Phase-change memory

The Influence of Sleep on Memory and Its Components Sleep is one of the most important functions that any human or animal can perform on a daily basis. While sleeping, our bodies may be at rest, but our mind is still actively processing all of the events and information that we encoded into our minds in our time spent being awake. Without sleep, the body cannot function, physically or mentally, as it would if we were to be properly rested. The amount of rest an individual receives can…

court of law in today’s world. The testimony is filled with red flags that warrant for the label of misinformation effect. Dr. Bruce Goldstein defines the misinformation effect as “misleading information presented after a person witnesses an event changes how the person describes that event later.” This can effect can be seen most of Kelley’s remember/know procedural questions such as, “Now, pretend this was you. Did the clown touches you? Where did the clown touch you? and Did the clown touch…

assignments. Teachers make exams a basic competition between who is capable of recalling the most amount of material, not about critical thinking. If memorizing works successfully for pupils from the beginning of kindergarten, they will not be inclined to change their study habits by college. Many schools do not reinforce study techniques to help their undergraduates grasp and apply the information. Only one teacher in my past has truly made me understand the fundamentals of the subject for…

Memory is a crucial concept in "The Things They Carried." While being a conventional ability, it is apparent that it contains its own misconstruction. Memory, which is the act of encoding and retrieving information, is vital in everyday life, while allowing individuals to recall both the positive and negative aspects. The readers are a witness to how memory is highlighted throughout the novel and are shown how memory is indeed significant. This novel provides the reader with an insight to the…

collection. The central theme of curation by loss is pointed out here in what we see and how we remember it; this is also backed up by the traits that she inherits from her grandfather like “Piano fingers” (7) which not stated there could point back to a memory of playing piano with her grandfather or rather observing her grandfather playing the piano. Parms does a great job of challenging the reader to think along the lines of how she thinks life works, but by using her theme in the book she…

comprehension. Learning “occurs when practice or experience causes a relatively permanent change in an individual’s knowledge, behaviour or attitudes. The change may be deliberate or unintentional, for better or for worse” (Hill, 2002). Thus learning encompasses three main approaches mentioned above behavioural, cognitive and constructivist. According to Gredler et al “Behavioural psychologists emphasize observable changes in behaviours, skills, and habits”(Gredler, 2005; Swartz & Wasserman,…

Each system is intelligent and works by using a series of procedures to complete tasks that range from difficult to elementary. Memory is one of the most important structures humans rely on. The Pixar film, Inside Out helps depict the science behind memory and show just how monumentally imperitive it is. Inside Out demonstrates how the three different processes of memory: encoding, storage, and retrieval are vitialy critical to all living things. The first step, encoding is the rendering…

Who is My Audience? I’m writing this article for The Ubyssey; therefore, my audience is the general student body population of UBC. More specifically, it’s towards first time college students who have been scarred by a decline in their grades. The students who confused and surprised by the amount of work that is expected of them, and don’t know how to manage their time wisely. Its to aid those who are naively spending hours on a studying method that simply wont reap them the grades they’re…

children also serve as witnesses in forensic investigations and proceedings, especially in cases involving sexual abuse, or in cases where there may be no visible evidence or physical indications of a crime, therefore relying on the child’s eyewitness memory (Hobbs et al., 2014). Ever since colonial times in the United States, there has been a great deal of skepticism about the testimony of child witnesses, until the 1970s and 1980s when there was an increase in empirical research on the…

controversial topic in today’s society. Everybody from local potheads, to priests, are talking about marijuana. Researchers have studied the psychological effects of marijuana on an adolescents’ (14-17) and adult’s brain, such as their impulsivity, attention, memory and decision making. Hypothesis Ultimately because marijuana is such a controversial topic, researchers have decided to study marijuana and its lasting effects, mostly on adolescents, because “one out of ten teens said they smoke…