Event Memory Retention

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74. Raymond remembers, “When I was a sophomore, I took the hardest physics test of my life, and I was happy with my C.” This memory represents a(n)

Match the following characteristics to their types of memory. The answers can be used more than once.

The retrieval of a memory can initiate processes in our brain that actively consolidate and strengthen the memory trace, a process known as memory reconsolidation. Memories retrieved are thought to increase their stability once they undergo the process of consolidation. Retrieval of a memory trace may cause another liable phase to require more processing to keep the memory stable after retrieval; the brain systemically acquires cellular mechanisms to initiate a new round of protein synthesis that saves the trace from degradation. (Rudy CITE) There has been recent issues concerning the relationship between post-traumatic stress disorder and reconsolidation of fear memories brought about by individuals who experience the disorder.

fMRI studies usually include a episodic memory (EM) task, because EM dysfunction is the important phenomena among the cognitive changes within a 3-year time, following a diagnosis in AD. Some of the research has illustrated that EM performance downtrend with healthy aging and is uptrend in MCI and AD. Additionally, semantic memory (SM) task have successfully foretell the cognitive downstream and have an edge over EM tasks. It has been realized that performance decline on SM tasks are less severe than EM declines in normal aging and MCI (Hodges & Patterson, 1995). The article compares these two techniques and explains which technique can help us achieve accurate results. The study involved specifically chosen 78 healthy older adults. Participants

Semantic, episodic, and procedural memory are all vital to humans, and I can’t imagine a life lived without these everyday functions. Damaging the temporal lobe and prefrontal cortex engender a loss of semantic memory. Without semantic memory I would lose my general knowledge. Basic certainties that I’ve obtained since preschool would fly out the window. A person doesn’t realize how much capacity a human brain stores, I still have multiplication tables imbedded into my mind. Imagining a life without conscious data like multiplication, the sounds of letters, and/or even the simplest information like knowing what a tree looks like, is a very scary thought to process. The concept of not being able to recognize the items and scenery around me would be the scariest task that I would lose if my semantic memory disappeared. I couldn’t even fathom a life without such simple knowledge.

Since Nader, Schafe & LaDoux (2000), challenged the previously heralded definition of memory consolidation, an influx of research addressing various theories of; consolidation, reconsolidation and potential clinical implications have surfaced. This essay aims to conglomerate the current understanding of memory reconsolidation, furthermore addressing the resonance upon clinical psychology.

There are many ways that affect the memory retention. Seeing something may cause you to think back to that memory like getting shots. If you got a shot and it really hurt when you got it every time you see a needle then you remember that time when you got that bad stick. Try not to associate a bad memory with a bad experience you had, try to think about the good experiences you had, that will cause you not to associate the bad experience to whatever bad experience you had. There are also things that you can do to help you with your memory like getting enough sleep when you don't get a goodnight's rest you tend to forget some things. It is important to keep your brain active so playing some brain games will allow you to remember some things. Doing puzzles and crossword puzzles will keep your brain active also.

Over the past decade, the recreational marijuana use has been a serious issue because it may cause memory loss, especially if they started during adolescence. Marijuana, known as the extract from a type of plant named cannabis, which found to be in cigarettes, also consumed as an illicit drug. Recreational use means to be something that denoted occasionally taken for entertainment in a socializing place. A study in 2012 indicates a neuropsychological decline of heavy marijuana user from young to midlife. In 2015, the researcher carries out an experiment based on that open study, to show the significant differences in episodic memory(EM) impairments occur among healthy adult, regular past cannabis use disorder(CUD) individuals, chronic schizophrenia

Ask any person in college what is the number one key to attaining a degree. They will all be in agreement that memory is the number one answer to succeeding in a university. Memory is the gateway to our success in everyday life, we would not be able to act in the present or move forward. The first step involved in processing information into our memory is by encoding. In this stage, information process in visual, acoustic, or semantic forms. The second step in memory retention is storing information, this process creates a permanent record of encoded information. The third step is retrieval; we do this process when stored information needs to be recalled. Everyday information is being processed in these three ways. Life of a student requires

According to Parkin (1999) memory is the erudition of fresh information connecting variations in the synaptic connections amongst neurons dedicated for the stowage of material. However, memory is also the ability to recall information and this is a point where the phenomenon of human memory falters. This essay will argue that human memory is not reliably accurate for details of past events over an extended time period and under experimental conditions. This is supported by firstly Zhu et al. (2011), whose results intensely advocated that short-term contact to misinformation can lead to long-term false memory. The results showed a positive correlation between the amount of misinformation and the number of false memories recalled. To add to this, Vitevitch, Chan, & Roodenrys, (2012) examined how network structure influences recall in long and short term memory. The results showed that participants falsely recognized more words with low connection to network structure than high connection to network structure. That is, the higher the words’ connection to neural networks, the less chance the participant would produce false memory. These results showed a negative correlation between the connection to neural networks and the amount of false memories produced i.e. if a participant had low connection they would produce more false memories than if they had high connection.

Figure 6.1 is an explanation of how information enters the brain and then processed through the cycle of the individual's memory. It all starts with getting the sensory information into a form that the brain can use and process, this is called encoding. Encoding is not limited to just turning sensory information into the correct signals for the brain, it is different in each of the three different storage systems of the memory.

Even if people are a rather young, there are still a lot of events that individuals can remember. There are lot of changes that can place in a person’s life. Some changes are tiny and would not affect your life very much. However, other events could be very important and could change a person’s whole life. The important event that changed my life is moving to United States for staying and study here for whole life. I was sixteen years old when I arrived in United States. Then I realized

How one remembers an event depends on the context in which they witnessed it in. That context is not simply composed of factors such as the weather or the emotional state of the spectator; the larger socio-political context also has a part to play. The 2014 Sochi Winter Games are no exception to this theory, but a prime example of it. The Sochi games come, at least in this author’s mind as a dud. Yes, women were for the first time allowed to participate in the ski jump, and other athletes fulfilled their Olympic dream, but the Cold War “magic” was not there. The Western and Russian Media played their share, the United States and Russia are currently opposed in several significant international conflicts, but we did not witness a Miracle on Ice, or any geopolitical sparks in the competition. This is because the media and political elites built up tensions in their populaces, but abstained from promoting through their athletes.

When I first was introduced to the final project, I was a little intimidated because I had not done something like this in a long time and didn’t know what topic to do it on. However, once I actually started to work on it, I began to find an angle that I really liked. I decided to make a sculpture of a head out of Styrofoam and paper mache. I wanted to physically represent how the small, different memories make up a person’s mind and, along with that, how fragile memory can be. I drew inspiration for the project mostly from things we read in class, although some came from our class discussions and personal experiences. For example, Joe Brainard’s I Remember is what led me to the small, individual memories that associate with one another, while Sarah Manguso’s Ongoingness is the inspiration of the part of the sculpture that represents the fragility of memory.