Memory

For this report I interviewed my great grandmother, Margaret Westphal, about the changes she is encountering within each domain throughout late adulthood. Last April she celebrated her 76th birthday and appears to be aging successfully according to John Rowe and Robert Kahn (Boyd & Bee, 2012, p. 462). Rowe and Kahn define successful aging as maintaining physical health, cognitive abilities, being involved in social and productive activities, and being satisfied with life. (Boyd & Bee, 2012, p.…

As a small business owner, do you ever feel like you need more sleep? You know your duties are many and varied, including customer service, human resources, logistics, and marketing, to name a few. In fact, you actually your responsibilities may be so great, you may need more sleep than a corporate executive, and the lack of sleep can be responsible for a variety of healthy problems and poor work performance. Corporate executives often tend to get home earlier than small business owners, because…

life reflect a greater effort of the Dominican people trying to separate themselves from the Trujillo legacy through forgetting and selective memory. Beli, “Embraced the amnesia that was so common throughout the Islands, five parts denial, five parts negative hallucination” (Diaz 259). As Monica Hanna states, “Forgetting is a seductive prospect when memory seems only to recall pain, but this consistently proves to be a very dangerous choice” (506). Rather than dealing with the pain of a violent…

impact of Alzheimers’ disease in adults in the United Kingdom and how should medicines be used to reduce that economic impact? Dementia is an umbrella term of common syndrome where it is usually describes as brain deteriorating problem which affect memory and predominance during elderly age. In record of Alzheimer’s society (reference), one third of people who are over 65 years old will develop dementia which shows the commonness of the condition in UK. Dementia can be divided into varies…

cognitive brain training is a useful tool that can help in many different areas of study. Although the researchers need to refine their experiments when it comes to the long-term areas of the brain as it takes a lot more training than the short term memory for example. Overall these are both excellent studies that could do with some…

our teeth and forgetting how to do it makes a huge difference. In normal aging, our brains slow down, but, intelligence remains constant. We are not as much bodily and psychologically flexible. We take more period of time to process information. Memory changes…

WA #2 In Loftus’s article “Leading Questions and the Eyewitness Report”, she investigates how being asked a sequence of questions after witnessing a major event may affect the memory that develops after it. With her hypothesis, she suggests how wording to a question can affect a person’s answer to it. An example to back it up was reported by Harris in 1973. His volunteers were told the experiment was a study of accuracy of guessing correct measurements. After, they were asked questions like “How…

As people become older, they experience “mental difficulties”, “a dwindling attention span”, and they begin to forget even the simplist of things (Barrett). However, some people, known as “superagers”, are able to keep their memory sharp and remain as attentive as a 25 year old. The question now is, what differentiates the two groups of people? Using magnetic resonance imaging, a study was done that identifies a “set of brain regions that distinguished the two groups” where the regular agers…

This sleep deprivation study titled Maternal sleep deprivation at different stages of pregnancy impairs the emotional and cognitive functions, and suppresses hippocampal long-term potentiation in the offspring rats was conducted by six researchers known as Peng, Y., Wang, W., Tan, T., He, W., Dong, Z., Wang, Y., & Han H. They proceeded with this study by obtaining male and female Sprague–Dawley rats from Chongqing Medical University Animal Care Centre. Next, they took these rats to the…

1a.) After reading the articles the three fundamental principals that underlie the use of mnemonics is imagination, association, and location. Imagination is an important principal for mnemonics as it allows for one to visualize the concept that they are trying to correlate with the images one creates in their mind. Association, which has worked in my favor plenty of times when studying for an exam, allows for you to “link” certain aspects of one thing to the desired concept one is attempting to…