819 Search Results for Memory Experiments
Modality and Frequency on Serial Recall
As noted by Ari & Faith (2012), individuals studying written texts show superior recall of material, versus subjects who have the same texts read to them aloud. This is true on tests of free recall, match Continue Reading...
Results
The results of the experiment were that performance remained consistently good in all subjects until they reached the 8-digit sequence. All four of the subjects successfully remembered the 4-digit, 5-digit, 6-digit, and 7-digit sequences a Continue Reading...
Hearing the sound of a large truck that sounds similar to a garbage truck will also remind me.
Some cues make remembering easier as well, by being a specific reminder. If someone asked me if I had done everything I needed to do today, I might remem Continue Reading...
In the end of the nineteenth century, research experiments were carried out on memory. In this period, the memory dominated by the symbol of evolutionary development in nature. In nineteenth century, many new technologies were developed such as radi Continue Reading...
The other group of participants was asked to identify the same words with missing letters, but without having first been primed by viewing the list of words spelled out completely. Each individual's response time in recognizing the incomplete words Continue Reading...
Though Kellogg developed a study with significant findings, working memory can effect more than just sentence generation. Because "heavy loads" on working memory do affect sentence generation, it is reasonable to assume that they might also affect s Continue Reading...
267266 correct context of schema, 2.016461 correct no context of schema, 2.12909 correct context to List B. And 2.353001 correct no context.
Free recall refers to remembering unrelated items in any order immediately following presentation. Delayed r Continue Reading...
Rumors of the impact of repressed memory are prevalent, "yet data on cognitive functioning in people reporting repressed and recovered memories of trauma have been strikingly scarce" (McNally 2011). Part of the explanation for this lack of evidence Continue Reading...
foundational scientific literature regarding memory and learning. Memory and learning have long been popular subjects of study by psychologists. Although the results of such studies were very insightful, it was difficult to draw deeper, more fundame Continue Reading...
Psychology
Memories are an important part of the human experience. They help us define who we are, based on our past experiences, the people we have met, the places we have been and the things that we have done. Yet, there is much that we take for g Continue Reading...
Learning and Cognitive Psychology Related to Memory
Memory has control over everything that an individual does and is a part of cognitive psychology that deals with all the human behavior and mental processes. It is divided into different categories Continue Reading...
Memory and Witness Retrieval
Annotated Bibliography
Chan, J.C., & LaPaglia, J.A. (2011). The dark side of testing memory: Repeated retrieval can enhance eyewitness suggestibility. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 17(4), 418.
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Ross et al. (2010) placed electrodes at specific points on participants' skulls that were used to apply small electrical charges at various times during the experiment, while no charge or "dummy charges" (a charge that provided the same sensation as Continue Reading...
One factor that can enhance information flow in memory is whether or not we are paying attention to stimuli around us. If we are paying attention to our environment, we are much more likely to remember distinct things occurring. Distractions can gr Continue Reading...
Memory
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Sensory memory
Meaningful organization
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Criminology: Memory and the LawMemory has ample implications in the field of law for detecting a true criminal and the defenders who are struggling to prove themselves innocent. The journey from the investigator seeking for the truth to the final ver Continue Reading...
Memory and Forgetting: A Comprehensive Analysis
Memory loss is a huge problem in an aging population.
No substantive cure for memory loss.
Forgetfulness does not always accompany aging.
Different types of memory loss:
Forgetfulness
Dementia
Al Continue Reading...
Memory
A learning culture is an organizational practice, system and values that encourage and support individuals and organizations to increase performance levels, competence and knowledge. It promotes continuous support and improvement for an achiev Continue Reading...
Learning & Memory
The Accuracy of Memory
The research I completed for this assignment was fairly straightforward. Upstairs in my living room on a day in which I had yet to leave the house, I tried to imagine my front door. I did so without havi Continue Reading...
The researchers hypothesized that the participants would be less likely to use the operand retrieval strategy in solving difficult problems than with simple problems. It is easier to use the operand retrieval strategy with simple problems because so Continue Reading...
Windy McNernev and Robert West (2007), both with the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, India, explain that returning the DVD while running errands depicts an illustration of effective prospective memory. Substantial documentation signifies that Continue Reading...
Repressed and recovered memory has been the topic of much debate for the past ten years. Many feel that these psychological issues have been used to create chaos in the legal system and to destroy families. Professional organizations all over the wor Continue Reading...
Mock Research Experiment: The Generation Effect
This research study plans to look at and analyze the generation effect. The generation effect is the finding that self-generated stimuli will be both recalled and recognize with better performance than Continue Reading...
The specific categories include the following:
1) color;
2) smell;
3) texture;
4) temperature; and 5) feelings.
FINDINGS of the STUDY
The following table labeled Figure 1 in this study states the responses given by participants in both groups Continue Reading...
A Proposal for Research
Introduction
Background/Review of Literature
Cognitive effort, defined as the “engaged proportion of limited-capacity central processing,” has been found to impact memory recall but only in specific settin Continue Reading...
This will help to eliminate the possibility of psychological effects on the results. Group a will receive the caffeinated coffee and Group B. will receive the Decaf. Group a will serve as the test group. Group B. will serve as the control group. The Continue Reading...
Milgram
Obedience, Morality and the Scientific Process in Milgram
During the period between 1963 and 1974, social psychologist, professor and theorist Stanley Milgram published a landmark series of findings regarding the nature of morality, authori Continue Reading...
Eyewitness Testimony and Memory Issues
When investigating and prosecuting crimes and other incidents, their can be a heavy level of reliance on eyewitness testimony to substantiate the facts that are suggested by other evidence and to fill in missi Continue Reading...
Fallibility of Memory
The human brain is an amazing thing. Scientists argue that every experience we have ever had is located within the brain as a memory, even ones we are not aware that we have. Memory is something which dominates a person's life. Continue Reading...
Emotions and Memory
Emotions, memory, and Freud
Emotion and memory
Describe how emotion influences memory for details and how non-emotional events are remembered.
Emotion can have a measurable impact on what and how different environmental stimul Continue Reading...
Stressed Memories (APA Citation)
Stressed Memories
In the article titled "Stressed Memories: How Acute Stress Affects Memory Formation in Humans" researchers studied the hypothesis that acute stress can improve the formation of memory in the human Continue Reading...
Sam Stone! And guess what he did this time? He asked to borrow my Barbie and when he was carrying her down the stairs, he accidentally tripped and fell and broke her arm" (570)) Following Sam's actual visit, an interview conducted in an informal sty Continue Reading...
As our kayak flipped over, and my shoulder touched the water, I had a brief moment of panic. Looking back, I realize that the feeling of fear that swept over me at that second was the feeling that our instructor wanted all of us to feel. He wanted u Continue Reading...
Although some memories remain veritable and intact from the original experience, many memories are inextricably mixed up with post-analysis and interpretation. Furthermore, the authors examine psychological literature for information on memory proce Continue Reading...
Path analysis procedures demonstrated that the participants' verbalization of the critical lures during the encoding process predicted their own levels of false recall of words in the lists. In short, encoding could be manipulated (deliberately even Continue Reading...
false memories. Research indicates that many subjects of abuse or other traumatic occurrences often develop false memories. They remember events either differently than they actually occurred, or they forget them entirely. One study by Doctors Roedi Continue Reading...
Traumatic Long-Term Memory and related issues of forgetfulness. The differentiation of current competing theories under review regarding Traumatic Long-Term Memory are explored and critiqued. This research paper also explains the differences between Continue Reading...
Hypnosis in Memory Retrieval
In recent years there has been a myriad of books and articles written concerning the use of hypnosis and memory retrieval. Aside from the clinical application of hypnosis in treating a variety of psychiatric disorders, h Continue Reading...