Memory processes

Sleep Insight Improves Memory Recall It is common knowledge that sleep is essential for survival, “we spend about one-third of our lives asleep.” (National Institutes of Health, 2003) When an individual obtains adequate sleep, it is known to lower stress, improve one’s mood, help maintain a healthy weight, improves athletic performance/coordination, and increases one’s ability to pay attention and remember new information. The benefits of getting adequate hours of sleep, in turn have drastic…

Our memories is what makes us, us. It is what we use to study, read, visualize or even listen. Our brain uses our memories for encoding, storing in short and long term memory boxes and retrieving from them when we need them. There are two parts of encoding, automatic processing and effortful processing. Let’s talk about automatic processing. Automatic processing processes the large amounts of info about space, time, frequency and even well-learned information. These four things are the big…

confident with our memories? Recalling memories is something that’s done on the daily, and is a very easy task to accomplish. We remember our last meal, what we did last weekend, and much more. Memories are recalled on our leisure and when they matter, like being an eyewitness to a crime. Regardless of what is being recalled the memory is firm; that is that the way the memory is remember is exactly the what it happened. For how much confidence we put in our memories our memories are not…

language and memory. Journal Of Verbal Learning And Verbal Behavior, 13, 585-589. The article “Reconstruction of automobile destruction: An example of the interaction between language and memory” by Elizabeth F. Loftus and John C. Palmer was to investigate whether different verbs used to describe an automobile accidents would alter participants’ memory remembering the automobile accidents. The problem being adressed is how the different verbs could affect the witnesses’ memories. The…

The processes involved in emotion regulation and working memory have recently been explored. Although there is extensive research on emotion regulation and working memory, few studies have examined the relationship. Emotion regulation is based on several factors, such as valence bias, the tendency to perceive information as negative or positive, and trait-like factors. Despite consistent latency for valence bias, studies have considered the role of reaction time for categorizing valences of…

all the processes within the body. As if that was not enough the brain runs complex mental functions as well. It is the home of the human mind. One of the key human functions that are run by the brain is the memory process. The human memory was one thought to work as simply as a filing system. Taking memories and storing them in a particular compartment of the brain. However scientists soon found out that the memory process is much more complex and involves several parts of the brain. A memory…

Memory: the Multi-store Model vs. the Working Memory Model The multi-store model was the first model that attempted to explain the process of memory. The multi-store model is oversimplified and is not detailed enough to explain how memory works in everyday life. The working memory model is a more accurate description of the process of short-term memory and how short-term memories are converted into long-term memories. The multi-store model is able to explain the cognitive processes begin…

Memory is one of the most significant factors that distinguishes human from other organisms and it is the ability to store and recall things when needed such as knowledge, information and past events or experiences, which can be expressed into images, sounds and meaning. Matlin (2005) says that “Memory is the process of maintaining information over time". Memories contain the sense of self, cultural identities and the meaning of life and take place in the communication, movement and problem…

This article by Smith et al., 2015, tests how pictures can have an effect on false memories especially in older adults. The researchers were interested in why pictures can decrease false memories in older adults but why visual words do not decrease false memories in older adults as they do in younger adults. In this study there were two experiments with both older and young adults. The first experiment tests whether young adults would have higher false recall being presented with sounds of words…

The Misinformation Effect: A Fact Sheet The misinformation effect (ME) can be defined as the change in people’s memories of an incident, after they are presented with false or misleading information about that incident (Gordon & Shapiro, 2012). For example, after watching a video of a woman shopping for green vegetables at a supermarket, it is easy to remember those vegetables. However, once misleading information such as, two other green vegetables are added to the original a list of…