820 Search Results for Memory Experiments
quiet room than in a noisy room.
Participants
Forty eight students attending to a class were participated and reported their first languages and their ages.
Materials
Twenty words were used to understand the nature of a context-based memory retr Continue Reading...
Wechsler Memory Scale-Third Edition (WMS-III)
This is a paper that reports and critiques the Wechsler Memory Scale-Third Edition (WMS-III). It has sources in APA format.
Standardized testing has become a norm for structuring studies on human behavi Continue Reading...
Music on Emotions and Behavior
Music and education
Psychological implications
The effect of music on word recall
Several studies have been dedicated to the study of the effect of music on the memory. Most of the studies have been dedicated to th Continue Reading...
Manipulating Variables in an Experimental Study
A variable is a factor that can be changed and generally can be measured. A dependent variable is the factor that is being measured in an experiment and it is the variable that the investigators expec Continue Reading...
The Human Genome Experiment and Its Implications for Health Care
History of Medical Technology: Implications of Changes in the Theory and Practice of Medical Care
Innovations in medical devices and health care technologies have generated new question Continue Reading...
Reductionism in Cognitive Neuroscience
Cognitive science is an interdisciplinary field encompassing various aspects of the study of the mind, including perception, reasoning, language, emotion and consciousness. Departing from the strictures of beha Continue Reading...
Obeying Authority
Human beings are all born with free will and the ability to choose for ourselves which actions to undertake, however this ability has been modified over time as we are trained to obey figures who we perceive to have authority over Continue Reading...
Memory, Identity, And Body
In a hypothetical situation, Barack Obama and Miley Cyrus are both involved in a horrific accident. As a result they are both horribly injured and only one can live. They undergo an operation wherein the parts of the brain Continue Reading...
Memory Recall
Author(s) First, Middle Initial (if applicable) and Last Name(s) in Starting with the Individual who Made the Biggest Contribution (not alphabetical)
This study examines the difference that categorization makes in memory recall exerci Continue Reading...
Music-Dependent Memory
The study conducted by William Balch and Benjamin Lewis is indented to analyze the extent to which music-dependent-memory fits into the overall and greater category of context-dependent-memory (CDM). The term is defined by the Continue Reading...
We will include studies concerning memory recall in elementary students.
Androes et al. (2000) asserts that memory recall is essential to reading comprehension in elementary students. The authors insists that reading comprehension is defined as the Continue Reading...
The chronological order of these studies, having started with most recent ones, also proves that constant advancements have been made in this particular arena. Thus, some important conclusions can be drawn for a further study.
First, in order to pr Continue Reading...
41+). Loftus notes that science has found "post-event information" is integrated into what most people have actually experienced because, "when people experience some actual event -- say a crime or an accident -- they often later acquire new informa Continue Reading...
False Identification and Lineup Instructions Biased/Unbiased
There are many instances where people have been wrongly accused only because they were falsely identified or either because there was not enough evidence present that would prove them guil Continue Reading...
Experimentation Critique
In viewing the field of education, the issue of students' lacking retention of material has long been associated with a teacher's inability to enforce learning materials in such a manner that every student within a class -- Continue Reading...
Biological and Psychological Basis of Learning and Memory:
The human brain is the core of each function of the body that controls operational learning and memory and the interdependence of each of the concepts. The way with which the brain functions Continue Reading...
Psychology is an important field of study mainly because it can be used to enhance the lives of people as it increases an individual's level of self-understanding, well-being, and quality of relationships. The main reason for the impact of psychology Continue Reading...
Human Rights and Ethics in Research
The nurse who observed that the research participant did not recall signing the consent papers and did not remember the details of the research project to which he had agreed to participate should have stopped the Continue Reading...
Visual Consciousness
Visual Perception
In conducting this study, the first step I took was to procure a book with a cover on it that I would attempt to read. I have read most of my books, but am unfamiliar with the text on the front of them. I act Continue Reading...
Ginko Biloba
Gingko Biloba -- Part I
What are the author's general conclusions (summarized) on the effectiveness of Gingko Biloba as a cognitive enhancer?
According to the author, effects of Gingko on cognition are perplexing because of its dual a Continue Reading...
In fairness, Milgram did not anticipate that the research subjects would experience as much stress as they did during the experiment.
Second, the experiment raises a serious ethical issue in that it held the potential for causing long-term harmful Continue Reading...
Floating Point Numbers
With the proliferation of increasingly complex software and hardware that perform tasks as varied as financial calculations or scientific experiments, the arithmetic involved in these operations has also grown cumbersome. Simp Continue Reading...
Manifestation of speech and language disorders in children with hearing impairment compared with children with specific language disorders" examined the relationship between language deficits among children with hearing impairment (HI) compared to t Continue Reading...
Head
Recognizing Faces
There is a region in the brain, called the fusiform face area or FFA, which is vital in recognizing and distinguishing faces (Andrews et al., 2010). Brain scientists have been acquiring an understanding of the mechanisms, wh Continue Reading...
Human Languages
Is there a continuum of intelligence from animal to human, or are humans unique in terms of memory, thinking, or language?
A child crosses several stages of development before a child ultimately becomes an adult and then completes h Continue Reading...
Within each of these are discriminatory and generalized patterns of learning; and can be incorporated into learning models.
My own learning style is a combination of listening (learning from others) and then doing. It depends on the material; for a Continue Reading...
Another theorist with a different view is Chomsky (1988). Chomsky sees the acquisition of language as a process of input-output, what he calls a Cartesian view of language acquisition and language structure. He states: "We have an organism of which Continue Reading...
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Over time, from one second to the next, human behavior constantly changes, contributing to the fact that human behavior, consequently human cognition, constitutes a dynamic process. (Thelen and Smith, 1994). Communication, also a continuous inter Continue Reading...
limit your summary to 8 sentences.
The research area is in cognitive processes related to performance, skill learning, and execution. It is related to research on mathematics anxiety, stereotype threats, and how those factors affect performance on Continue Reading...
Pleasant vs. Unpleasant Stimuli on Free Recall
Memory is a mental process where information is encoded, stored, and then retrieved at sometime in the future. There is the great deal of research attempting to ascertain what particular factors associ Continue Reading...
classical conditioning by Pavlov and its current use in treating anxiety
The paper focuses on the development of classical conditioning being used, as suggested by Pavlov, in treating anxiety through using fear-induced techniques. The paper talks a Continue Reading...
The next day he got an a on the test. Can he conclude that eating lots of popcorn is a necessary condition for memorizing psychology information? Why or why not?
No, Todd cannot draw that conclusion from the limited experiment he conducted. First o Continue Reading...
Discovering Statistics
Music Valence and Gender Influence Word Recall Task
A person's state of arousal can determine how well their memory functions. This phenomenon is readily apparent when persons experiencing a traumatic event find it difficult Continue Reading...
Attitude and Attitude Change
Attitudes and Attitude Change: A Comparison of Two Studies
The introduction written by Albarracin and Handley (2011) began with a historical foundation for the study of psychological change and then proceeded with a det Continue Reading...
Experimental Design for Hypothetical Research Study
Recent research has emerged which suggests that the ingestion of chocolate may lead to improved cognitive function within the realm of memorization and retention of information. Establishing a conc Continue Reading...
Experimental Research and Report Writing
Research has shown that organizational strategies aid in memorization tasks such as word recall. Several studies have shown the effectiveness of using organizational strategies such as hierarchical categoriz Continue Reading...
Identity
Williams on Identity
In a series of relatively simple though complexly-worded (out of necessity) thought experiments regarding body-swapping and changes to memory and the mind, Bernard Williams attempts to demonstrate that identity should Continue Reading...
Gender and Smell Recognition
There has been a significant amount of speculation about innate gender differences in thought, cognitive ability, and the relative strength of certain senses. One of area that has received some attention is the ability t Continue Reading...
Threat or perception of threat is best described by protection motivation theory:
This theory states that the extent to which people show preventive behavior in light of a threat depends on their protection motivation (R. W. Rogers, 1975, 1983). Ac Continue Reading...