Working memory

Amnesia in general refers to a deficit in memory and it is divided into anterograde amnesia or retrograde amnesia depending on whether the deficit is for information that was acquired before or after the onset of the deficit. Most of the times this condition occurs in relative isolation (Rosenbaum, Murphy, & Rich, 2012, p. 47) and other cognitive domains including reasoning abilities, attention, remote memory and skill acquisition or procedural memory generally remain preserved (Duff, Wszalek,…

Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on our Capacity for Processing Information. Miller found the average human learns in “chunks.” When we first hear information, it is stored in our short-term memory. Short-term memory capacity is low. In order to retain information effectively, it must be stored in long-term memory. In order for this to occur, information must be…

give their account of what occurred in relation to the trial which is based upon human perception and memory (Geoffrey M Stephenson, 1992 Psychology of Criminal Justice, p161.) “The reliability of eye witness testimony is a vastly complex subject” (Bruce Schneir 2012). When eyewitness testimony is obtained immediately after an event…

person has experienced some degree of brief memory failure in their lifetime. Being quite an inconvenience, memory failure can span from a few seconds to multiple years. Memory is a key component of everyday life and would be near impossible to live without. Unfortunately, many problems can interfere with even the sharpest of memories. There are many potential consequences of memory failure that can affect not only ourselves, but others as well. The human memory has no limited capacity; how does…

Explains Memory? Memory is an extremely complex function which scientists and philosophers have been trying to explain since ancient times. Throughout the years they have been attempting to devise an effective analogy to explain memory, with varying effectiveness. One of these analogies comes from Plato in his works Theaetetus and Phaedrus, in which he compares memory to a block of wax on which we imprint our experiences. Another analogy comes from Mary Carruthers in her book The Book of Memory:…

According to Broderick/Blewitt it 's described as a memory strategy that requires finding or creating some kind of meaningful link between to-be- remembered items, such as creating a story that includes all the items. Ashley Barry remembers the numbers for her locker combination by giving the numbers meaning…

confessing memories had healed her patient’s heart, “Through our work together I realized that some things which can never be fixed can still heal.”(136). Remen’s patient, Ana, had suffered mentally and physically through her early years. Her strong desire to survive has caused her to forget to live. Through their therapy sessions Ana confesses her painful memories and stories. Remen had became the “witness” of her memories. All these years Ana had surrounded herself with such dark memories but…

rely on sense perception and memory as ways of knowing? My short-term memory has never been something to be praised, I was asked what I had for lunch three days ago, I sat there momentarily thinking about the lunches that I had over the previous days, after a little while I told the person that asked me that I could not answer. I have always had greater confidence in my long-term memory, I generally find it to be more accurate and easier to recall than more recent memories. Other people might…

This sleep deprivation study titled Maternal sleep deprivation at different stages of pregnancy impairs the emotional and cognitive functions, and suppresses hippocampal long-term potentiation in the offspring rats was conducted by six researchers known as Peng, Y., Wang, W., Tan, T., He, W., Dong, Z., Wang, Y., & Han H. They proceeded with this study by obtaining male and female Sprague–Dawley rats from Chongqing Medical University Animal Care Centre. Next, they took these rats to the…

How To Avoid An All-Nighter “Don 't you hate when your hand falls asleep and you know it will be up all night” by Steven Wright. We all have pulled an all-nighter; Us college students, Professors, people who works and have paper work to do, people who are fixing something, people who has a career, etc. What are the reasons? Sometimes it’s just us when were lazy or got a lot of stuff to do or for college students, work is on the way. Unfortunately this will happen to every person once or multiple…