Read-only memory

In essence, everyone lives their lives in the same basic fashion: a constant cycle of encoding and storing new memories, along with the retrieval of old ones. Granted, there are those exceptions to the norm, but in the grand scheme of things they are really the outliers. Now since our brains don’t function like a video camera perfectly capturing every moment of our lives, we have to work earnestly in order to remember every minute detail which is deemed important or necessary. This is where…

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…

in everyday mundane tasks, instead of improving. In his essay, Foer discusses how technological advancements have allowed for human’s to do a more superficial style of reading, where we no longer remember what we read because it is no longer a necessity. Reading and retaining what we read is a skill and one that has lost importance slowly throughout time. Foer discusses how psychologists have found there are three stages to learning a new skill. There is the cognitive stage where we actively…

depends on our memories to some degree; especially our working memory (Baddeley, 1992). To understand many of our cognitive processes (problem solving, cognition, attention, etc.) one needs to understand the abilities and limits of memory. This information also translates into practical reasons as well. We rely on our memories to make judgements on significant events ranging from eyewitness testimony, to winning an argument with our significant other over who said what. All in all, memory…

because the reader can let everything sink in. An example of where this has been used effectively is Four Skinny Trees, “They are the only ones who understand me. I am the only one who understands them… Four who do not belong here but are here… Their strength is secret. They send ferocious roots beneath the ground… Four whose only reason is to be and be.” (Page 75) Not only do these sentences cause the reader to think deeper about what she has said, but they also help to convey the more intense…

In American people are accustomed to a certain way of life. Most do not fear having to be told what to do with their life or with matters of personal and individual privacy. However, China has a different life-style. A lifestyle I had only heard at one point in my life in passing or seen briefly on the television on in movies. I would have never known how life was actually like if I did not have the privilege of working side-by-side at Citizens Bank and Trust with a woman named Liping Cai.…

This research article by Steven J. Frenda, Lawrence Patihis, Elizabeth F. Loftus, Holly C. Lewis and Kimberly M. Fenn, aims to further the research on false memories and how they occur by looking into the role of sleep deprivation. 2 experiments were conducted; experiment one contained 193 undergraduates from the University of California, experiment 2 contained 104 undergraduates from Michigan State University. In each experiment there was a sleep deprived group and a rested group. In experiment…

and seventeen were tested to know how best teenagers are with memory recall, both verbally and visually. Participants were selected using convenience sampling; posters were distributed to the schools and interested students signed in the principal’s office. The methods section discussed how the experiment was conducted; the participants were given stories that incorporated two genres. Half of the participants were given the story to read, while the other half learned the story verbally. The…

Moonwalking with Einstein: The art and Science of Remembering is a nonfiction book based on many cases of people with spectacular memories by Joshua Foer. The reader gets to learn about all of these cases where events or environment has caused someone to increase their memory or decrease their memory. I learned about all of these cases of incredible memory like Daniel or Kim Peek who inspired the 1988 academy award winning movie Rain Man. He was a savant who could not use logic or reasoning…

Self-Assessment Analysis For the purpose of this exercise, I performed the VARK (Visual, Auditory, Read/Write, Kinesthetic) Self-Assessment. Upon completion of the self-assessment, I was presented with the results, which were Visual 2, Aural 3, Read/Write 4, and Kinesthetic 7. This translates into a slight preference for Kinesthetic learning, in which I am more apt to learn from actually performing a task than attempting to simply hear about how it is performed, watching it be performed, or…