Short-term memory

key components of being able to learn new information is an individual’s ability to retain information. For this reason, a key focus in developing more effective learning strategy is memory, which is responsible for retaining and accessing information to recall previously learned concepts. The significance of memory has been stressed in learning strategies focused on teaching and improving early reading skills in young children. In teaching children to read during the early stages, the most…

Is the glass half full or half empty? Was half empty to start with, or is it possible that humanity’s virtues somehow evaporated over time? If so, how? Jonathan Swift poses these philosophical questions in his satirical novel Gulliver’s Travels by journaling the adventures of Lemuel Gulliver on his voyages to bizarre and magical islands. Each represents an extreme path mankind could have taken or may take in the future, its consequences, and the observations of a modern observer. His allegory of…

Mistaken behavior is errors in judgement and actions made in the process of learning life skills. Many times we confuse mistaken behavior with misbehavior but it’s quite different. According to Sarah Smith misbehavior implies that it was intentionally, while mistaken behavior implies that it was unintentional. It is easy to say a child is misbehaving by his wrongdoing but we don't think about the cause of his actions. Sometimes children make mistakes like we do but, it is important that we take…

Criticisms and Current Uses of the Rorschach Test The Rorschach Inkblot test is a psychological test that is used to determine certain mental disorders and hidden personalities. The inkblot test can provide some very innovative insights into someone’s unconscious, including hidden personalities and feeling. But it is frequently questioned for it’s validity and reliability. The Rorschach Inkblot test is highly controversial for many reasons but is still widely used today. Before someone…

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…

Any types of memories that involve strong emotions tend to leave a permanent marks in our system and all it takes is a moment. Yet, it takes more times to process general knowledge and experiences into our memories. General memories had to be pair up with effective retrieval cues in order to be more easier to access. While for memories associated with strong emotions, all we need is to witness a traumatic event. Psychologically, they are known as flashbulb memories. However, no matter how…

of the main aspect is that people are reluctant to adopt change, even if it is something that will benefit them, despite their tradition resting purely on faulty human memory. Human memory is key for traditions, to the point than many people write down their traditions so that they don’t forget them, realizing how flawed human memory is. The ritual with the black box has gone on so long that “the original paraphernalia for the lottery had been lost long ago, and the black box [which] rest[..] on…

Helen Thomson of the BBC reported on aphantasia, which is a condition where a person is unable to form mental imagery, or imagine things. Aphantasia fits into cognitive neuroscience, because it related to people’s mental perceptions. Cognition plays a role, but more in a lack of there of sense because people with aphantasia have the inability to creat images with their mind. In the article, Thomson reports about a person named Philip, who had no idea that people had the ability to create mental…

possession, which is greater than the pleasure of acquiring that possession (Feng et al., 2013). Furthermore, studies have found that objects acquired in this context can have different memory traces and might have an effect on recognition memory (Feng et al., 2013). In fact, how those objects are encoded in the memory might differ from those stranger to that person (Feng et al., 2013). In addition, the concept of self can be extended to people, refer as the extended self (Kim & Johnson, 2012).…

however, even if a person remembers committing the crime. Julia Shaw and Stephen Porter published a study in 2015 that examined the general hypothesis: It is possible to create a false memory of committing a crime. They used a sample of 60 undergraduate students to test the following specific hypothesis: False memories of committing a crime along with police contact while in adolescence can be developed by young adults in an experimental setting. The purpose of this study was to determine if…