...Memory Process Paper Kim Duncan Psychology 550 February 11, 2012 Susan Leonard, PhD Memory Process Memory is the capacity to encode, store and recall information. Memory consists of the procedures that are used to obtain, keep, recall and retrieve information. Encoding, storage, and retrieval are the three major processes involved in memory. In this paper, the author will address short term memory, long term memory, and working memory, as well as encoding and retrieval in the memory process. The author will also describe the selected test and analyze the result of the memory test and evaluate variables associated with encoding information and ease of retrieval. Working memory, short-term memory, and long-term memory Working memory is the capacity to actively store information in the mind required to do difficult tasks such as comprehension, learning, and reasoning. According to Terry (2009) working memory can be defined as memory that is operational and can be recall at any given time. There are two distinct phases of storage, short-term memory and long-term memory. Short-term memory is the capability to recall information over a short period. Information is stored for a limited time in short-term memory before transferring to long-term memory. In other others, when information is processed in short-term memory, it then moves the information to long-term memory. Forgetting usually occurs with short-term memory, if information is not moved to long-term memory. ...
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...Memory, broadly speaking, refers to our ability to retain information. There are various types of memories that a person uses to retain information of his/her interest. Some on permanent basis and rest is on temporary basis. Long term memory which is also a knowledge base of the user stores the information on permanent basis whereas short term memory (STM) allows the person to retain items for a short period of time. As per the research, a typical adult’s memory span is approximately 7 (between 5 and 9) unrelated items, called chunks (Miller, 1956). A person can retain this information in the short term memory for about 18 seconds without paying attention to it. After this period, information can be lost or replaced with new incoming information in the short term memory. Whenever user want to interact with the world using the information from the short term and long term memory, a third type of memory i.e. working memory (WM) comes into picture which helps us make decisions, and remember and retrieve facts. Since user actively use these memories while interacting with the computer systems, a designer have to carefully consider their respective limitations while developing the interface for optimal performance. User satisfaction is one of the key aspects that measures the success and popularity of a computer system or website. One important factor that contributes to user satisfaction is the response time of the system. Response time is generally measured as the number of seconds...
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...Describe and evaluate the multi store model? 12 marks. A01: * Found by Atkinson and Shiffrim (1968) and it states that you have three different types of memory; Sensory memory, short term memory and long term memory * It is a linear model. Therefore, information passes in one direction and if one of the memory box gets disrupted, then the others will too. For example, if your short term memory is disrupted, then your long term memory will also be disrupted. * Your first memory storage is Sensory memory. All information from the environment enters your sensory memory, which has a limited capacity and duration that lasts up to 2 seconds. The information you pay attention to, then gets passed to your short term memory. (ionic, echoic and haptic) * Your short term memory receives all the information that you have paid attention to. It has a duration that lasts up to 18 seconds and a capacity that can store 7+/-2 chunks of information. It is encoded acoustically (by sound). * Information only moves to your Long term memory if it is rehearsed. Your long term memory has a duration that is unlimited (up to a lifetime) and the capacity is also unlimited. It is encoded semantically (by meaning) * If the information in your short term memory is not rehearsed, then it can’t move on to your long term memory and later on it will be lost. [+] Glazer and cunitz (1996) gave participants a list of words presented one at a time and then tested their recalls. He...
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...Preview: I will explain 1) what is memory and the difference between short term and long term 2) And Explain many disease that affect memory in the human brain. 3) Also how you can train you mind to become more efficient with memory storage as well as usage. [Transition: Let me explain the basics.] Body . To help understand the concept I will explain, what is memory? Where in the brain is created and stored? The difference between the short term and long term memory. . Memories are created and stored in the temporal lobe and hippocampus of the brain. Smells, taste, sound, and visual aids can trigger a memory to come up. . There are three types of memories that work together to enhance learning and retention of events. 1. Short term memory deals with a person being able to remember a simple number sequence heard minutes before, even what you ate this morning or where you went last night. Usually stays for couple of days or even a week. 2. Long-term memories require more effort to achieve. Events that shock you usually go straight to long-term. 3. Sensory memories are due to a trigger in your environment causing your brain to associate the trigger with a certain memory. For example when ever I smell pinecones it brings up the time I went hiking with my family in the mountains in North Carolina. [Transition: Now that I explain ways of helping memory sharp, I will explain some diseases and how they affect memory loss. . Amnesia and Alzheimer’s disease...
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...Henry and Lucy enjoyed the company of each other, the next day they have met again but to Henry’s surprise Lucy couldn’t remember a thing. Later did Henry know that Lucy suffers from short term memory loss since the day Lucy and her father had an accident but Henry didn’t see this as a threat since he has already fell for Lucy, since then Henry would always do everything to make Lucy fall in love with him all over again each and every day. Reaction: In the movie 50 first dates Lucy suffered from anterograde amnesia according to my research it is when a person loses the capacity to form new memories (called Goldfield Syndrome in the movie) from an accident. This cause to damage her temporal lobe especially her hippocampal region and to forget a part of her memory of anything between the day of the accident and the present. Because she is incapable of converting short-term memories (can be called "working memory" which refers to our ability to hold on to information we are currently thinking about etc.) into long-term memories (in which data can be stored for long period of time). Lucy’s memories gained or experience prior to the accident is intact including people’s names, past events, where she lives, etc. In reality people who suffer from anterograde amnesia have trouble forming short-term memories after 10 minutes or so, making it impossible for Lucy to remember things from earlier in the day. In the movie, she is able to remember everything from the day up until she goes...
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...several stages to keep memory in human’s brain. In the other words, it is divided into three steps as the process of memory, from sensory to short-term to long-term memory. Sensory memory is the shortest memory in the brain. It received information through five senses of sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch, which last 1-3 seconds but retain accurately. For instance, people saw something and remembered what it looked like is an ability of sensory memory. Short-term memory (“working memory, which is essential for human cognition, can be thought of as a mental workspace or the brain’s notepad- a neural system for storing and manipulating small amounts of useful information.”) last 15-30 seconds and it is closely related to the process of sensory memory. If people receive new information without repeat old information, the new one will push out all information from brain. “Short-term memories can become long-term memory through the process of consolidation, involving rehearsal and meaningful association.” But when people rehearse information, it turns to long-term memory. Without rehearsal, the information is lost from the short-term memory and forgotten. Long-term memory is obviously stored information for a long period of time. [pic] Types of Human Memory: Diagram by Luke Mastin It is necessary to improve memory in different methods. People’s lifestyle is a based way to keep memory. Firstly, the food what we eat play a crucial role in human’s memory. “Fresh vegetables are...
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...that are involved in memory management, proving that the three stores present in multistore models are valid. It will do that by collecting evidence on both short- and long-term memory, by calculating the recency and primacy effects with regards to words recollection. Meeting this objective involved engaging 65 participants of both genders and were between 17 and 34 years of age. The participants were subjected to recall tests the included both high- and low-frequency words. The results showed that 75% of the respondents were female with the average participants’ age being 19.49 years and 81.5% of them being native English speakers. The results further showed that there were higher recall rates for both the first and last items, as opposed to the middle items that reported lower recall rates. Additionally, the high-frequency words reported higher recall rates for the first-word items than the low-frequency words. The research concludes that memory management makes use of both short- and long-term memory. Table of Contents Abstract 2 Introduction 4 Methodology 6 Participants 6 Apparatus 7 Design 7 Procedure 7 Results 8 Discussion 10 Conclusion 12 References 14 Appendix I 15 Primacy and Recency Effects Introduction From as early as mid 1960’s, there have been increasing evidence to support the suggestions that memory processes required different cognitive components (Parkin, 2014). The suggestions have been modelled on the notion that memory consists of discrete storage...
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...Velma Owens Psychology Individual Project Unit 4 Our memory capability is basically divided into three major parts according to a model that was developed in 1968 by Richard Atkinson and Richard Shiffrin. The three main parts of our memory is sensory, short-term, and long-term memory. Sensory memory is the main storage area for our memory bank. It is the brief processing center that gets all the reading from our five senses. Each sense makes its own sensory memory. Some of the sensory memories will go to the short-term file and what does not go there will be lost in a matter of a second or two. One example of sensory memory is lighting followed by a loud clap of thunder, these are processed by two different senses-the lighting is sight whereas the thunder was hearing. What goes on to our short-term is put in there by some awareness of our sensory stimuli that have some meaning to us. The next one is our short-term memory. This works between sensory and long-term memories. While in here the memory will only last about 15 to 25 seconds if it is not passed on to the long-term. There are several concerns in this area of our memory. Such as to how long we can hold information in our short-term bank but also how much we can hold in any memory bank because our storage is very limited, in which determines how much we can recall on the spot. According to Klaus Oberaver we only remember things in groups of seven. If we rearrange the groups to what is...
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...Experiment 4 Short Term Memory I. Objective To determine the capacity and limits of short term memory. II. Definition Short term memory (STM) is a limited-capacity store that can maintain unrehearsed information for about 10-20 seconds.In contrast, information stored in long term memory may last weeks,months or years. However, there is a way that you can maintain information in your short-term store indefinitely.Primarily, by engaging in rehearsal-the process of repetitively verbalizing or thinking about information. Without rehearsal information in short-term memory is lost in 10-20 seconds.(Nairne,2003) III.Abstract The objective of the experiment is to measure the capacity and limits of short-term memory.The experimenter conducted the experiment on 5 participants.Each subject was exposed to each of the stimulus consisting of rows of meaningless syllables.The experimenter let the subjects read the first row of letters in the following list just once then close their eyes and remember the correct sequence.Same procedure was done for the next rows.The experimenter records the outcome of the experiment. IV. Introduction Without rehearsal, information in short term memory is lost in 10-20 seconds (Nairne,2003) The rapid loss was demonstrated in a study by Peterson and Peterson (1959).They measured how long undergraduates could remember three consonants if they couldn't rehearse them.To prevent rehearsal,the Petersons required the students...
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...Memory Project: Application to Learning and Study Habits Erin Halbhuber Baker College Memory Memory is the capability to learn, retain, store and remember information from previous experiences. Memories are accumulated from prior experiences and recollected, which can influence change of behavior or thought. This ability can assist with learning and adapting to new experiences. Short-term memory is information a person is thinking of at that particular instant, it is also known as “working memory” (Morris & Maisto, 2013, p. 187). Short-term memory is the ability to remember and process information at the same time. “Short-term memory acts as a kind of “scratch-pad” for temporary recall of the information which is being processed at any point in time, and has been referred to as the brain’s Post-it note” (Short-Term Memory and Working Memory – Types of Memory – The Human Memory,” n.d.). When trying to recall a telephone number or a small number of items needed at the grocery store, this information is held for “fifteen to twenty-five seconds and is known as short-term memory” (Morris & Maisto, 2013, p. 195). The problem with short term memory is that only minimal amounts of information are remembered and for small periods of time. Long-term memory is information that is relocated from short-term memory, becoming permanent knowledge that can be recalled later. “No matter if it is a memory from 30 seconds ago or from last week; a memory has to be stored...
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...How is aluminum related to Alzheimer’s disease? Dead people who are diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease show a significant amount of aluminum in their blood. Live patients are normally diagnosed with dementia versus Alzheimer’s, because the only true way to be certain you have Alzheimer’s is by an autopsy. It’s proven that most people diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease have a high content of aluminum in their blood, but not all people with a high content of aluminum in their blood have Alzheimer’s disease. Things that contain aluminum that you may want to try to avoid, or at least read the labeling on are as follows: antiperspirants, drinking water, medications, and foods. If you use an antiperspirant deodorant you run into the risk of inhaling aluminum. Some foods that contain high aluminum are: potatoes, cornbread, and processed cheese. Some drinks are as follows: beer, tea, infant formula, and drinking water. As far as medications you want to watch over-the-counter meds especially antacids, and buffered aspirin. The average human intake is between thirty to fifty mg per day and drinking water is less than one forth of the daily intake we consume. There was also research done on aluminum cookware and cans. Researchers questioned whether using aluminum pans or utensils would have an effect of the amount of aluminum in your blood. It turns out that it would not affect on the high aluminum content unless you were cooking acidic foods in an aluminum pan, then...
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...attention and short-term memory processing are directly affected by a person's surroundings and environment. Two groups of individuals were tested on their attention and working memory performance, one group after a relaxed walk in a quiet park and the other group after navigating busy city streets. Those who had been walking the city streets scored far lower on the tests. ( 2 ). Memory is a very complex function that still to this day has not been fully understood. Short-term memory, also known as “working memory”, is the known as the ability to remember and process information at the same time. ( 2 ). Humans process the environment and its various stimuli on a conscious and unconscious level. Not every piece of information can be processed and therefore some information is ignored. The physiological aspects of memory are very complex but research has made progress in determining the various processes that occur in the brain. According to research, we can remember approximately 5 to 9 (7 +/- 2) bits of information in our short term memory at any given time (Miller, 1956) ( 3 ) This is very believable as most phone numbers in the United States are seven numbers, minus the area code. Yet, even as a sentence is read the beginning must be held in memory until the end in order to understand and make judgment and then take action. Neuroscientists often classify human memory into three types: declarative memory, such as storing facts or remembering specific events; procedural memory, such...
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...Stefany Martinez English 125-JK3 Prof. Cooper Draft #1 “How the Internet has changed life “ Artificial Intelligence is starting to take over the world. Lately, a huge majority of people would choose the internet to research information then through a book. Internet first went public in 1989, but it wasn’t until many years later that it became widely known or used. In the early nineties, the internet was in a completely different place from now. It was a text only web browser, which gave way to graphical web browsers with supported images that is used in today’s society. As more sites started to develop, an ecommerce took hold. By 2000, the internet truly went “Main-Stream”. With 20 to 30 years of being born, the internet has made major changes worldwide. In the beginning, many people suspected that the internet was an insignificant tool due to that few people had access to it. It now plays an essential role in day-to-day life. There are many different reasons why a person would need access to the internet. Some may use it for business purposes like advertising and marketing their business. While others may use the internet for a way of communication by socializing with family and friends worldwide through social media. As the internet has been revolving through the modern age, many question “Is the internet affecting my brain?” Well...
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...only to have it all stripped away in the end? Director Chris Nolan takes away everything you thought you knew of the traditional sense of film, and supplies you with a completely new fresh take on things. Memento is all about Leonard aka Lenny (played by Guy Pearce). Leonard suffers from short-term memory loss. His memory loss is so frequent he can never remember anything he has just learned. Add this to the fact he is searching for his wife’s killer, and you have a recipe for something unsettling. The story is so deeply layered, and intertwined, you must pay full attention, because every moment you will discover something new. Add to the facts, every scene of the movie is played in reverse chronological order. Imagine your favorite movie, and now imagine seeing the last 10 minutes 1st, then after the last 10 minutes is played you’re taken back to see the events 10 minutes before it. This cycle keeps repeating throughout the whole entire movie. What fun is it to give away the ending in the beginning? Oh, lots! Because Memento takes away what you think you may have known, but shows things are not what you once thought. As I mentioned before, Leonard has short-term memory loss. While confronting the people who broke into his home, Leonard was knocked in the head by his attackers. In return the bump created this condition of...
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...STAGES OF MEMORY DWIGHT CALDWELL Aspects of Pyschology-SSCI-1202B-01 Geoffery Hackert AIU May 17, 2012 The mind is designed to process thoughts, emotions and has the ability to maintain and reproduce memories. To fully understand the memory process one must look at how memory starts and how each stage is used to complete the process of memory. The model that this paper will discuss will provide definitions and examples of each stage and how the mind uses each to process each stage. The minds are somewhat like a Central Processing Unit that has the ability to multi-task and complete different assignments at a time. The first stage of memory is called sensory memory. This is when sensory information that comes from our five senses is stored for a brief period of time, which generally for no longer than a half-second for visual and information and 3 or 4 seconds for auditory information. We attend to only certain aspects of this sensory memory, allowing this information to pass into the next stage-short term memory (www.psychology.about.com/2012). An example of sensory memory would be a person smelling or tasting something that they did not like and being able to have a feeling of pleasure from the memory or a feeling of disgust because of the initial contact with the food or odor. Short-term memory also known as active memory, this is the process of information that we are aware of or are currently thinking about a certain thing. In language that is more common...
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