The Long Valley

short-term memory. This storage is capable of holding roughly seven items of information for approximately 15 to 20 seconds.” (Foster, 2011) Short-term memory is very restricted and needs to make room for all original knowledge coming in consistently. “Long-term is a more permanent storage, hoarding information over hours, days or years. This information can take the form of declarative memories, which include simple facts or specific episodes in your life, or procedural memories to do with…

Classical music to enhance short-term memory Problem Statement: In cognitive science, memory is one of the most researched topics, specifically short-term memory. The long-term memory storage depends on the short-term memory, ability to retain information. Short-term memory should not be underestimated since almost every process of cognition depends on it: reasoning, problem solving, and learning new concepts to name a few, (Marshuetz, 2005). As we see, memory is essential for studying. Memory…

organizes and alters it as it stores it away, and then retrieves the information from storage.” (Ciccarelli, Harrigan, Fritzley. (2010) pg. 230) We have insane amounts of memory stored inside our brains that are divided between Sensory, short term and long term memory. Throughout the day we access these parts of the brain without even noticing it. So then if our memory has unlimited capacity, then why do we forget? Our organization plays a huge role…

objects. The list includes similar sounding names (e.g. cat, bat, and hat) and objects that do not sound the alike (e.g. book, handle, door knob). Student’s performing well in recalling dissimilar words, especially of short length in comparison to long words gives evidence for the phonological similarity and word length effect, respectively. The role of imaging the objects in their mind’s eye is an example of the use of visuospatial sketchpad of working memory. Moreover, central executive will…

discovered by the researchers that she was able to recall the lists with the same amount of accuracy two hours after the information was presented to her, and subsequently two months after. When asked about how C was able to recall the information across a long period of time, she stated that each number had a specific colour associated with it that she could visualize in her mind’s eye and the association did not ever change. Her…

Interview Assignment The person I interviewed is named Tom and he is sixty four years old. He is in the middle adulthood period of life. An individual in middle adult is between young adult and elderly, approximately 45 to 65 years of age, 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,…

Propaganda was widely used in the first world one. They were many different parties, especially in Germany, and each one wants the population to join their party. One of these parties is the Nazi party. The leader of the Nazi party was Adolf Hitler. He gave many persuasive speeches in order to win the German nation, which he then did. One of the famous and well know speech he gave was the “Proclamation to the German Nation”. He gave this speech on February 1st, 1933. it is a great example of…

technology industries. Competition between Microsoft and Apple has been ongoing for several years. When people buy any sort of electronic device they look for three things: is it a good product? Will it offer me everything I wanted? And will it last long? Customers aren’t aware of the different parts and functions that may be included in the devices such as RAM and Disc. Without knowledge of these parts, how are clients suppose to evaluate whether these are better for their investments or not?…

Quiz on Vargha-Khadem paper 1. How does Tulving describe the two main types of memory? Tulving describes two main types of memory: Semantic and Episodic Memory. Tulving described the semantic memory as “context free” memory due to its fact oriented nature. In contrast, he called the episodic memory “context rich” memory, since recollection of the episodic memory is often enriched with details and emotional connections about the event. Both semantic and episodic memories are types of…

Introduction Memory is the process of encoding, storing and retrieving of memory. Encoding is where information is taken into our memory, storing is where we store information into our brains and retrieving is where we retrieve information from our brain. Although we are prone to memory reconstruction which is when we store our memories but recall it differently. This is largely due to our schemas but sometimes it may be due to other factors. Bartlett’s War of the Ghosts study was conducted to…