[10/23/12] Chapter 5 LEARNING * BEHAVIOR CHANGES THAT ARE DUE TO OUR EXPERIENCES OR THE ENVIRONENT * Simplest form of learning involves our senses * Simplest form learning = Habituation: Adjusting to stimuli that do not change. Example: You go into a guy’s room and smell something terrible‚ after a while you get used to the environment/smell and don’t even notice it. * Humans learn similarly to animals. Patterns of responding are similar to animals. * Types of Conditioning:
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AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY Outlines: 1. Definition‚ characteristics and function of autobiographical memory 2. Methods of studying autobiographical memory 3. Levels of autobiographical memory 4. Conway’s theory 5. Autobiographical memory as life narrative 6. Autobiographical memory over time (infantile amnesia; reminiscence bump) Definition of Autobiographical Memories • Memories of ourselves and our relationships • Episodic
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Memories are our link to the past. They give us context‚ allow us to grow and learn from mistakes‚ and let us recall past experiences. They give rise to culture and allow society to advance. In contrast‚ memory also stores our pain‚ our embarrassment‚ and our heartache. As humans‚ our standard response to this recollection of pain is to forget it in some capacity. The characters of Khaled Hosseini’s novel And the Mountains Echoed are no different. fleeting‚ the novel places certain characters in
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have discussed in class. The Link Method Info on the first Scientific Research on Memory In the Link method the user associates items on a list to a little story they made up. There are two subdivisions of this technique the pure link method and the story method. Both tell a story but the story method is a little more detailed so I will use that one. In dealing with the first scientific research on memory I want to memorize the two names Hermann Ebbinghaus and Gustaf Fecner. To memorize
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The Persistence of Memory Looking at the picture The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali‚ people can see an abstract aesthetic deep within. The landscapes associated with his childhood have become an inspiration for his paintings. When he grew up‚ Dali still spent his time to painting the Catalonia’s landscape elaborately. Completed in 1931‚ The Persistence of Memory became one of his well-known paintings. This famous artwork is called “Dali ‘s hand painted dream photographs”‚ and it is simultaneously
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Outline and evaluate research into encoding in memory (8) A study by Baddeley was conducted in 1966. He did two experiments looking into the STM and LTM. In these two studies he gave participants four lists of words. These were a list where the words were acoustically similar another where they were acoustically different and one where they were semantically similar and the last where they were semantically different. They were read the lists and then given an interference task for 20 seconds
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exposure to misinformation have an effect on eyewitness memory and testimony? 2. What is your hypothesis or hypotheses? What is the null hypothesis? Hypothesis: If one is exposed to misinformation then it can lead to distortions in human memory for genuinely experienced events‚ as well as details of people‚ things‚ and places and eyewitness’s can be misled leading them to depict false information. Null Hypothesis: There is no affect to human memory‚ genuinely experienced events‚ nor details of people
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Summary of Memory Distortion in Alien Abductee Study A summary of "Memory Distortion in People Reporting Abduction by Aliens" Introduction This is a summary of the article by Clancy et al.‚ 2002. The prevalence of alien abduction stories has been increasing in recent history (Bartholomew& Howard‚ 1998; Newman & Baumeister‚ 1997). Psychologists have more recently interpreted the stories as evidence of memory distortion (Newman & Baumeister‚ 1997). Previously published accounts of abduction
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Gender in Memory Thesis Statement: Gender Affects Memory 1. Introduction 1.1 Background of the Study 1.2 Statement of the Problem 1.3 Significance of the Study 1.4 Definition of Terms 2. Body 2.1 Definition of Memory 2.2 Types of Memory 2.2.1 Sensory Memory 2.2.2 Short Term Memory 2.2.3 Long Term Memory 2.3 Definition of Gender 2.4 Types of Gender 2.4.1 Female 2.4.1.1 Long Term Memory 2.4.1.2 Brain 2.4.1.3 Task 2.4.2 Male 2.4.2.1 Long Term Memory 2.4
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effects of normal aging on memory may result from the subtly changing environment within the brain. With aging‚ the brain seems to lose cells in areas that produce important neurotransmitters‚ upsetting the brain’s delicate balance of these chemical messengers. Other changes occur in the brain’s white matter‚ which is made up of nerve cell fibers‚ the “telephone cables” of brain cells through which communication with other cells takes place. Just how these changes affect memory
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