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    Memory in Psychology

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    I. Memory: Processes‚ Models‚ Sensory Memory‚ Short-Term Memory A. Memory processes 1. Memory and Its Processes Memory - an active system that receives information from the senses‚ organizes and alters it as it stores it away‚ and then retrieves the information from storage. Processes of Memory: Encoding – converting sensory information into a form that is usable in the brain’s storage systems. Storage – holding onto information for some period of time. Retrieval – getting information that

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    How Night Vision Works

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    Declarative Memory

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    week‚ I read a study regarding the development of declarative memory in infants. The study was held at the University of Otago in 2000. The researchers utilized two experiments to follow changes in declarative memory‚ or explicit memory in infants over the course of the first 2 years of life. The researchers were interested in discovering information about the emergence of multiple memory systems in infancy. It is understood that memory functions as two or more systems; but when these systems emerge

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    Experiment on Memory

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    Abstract The aim of the study is to discover the effect caffeine has one ’s short term memory. The method used was a mixed design‚ a combination of the repeated measures and independent measures designs. The participants used were chosen from a sample opportunity‚ and all were twelfth grade Biology students. The results indicate that the lowest average score was that of the experimental group‚ after

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    Flash Memory

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    Flash Memory‚ Inc. faces stiff competition in an industry that maintains focus on new development and is challenged with ‘short product life cycles’ (Pg.2). Their future will be predicated on how they invest their cash flows and generate new business. This process will involve generating new financing and developing renovated product lines. Flash Memory‚ Inc. specializes in the production of Solid State Drives (SSD) which makes up 80% of their revenue. The remaining 20% is comprised of high end/

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    Episodic Memory

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    Sensory memory is the shortest memory in the human brain in terms of duration. Your sense of sight‚ sound‚ touch‚ taste and smell are inputs of the sensory memory. Due to the amount of information that is bombarded by the human brain during this process the brain picks what out what to pay attention to and processed into your sensory memory and the rest is lost forever. The information is then transferred to the short-term memory (working memory) can remember up to 7+/- 2 items of information to

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    Victim's Memories

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    now compared to who we were in the past (Fivush & Saunders‚ 2015). The conversation aspect of language has long been suspected of manipulating memories. As humans‚ expressing our past experiences can be uplifting‚ but we must pay attention to how we express them (Fivush & Saunders‚ 2015). Particularly studies found that childhood sexual abuse victim’s memories are manipulatable. Beginning with difficult conversations are harder to articulate because they carry consequences and emotional baggage (Fivush

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    Babylonian Memory

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    However‚ Babylon continues to live in competing strands of popular memory. For within the strands of popular memory‚ Hammurabi propagated his first codified law‚ Nebuchadnezzar grew his Hanging Gardens‚ the Tower of Babel fell‚ and its future Whore will reign anew in anticipation of the Second Coming. These twin strands of memory have endured and propagated the meaning of Babylon as a locus more than a city. The prime memory is a Judeo-Christian one where Babylon is a negative space: a place of

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    False Memories

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    False Memories: False memories are memories of events or situations that did not‚ in fact‚ occur. These recollections of past events are unintentionally false. Often times‚ it may result from a questioned phrased differently‚ or a story told often enough that the person begins to believe that it actually happened recalling these events in depth. When asked what happened‚ they will be able to give vivid descriptions and details of what they remember occurred; however‚ in reality‚ these events

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    False Memories

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    of False Memories: The Maintaining and Creation of False Memory Syndrome The research of false memory syndrome was a newly emerged field of study in the early 1900s. Recent studies have established the proneness of the brain’s ability to misconstrue information to fit what relates to an individual’s surroundings. Although psychologists have already confirmed the malleability of the human mind‚ the question arises of how and why false memories are created (Laney & Loftus 2013). False memory syndrome

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