants were put in the anechoic room, and half in the reverberant room which had parquet, polyester carpet on the floor. They believed that non-blind people would echolocate better in the…

Nerve cell degeneration that occurs in AD (as shown in Figs. 4 & 5) reflects in a great way symptoms that the individual experiences. Typically, nerves degeneration occurs first in the brain area responsible for learning and memory, and gradually spreads to cells controlling other aspects such as thinking, judgment and behavior. Eventually, damage reaches nerve cells that control and coordinates movement. Figure 4 Brain from normal elderly person (upper left and right)vs. brain of…

False memories are created through DRM paradigm from automatic spread of activation stored information (Watson et al, 2005). It is also due to the attentional control that differentiates words and networks from the real presentation of words (Watson et al, 2005). There are numerous factors that can cause distortions of memory such as relatedness effects, imagination, and social factors. Relatedness effects are an individual experiencing numerous stimuli that are related, where they generally…

The Doors and People Test was conducted by MacPherson, Bozzali, Cipolotti, and Shallice, and was approved by the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery and Institute of Neurology Joint Research Ethics Committee. The experiment aimed to test and compare the cognitive abilities of those who had frontal lobe lesions to those who did not. The study involved four tests; two tests measured ability of recall, and two tests measured ability of recognition. The experimental group consisted…

Creation of False Memories Memory is usually defined as the ability to encode, store and retain certain pieces of information that we deem important and want to recall at some point. However according to certain psychologist your memories aren't always an accurate representation of what you once saw or experience. This phenomenon is known as false memory; this occurs when our brains try to recall events that may have happened and add certain pieces of information that never occurred.In the…