Group processes

Although the social classes changed their speech habits for different specific reasons (lower class to expand their social connections while upper class to avoid sounding too educated and ‘posh’), they both adapted to reduce the gap between the different groups within the country and creating a stronger…

The differences between long-term memory and short-term memory and their specific usage. In psychology, memory is the process in which information in encoded, stored and retrieved. The ability of being able to store information for retrieval later does seem to be a fascinating concept, it is no wonder that there have been varies studies on memories. From rudimentary methods such as Ebbinghaus’s (1886) pioneering experimental study on memory by memorizing thousands of nonsense syllables to…

The Beauty of the Human Brain Everyone somewhere down their lifetime has been able to remember or memorize basic information, whether it is for pure enjoyment or as an obligation. For instance, if they remembered a book they read maybe as a kid or an activity somewhere down their life. All of these are some of the many ways we use our brain, which comes with memorizing or just simply as memories we obtain. The human brain is basically the command system in the body, it tells every muscle how to…

Two cognitive processes that contrast but also compare would be Deep Processing and Shallow processing. Deep processing is basically determined to result in long term memory, as Shallow processing is most likely to end up as short term memory. Deep processing uses semantics to create an understanding and a storage of memory. You will more likely remember something that you deep processed, hence you figured out meaning, purpose, etc. Shallow processing is not as durable as deep processing because…

Humans sometimes experience difficulty differentiating between real memories of events and memories of events that seem real, but never actually occurred. The illusory memory effects observed from work by others in the past as well as this article could possibly be significant to the recovery of memories of childhood sexual abuse. The data in this paper connects the effect’s strength, the remembrance abilities allocated to real events and imaginary events, the extent to which the subjects accept…

There has been different research that proposed to explain how working memory capacity and different processing strategies enhance or interfere with memory performance. Although the literature cover different research, this review will focus in encoding and retrieval process of information, and the importance of working memory capacity. There is an important relation between individual differences in Working Memory Capacity (WMC) and retrieving information from long-term memory (LTM). In this…

According to dictionary.com, memory is the mental capacity of retaining facts, or of recalling or recognizing previous experiences. But memories are more than that. Memories define someone’s likes and dislikes, help recognize friends from enemies (Wilson). Memories are our own identity, all our knowledge and experience comes from them. Everyday of our life we are creating new memories. They are the base for taking decisions in a person’s life but are all those memories trustworthy? When you…

Creative Histories Presentation History is a narrative of human experience, written retrospectively. There is a process of evaluation and reflection that colours, interprets and reshapes events into patterns of memory that can be selective and distinctly individual. Authenticity and verifiable details make history a more reliable ‘story’ of human experience through the additional use of personal memories. Memory is fragile, often short term and highly subjective. The mind’s impact on memory can…

The hippocampus is the most important part of the brain because it is responsible for transferring information from working memory to long-term memory so it can be used again.If this area gets damaged, someone would forget everything that had happened previous the accident, but would be able to create new memories from that point on. There are many other aspects that play a role in us remember and forgetting. Two things that could cause someone to forget are interference and individual…

There are many ways to apply ones knowledge to improve study skills and performance on tests to make better grades. Memory essentially has 3 stages. Sensory memory, short-term memory and long-term memory. The first step is sensory memory. In this stage you receive information from all your senses. is is stored there in sensory form. If we retain this information then we enter the short-term memory phase. In this phase there is a capacity of the amount of the information that we actually…