Working memory

developed by Geiselman and Fisher (Fisher, Geiselman, & Amador, 1989; Geiselman, Fisher, MacKinnon, & Holland, 1985). Because one of the primary goals of the cognitive interview is to encourage witnesses to use a variety of retrieval routes in their memory search, the retrieval variability afforded by such a technique,…

language and memory. Journal Of Verbal Learning And Verbal Behavior, 13, 585-589. The article “Reconstruction of automobile destruction: An example of the interaction between language and memory” by Elizabeth F. Loftus and John C. Palmer was to investigate whether different verbs used to describe an automobile accidents would alter participants’ memory remembering the automobile accidents. The problem being adressed is how the different verbs could affect the witnesses’ memories. The…

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) involves brain atrophy in areas of the core network (i.e. prefrontal, parietal and temporal cortices; McKee et al., 2006). These regions have been implicated in episodic memory (EM), memories for events related to one’s personal past (Buckner et al., 2005), and mental simulation for the future (Addis, Wong, & Schacter, 2007; Hassabis, Kumaran, & Maguire, 2007). Episodic future thinking (EFT) refers to the ability to envision oneself in a future or imagined scene that one…

The Misinformation Effect: A Fact Sheet The misinformation effect (ME) can be defined as the change in people’s memories of an incident, after they are presented with false or misleading information about that incident (Gordon & Shapiro, 2012). For example, after watching a video of a woman shopping for green vegetables at a supermarket, it is easy to remember those vegetables. However, once misleading information such as, two other green vegetables are added to the original a list of…

Emotional Attentional Blink and Emotion Induced Blindness When talking to a layman about an emotion induced blindness (EIB), one would try to explain it as not being able to see an item because of a distraction caused due to emotional effects. For example – when a driver might not be able to see a scooter coming from the front because of an accident that had happened in front of him as well. So this accident is the negative distractor to the target scooter which must be attended in order to…

George Miller’s magical number 7, plus or minus two, helps confirm the capacity of short term memory (Miller, 1956). Most people 18 and over can hold 5 to 9 items in their short term memory (Miller, 1956). Miller believed that short term memory could only hold his magic number because of the limited “slots” in which memory could be placed in the brain. Miller reached this conclusion by getting the participants of the initial study to listen to a number of tones that were different by pitch.…

Introduction The world is inundated with the media and multitasking. Therefore, with information so readily accessible that it seems almost impossible for your working and short-term memory to retrieve and hold memory in the mind. This article investigated how the attention of impulse relates to level of which participants multitasked with the media. The study hypothesized that frequent multitasking induces psychosocial and cognitive differences or whether the participants with these differences…

The purpose behind this experiment is to see the Irrelevant Speech effect and its impairment on your ability to retain memories of a task due to an irrelevant background noise or speech. The question being posed here here is does a change in language cause an impairment on your ability to retain memories? The study went about solving this by conducting a test on a college cognitive psychology class using an application based off of ISE. The conclusion to this study was that the class supported…

Children, fifth edition (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 combine to form five index scores: Verbal Comprehension, Visual-Spatial, Fluid Reasoning, Working Memory and Processing Speed which all together make up the Full-Scale IQ score. Matthew obtained a score of 97 (42nd percentile),…

Memory is something that we all have to have to experience life. It is not good when we lose our memory at all. Being able to identify who we are is a part of our memory. There are levels in which memory works in order for us to know who we are and what we are made up of. When it comes to memory they are a lot of things that can affect it and make us different from one another. In my research, I am going to talk about Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, also known as, ADHD, and the part of…