Memory

Summarize: This article examines the effects of acute exercise on long-term memory. They assessed for memory by using a paragraph recall, in which participants listened to two paragraphs and then had to recall them 35 minutes later. Participants were randomly assigned to one of three groups: exercise prior to exposure, exercise after exposure, or no-exercise. The participants included 48 young adults recruited from the University of North Carolina-Greensboro campus. There were 15 men and 33…

conduction a two-was mixed group ANOVA 2 X (3), on the two factors time of day which can be broken down into a further 3 levels (morning, afternoon and evening) and gender which can also be broken down into 2 levels (male and female) on short term memory recall. This was conducted to test for differences between the two independent groups whilst exposing participants to repeated measures. When analysing variance there are a number of assumptions which need to be considered and applied. Firstly,…

“Acute Exercise Improves Motor Memory: Exploring Potential Biomarkers” is a study published in Neurobiology of Learning & Memory that focuses on the potential role several biomarkers have on exercise induced improvements of human motor skill acquisition and retention (Skriver et al., 2014). This correlational study expands on an earlier study conducted by Roig, Skriver, Lundbye-Jensen, Kiens, & Nielsen which found that a single cardiovascular exercise session improved motor skill learning by…

The Giver is stresses the importance of human memories. Above all, our ability to recall from the past is significant and plays a major part in how we get along in everyday life. Decision making, taking tests, and using common sense are all examples of how memory helps us. The decisions we make impact our past, present and future. The Giver takes place in what seems to be utopia or a paradise. Life is good and people are happy. Everyone plays games and is polite to each other. But something is…

Memory is a critical part of our lives. It helps us to get better grades in school and reflect on special moments we experienced. There is a vast amount of research in psychology on what promotes and inhibits memory encoding and retrieval. Our current study assessed the difference in memory retention when expecting a memory test vs. a surprise memory test. We selected 253 participants from Dalhousie University and split them into two groups. One group was expecting a memory test and the other…

Memory is the faculty by which the mind stores and remembers information; something remembered from the past; a recollection. It is the human ability to encode, store, retain, and subsequently remember information and past encounters. Memory is also the sum total of what we remember. Everyone’s memory is slightly different. (Human-memory.net, 2010) Memory can be effected by things such as illness, age, and accidents but does gender effect human memory? Memory is a function of many sections of…

The differences between long-term memory and short-term memory and their specific usage. In psychology, memory is the process in which information in encoded, stored and retrieved. The ability of being able to store information for retrieval later does seem to be a fascinating concept, it is no wonder that there have been varies studies on memories. From rudimentary methods such as Ebbinghaus’s (1886) pioneering experimental study on memory by memorizing thousands of nonsense syllables to…

Psychologists are interested in studying memory illusions and distortions in order to discover how the memory works (Bartlett, 1932; Schacter, 2001). An interest in false memories arose in the 1900s, and led to people trying to discover if suggested influences can lead to remembering pseudo-events. A procedure was introduced where adults were given a description of a childhood event, and asked to remember them (Loftus and Pickrell, 1995). All of the events described would be true except for one.…

during a rocking chair marathon. The record holder reported experiencing hallucinations, paranoia, blurred vision, slurred speech having wavered memory along with concentration lapses. Does sleep deprivation have an effect on the brains memory process as well as making people more susceptible to false memories and poor judgments. The ability for the human memory to recall is astounding upon itself where all information is consolidated within the brain. Sleep deprivation is a condition where a…

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…