Short-term memory

whose psychological task, is generativity versus stagnation. I selected this period of development because my father is in this stage and I did not know much about this period. I will be covering vision, illness and disability, speed of processing, memory, siblings and friendships. Physical Development Beginning in the early to mid-40s, many adults may start to have problems seeing clearly at close distances, especially when reading and working on the computer. This is among the most common…

nagenthiram Memento is a psychological thriller directed by Christopher Nolan where we see the film through the perspective of the main character Leonard Shelby. Leonard has short term memory and only remembers certain glimpses of his past. The way this film is shot is through Leonard’s point of view where you see how his short term memory effects him with grasping things together and most of the time we’re just confused as he is. The film is shot backwards and is like a puzzle where we have to…

Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC-V). The areas of cognitive processing ability measured include crystallized intelligence, short-term memory, visual-spatial processing, reasoning ability, and processing speed. The subtests measured different cognitive processing abilities and when combined form five index scores: Verbal Comprehension, Visual-Spatial, Fluid Reasoning, Working Memory and Processing Speed, which makes up the Full-Scale IQ score. Devyn obtained a Low Average score of 86 (18th…

This difficulty to hold information in his short term memory was also noted when given multistep directions. Trent was unable to retain multiple pieces of information long enough to complete a task. Additionally, it is likely that Trent struggles with comprehension of both spoken and written language as…

you learn the more it becomes easy to apply it to class work. In 2004 Nature article reported that, “that people who learned how to juggle increased the amount of gray matter in their occipital lobes, the area of the brain is associated with visual memory” (Cherry, 2015). When you stop using that certain skill the gray matter will be gone so it is important to keep up with the news skills. Even learning things outside the classroom helps our brain develop skills to use in other times of our…

Introduce memory The analysis of human memory spans as far as 2000 years ago to Aristotle 's efforts to comprehend memory in his thesis "De Memoria" (Bloch, 2014). Following Aristotle, many advancements have been made in the knowledge of the human memory, and in 1878 the first scientific approach to studying memory was developed by Herman Ebbinghaus (Nadel & Nadel, 2005). Ebbinghaus categorised the three individual types of memory as sensory, long-term and short-term. (Ebbinghaus, 2013).…

recognition testing in mice where they have the ability to perceive certain objects by its physical features such as color, shape, size, texture to determine how your short-term memory works when one or two different objects are placed for a certain period of time. The term “object recognition” means exactly as it states, it is how the memory reacts to recognizing something they have seen before. For example, the study is conducted where the first session you are given two identical objects and…

Although this story was short in length, it did not lack material or value. It discusses how Gweneviere’s health rapidly declined after having a medical procedure to remove a large tumor from behind her left eye that was resting on her optic nerve, causing her to go blind. After having surgery and suffering a stroke due to the strenuous removal of the tumor, she was permanently diagnosed with short-term memory loss that frightens her every day. As stated in the text…

1) Chapter 2 in our text (Lefrancois, 2012) describes Guthrie’s theories for breaking habits. One bad habit that I struggled with was relentlessly twirling my hair when writing a paper. After reading the text I decided I could use Guthrie’s method of incompatible stimuli to break my habit. This method involves the stimulus being presented in a situation where the bad habit cannot happen (Lefrancois, 2012). To do this I would write my papers with my hair tied up in a ponytail. Doing this allowed…

not tell the subjects how they should study the words, I just gave them the words and told them to study them. “It is believed that, in general, encoding for short-term memory storage in the brain relies primarily on acoustic encoding, while for long-term storage is more reliant (although not exclusively on semantic encoding” (Martin “Memory Encoding”). So depending on how the subjects studied, the amount they were able to recalled could increased explaining why everyone who had higher results…