Memory processes

1. What is the shape of Ebbinghaus’s Classic forgetting curve, and what does it tell us about memory? Ebbinghaus’s Classic forgetting curve is shaped like a curved letter L (T. Hanson. Brain and Behavior). It tells us that the sooner we rehearse new information after learning it, the better the likelihood that we will remember it. However, the more time that passes, the less able we will be to remember all of the information and it only takes a few minutes for much of the information to become…

“Alive Inside” allows the audience to have an insight into the lives of Nursing Homes. The entire documentary is based on Dan Cohen, a social worker, who began a new organization called Music and Memory. When watching the documentary, I constantly compared the techniques used in the nursing homes to those discussed in class. In class, we discussed the elderly and Geriatrics. The lectures dealt with elderly who had neurological disorders like: Depression, Alzheimer’s, Dementia, Schizophrenia…

typically from a superordinate category like “animal” for “dog” (Kertesz & Harciarek, 2014). Patients with logopenic PPA their speech is often slowed, with frequent word-finding pauses. Logopenic PPA has been known to be a phonological short-term memory deficit so they have problems with repeating sentences and longer phrases. When it comes to naming objects they often use…

Learning is the acquisition of new information or knowledge and memory is the retention of learned information. The Canadian psychologist, Donald Hebb pointed out that memories can result from subtle alteration in synapses, and these alterations can be widely distributed in the brain. Hebb reasoned in his book “The Organisation of Behaviour” that the internal representation of an object ( for example a circle drawn on a piece of paper ) consists of all the cortical cells activated by the…

help readers understand how memory is influential and impactful when it comes to conflict. They open by explaining that conflict and memory can be commonly found on “two sides of the same coin” (Brescó & Wagoner, 2016). I other words conflict and memory feed into one another. On one side of the coin conflict greatly impacts memory, both individual and collective. This plays a role in unsuccesful resolutions for the future. On the other side of the coin is memories. Memories are the cause of…

Mental Exercises To Improve Your Memory Overview The brains strength and potency determines the efficiency of its memory. There are numerous activities involving the brain one can undertake to improve memory. The brain can be enhanced through this activity at any age due to its ability to change and adapt even to old age, inability known as neuroplasticity. When stimulated correctly, your brain can form new neural paths, change the existing connections and adopt react in an ever changing way.…

suggestion to inaccuracy and sensitivity. Recognizing unfamiliar faces is actually what eyewitness identification is all about. A person as the eyewitness should remember factors of intrinsic, (built-in) and extrinsic (outward) memory; which is the procedure for their memory, on the contrary it can be misleading evidence. Lineups are part of an identification process and based on an eyewitness identification, which could be a problem a criminal can be either guilty or innocent which his/her…

calculation abilities with impressive memory has baffled researchers (Treffert, 2009). Savant syndrome may be present in individuals…

Variations of Amnesia in Crime Amnesia; partial or complete memory loss. Amnesia is witnessed in three diverse states; dissociative, organic and malingered amnesia. All of which contain a lapse in memory recollection. However, each maintains a distinctive trigger. Criminals are exploiting the inadequate constraints of dissociative and organic amnesia in an effort to malinger amnesia in criminal trials. Although there are a number of perceived reasons why a person may become amnesic, either…

of the characters in these universes, live under strict conformity as they strive for perfection. This however, has a deeper meaning than what meets the eye- that denies the key qualities for living a satiating life that includes the presence of: memory, rebellion and one’s appreciation upon themself. Lowry and Ross further discuss…