The article, “The Digit Span Backwards Task: Verbal and Visual Cognitive Strategies in Working Memory Assessment”, by Hilbert, Sven, Tristan T. Nakagawa, Patricia Puci, Alexandra Zech, and Markus Buhner, aims at investigating the differences in performance between visualizers and verbalizers cognitive strategies by using digit span backwards. The digit span backwards has been used for many decades to assess the working memory capacity. The concept of working memory initiates the way we are able…
Imagine this, you finally saved up enough money for a down payment on the new car you’ve always dreamed of owning. The big day arrives and you go to the dealership, test drive several cars and finally decide on the one you want to purchase. The sales person directs you to the finance department to complete the sales transaction. After filling out all the forms to get a car loan and anxiously waiting for what seems like an eternity, the salesperson delivers some horrible news to you, “You have…
19% percent of students graduating high school in America are illiterate and 32,000,000 adults can not read. The amount of food waste generated by the US could eradicate world hunger four times over and veterans who have had their legs blown off by IEDS in Afghanistan are waiting ten to fifteen years to receive their benefits after serving this country. Meanwhile, childhood poverty does not exist in Norway. India, France, Russia, and most other industrialized as well as non-industrialized…
Social media are websites and applications that enable users to create and share content or to participate in social networking. Social media is not just one place it’s a network of many places on the internet that primary share information. People use it for many reasons some good some bad. It’s a place to share ideas and sometimes people turn it into a warzone. People use social media in many different ways, both good and bad, and through but negative aspects outweigh the positive.…
Memory is a process of encoding, storing, and retrieving information. It is the total sum of who we are and what we know. It is also absolutely crucial in everything we do and affects how well we do it. A large variety of studies have already been conducted on memory and show that there are different types of memory. In their study, Luo and Craik (2008) looked at the effects of age on memory and found that aging contributes to increasing difficulty to complete complex memory tasks. There’s a…
seconds. There was a probe item that measured the participant’s memory for recall, with a total of 60 trials. Computer specific details were provided. The “n” key was used to start the next trial, the “m” key was used to answer yes when the probe number had appeared in the test trial and the “z” key if it had not. Procedure Every participant had to log onto the class’s subscription based website coglab.com and sign into their individual…
Developing a social media strategy isn 't exactly a task for the faint of heart. It takes research, time, and effort to craft an effective approach. And with the number of variables you face in the process, one successful campaign doesn 't automatically translate to future success. One of the biggest issues I run into is the difference between a social media strategy, and a social media outreach strategy, so I decided to clear up confusion. Outreach should be factored into your overall social…
Eric’s cognitive abilities were assessed through the use of the Wechsler 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 measure different cognitive processing abilities, combining to form five index scores: Verbal Comprehension, Visual-Spatial, Fluid Reasoning, Working Memory and Processing Speed which all together…
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).…
The bigger an athlete’s contract gets, the more well known he becomes. In the last decade or so, many very well known athletes have been signing record breaking multi-million dollar contracts. What gives franchise owners the right to put a price on someone way over someone else. All players are playing the same sport therefore, they should all make an averaged salary. Following that, giving all this money to these athletes can potentially endanger their lives. Not to forget that all this money…