new potential treatment for depression to the underlying harms of smartphones. Specifically, the excerpt on erasing memories, titled “Erasing memories could be the future of addiction treatment”, caught my eye the most. The passage seemed promising at first, but it introduced a frightening concept as it progressed. First of all, the title approaches the concept of erasing memories in a hopeful, positive manner by asserting that it could be “the future of addiction treatment”. All in all, addiction
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explains the fact that when multiple people witness an event, they do not remember every detail correctly no matter how right they think they are. This segues into another fact that memory is not like a video camera and is not able to be played back at a later time to view the event. Loftus then elaborates on how memory remembers tragic events. In this example, she talks about the assassination of President Kennedy. The video moves on to another presenter, James L. McGaugh, a research professor
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In Lauren Slater's Opening Skinner's Box, the chapter of "Lost in the Mall" introduces a woman named Elizabeth Loftus, who believes memory is unreliable. I disagree the way Loftus tries to prove this belief through the way she tells sexually abused survivors what happened to them, didn't necessarily actually happened, I believe she has no right to say that in such a manner. An example that I disagree that Loftus should bluntly tell these survivors is through the instance that she doesn't necessarily
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“Moonwalking with Einstein”, Joshua Foer enfolds his adventure of how he won the USA memory championship. Joshua Foer is a journalist that happened to go and interview mental athletes at the USA memory championship. What impressed him the most was the fact that all mental athletes kept saying that they are average people and have average memories (2011, p.9). This intrigued Foer to become exceedingly interested in memory and memory training. He continued his research and interviews with mental athletes up
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What is memory? Memory is the ability of the brain to store, retain, and subsequently recalls information. Also, it can trigger what allow an individual to set up actions that occur when a certain condition has been met or an event has occurred. These events trigger the most flexible, distance, and time motions Therefore, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder; can cause a “human beings [to] harm [another] human beings it sets into motion.” While creating a problem that destroys relationships that will last
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days after a person sees a picture, your brain will remember 65% of what you saw. The hippocampus is where the brain stores memory. Our brain is 10 times bigger than scientists originally thought from recent studies. There are two different types of memory in the brain. Short term memory and long term memory. Episodic memory is the of memory of specific events. Short term memory causes your pre-frontal lobe to be very active. The brain remembers positive and negative information in two different hemispheres
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An example of a cognitive process is memory, remembering things. Flashbulb memories (FBM) are highly detailed, exceptionally vivid ‘snapshots’ of the moment and circumstances in which surprising and consequential (or emotionally arousing) events happened or news was heard. Brown and Kulik (1997) who were the first modern psychologists to study FBMs, defined them as ‘memories of the circumstances in which one first learned of a very surprising and consequential (or emotionally arousing) event’. The
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dimensions of development at each stage, which are physical, cognitive, personality and social. Physical development is the growth of my body and brain, sensory capacities, motor skills, and health. Cognitive development is Learning, attention, memory, language, thinking, reasoning, and creativity. Psychosocial Development is my emotions, personality, and social relationship’s. That’s exactly what I am going to be talking about. As an infant to the age I am right now I have had my ups and downs
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free time with his buddies, leaving me home alone most nights. I spent my days making crafts and growing flowers inside, selling them for cheap, trying to save enough to buy a camera so I could have pictures of my kids. I have no pictures of my childhood. By the time Bill had finished school. We had Lauri and Violet, twin girls at the age of two and another on the way. We had made plans to move that weekend into our five bedroom home that sat on twenty seven acres. There was three fenced areas.
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accuracy of eye witness testimony can be affected by factors such as misleading information, leading questions, post-event discussion and anxiety. Loftus and Palmer investigated how the language (leading questions) used in eyewitness testimony can alter memory. 45 students were shown 7 films of different traffic accidents. After each film the participants were given a questionnaire which asked them to describe the accident and then answer a series of specific questions about it. There was one critical.
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