Memory span

Recess is a time where so many childhood memories are learned. Maybe it involves making a new friend, creating a new game, or running faster than everyone else in the class. No matter what the memory is, recess has been, and still is, affecting students in a positive way. First, recess benefits students’ cognitive development. According to, “The Crucial Role of Recess in School,” by the American Academy of Pediatrics, children learn through experiences (183). A child can learn to throw a football in the classroom, but they will not fully understand how to properly grip the threads and throw the ball effectively if they never do it themselves. The students will also never connect the football to other sports and be able to compare and contrast the material of different balls (basketball, baseball, soccer ball, etc.) by describing them as being rough, smooth, or…

right now is becoming heavily dependent on technology, and it's most likely impossible to wean ourselves from it completely. However, we can train ourselves to use technology in moderation. Most of the negative effects technology causes is because it is used too much these days, but the more technology advances, the more humans overuse it. In the next five years, we can expect these effects to become more defined in society. Text claw might become an official health condition, or the next…

Working Memory Index On the Working Memory Index, which measures his ability to temporarily store and perform a set of cognitive operations on information that requires divided attention and the management of the limited capacity of short-term memory, Julian scored in the Low Average range on both subtests. On the first subtest, Digit Span, he was verbally presented with three sets of numbers. On the first set, Julian had to repeat the numbers back to the examiner in the correct order. On the…

Eric’s cognitive abilities were assessed through the use of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC-V). The areas of cognitive processing ability measured include crystallized intelligence, short-term memory, visual-spatial processing, reasoning ability, and processing speed. The subtests measure different cognitive processing abilities, combining to form five index scores: Verbal Comprehension, Visual-Spatial, Fluid Reasoning, Working Memory and Processing Speed which all together…

one point four billion people carry a smartphone. It is as if the person carries a second limbic system with them at all times. The limbic system is a part of the temporal lobe that process memory. This second limbic system has come to replace the limbic one point o. If someone was to say the word memory those around him usually would assume the memory is meant to be related to something technological, though the most important memory is the memory that has unknowingly been replaced by the…

weight, no discomfort was mentioned Back: Distinct Kyphosis, shoulders hunched forward Bones & Joints Bones: No deformities. Joints: she is flexible, no tender areas or swelling. Being JL is a 54-year-old Caucasian female, approximately 5’4’’ and weighs 145 lbs, with a medium build. JL comes in with unwashed hair but usually has a change of clothing. She wears loose clothing that is unisex, with casual runners. JL is able to walk however she does tend to wobble. JL is sociable and will…

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…

Let me remove the assumption that I am against electronics. I love electronics and I myself spend a large deal of my time looking at a computer screen. While I do not believe cellphones are evil or television will rot your brain, I do believe that our lack of the ability to focus on more than one thing effectively does not mix very well with our distracting cellphones. Robert Sylwaester and Joo-Yun Cho explain in an issue of “Educational Leadership” that “An effective attention system must be…

hands to answer questions while others did not. Those raising their hand showed they had some background knowledge on Tecumseh. The same students raised their hand time and time again. There were students who were sitting quietly watching the Brain Pop Video while a few other students seem to not be paying attention. One boy was looking around to see what his friends was doing. From the video I noticed that many of the students’ attention spans were lost half way through. You could hear papers…

Attention is a limited resource. Most of the time, people are interested in figuring out how best to use attention to our advantage: how to make sure we are registering the important things, while paying less care to other, less salient stimuli. Being able to effectively control attention contributes to our ability to study well and react quickly to new stimuli in the environment. However, there are also circumstances in which people would want to use the limited resource of attention to…