Personal Narrative: Semantic Memory

I have lived in only one location my entire life: Edwardsville, Illinois. A peripheral suburb of St. Louis, it stands as the rare oasis of people in a desert of corn, pinned in its own personal bubble. Due to this blend of time and isolation, I developed a natural familiarity with my hometown. But, throughout my childhood, I longed to break free from the confines of the bubble and venture outward. However, this changed last summer, as I walked through Richards Brickyard, our family heirloom, that my great-grandfather, Benjamin Richards, founded over 120 years ago. I felt these childlike sentiments slip away. The bubble that had surrounded me for so long began to vanish, and the picture that it had been obscuring was slowly revealed.

One of the biggest transitions of my life was when I moved off to college. At home I have a very stable and supportive family system. They knew me better than anyone else and they held me accountable. I was not scared to move out and go away to college, I was more curious to see what this chapter of my life would bring. Getting away from the comfort of my family really made me take some time to focus on myself. This may attention assignment only furthered this journey of becoming more self aware.

Throughout our lives, we definitely have gone through a lot of experiences and made memories. Some of the memories are easily forgotten, while some others are remembered distinctively, vividly and can be recollected confidently. This is called the flashbulb memory. Flashbulb memory is like a very clear picture of a particularly impactful event which had caused one to be affected emotionally. For example, I remember this performance that my school choir was performing. It was during Christmas season and we decided to spray bubble foam to portray fake snow. However, the plan backfired when the wind blew at our direction and all the foam flew back to us. This was remembered very clearly because I was embarrassed and had experienced something so

|  Episodic memory is recollection of specific events;  Semantic memory is the recollection of general knowledge and facts.

There are many different ways our memory might fail us. Encoding failure occurs when our brain fails to realize all the information around us and can only store what we are most focused on at the time. This causes people to lose information that could have beneficial because they didn’t focus on one single thing. This problem only gets worse with age. Storage decay can also affect the reliability of our memories. Even if the information does get encoded into memory, there is still a chance it could be forgotten over time. There is a forgetting curve that shows how quickly people can forget events. Another way our memories may be clouded could be by the misinformation effect. The misinformation effect can change the way people remember things. If people hear someone tell a story about an event that happened, they could take that information and believe it’s their own information they experienced first hand. These memory failures cause for controversy over whether or not eyewitness testimony should be used in court. These issues are enough to cause reasonable doubt when trying to convict a person off of an eyewitness account. I do believe their are ways for law enforcement agencies to avoid these issues to strengthen the reliability of their eyewitnesses’

When I was extended seven feet above the ground, I knew we had succeeded. My two bases were in front of me and my backspot was behind me. I heard the familiar counts of my backspot “one, two, three, four”, I bounced and pushed myself up into my bases waiting hands, “five, six, seven, eight”, I straightened as my bases lifted me up to chest level. I locked my knees and stayed tight. I put on a smile and looked ahead. I felt my backspot release her hold on my ankles. I heard her voice once again, “extension, one, two, three, four”, I brought my hands down to my sides and focused on staying tight as I slowly rose, “five, six, seven, eight. I was all the way up. Then a few moments later I heard the counts as they brought me to chest level then back down to the ground. We had done it, we had hit the stunt and did an extension.

Memory is a cognitive function of the brain that is often taken for granted. Memory may have many purposes, but most importantly it is essentially a record of an entire life span. From this perspective memory is the most important aspect of consciousness. Unfortunately, through formal experimentation it has been shown that memory is fairly inaccurate, inconsistent, and often influenced by our own experiences as well as the bias of others. Memory is not only affected during an observed event, but there are instances where memory can be influenced after an event as well. There are also instances where memory can be affected retroactively due to personal experiences and biases. Incorrectly recalling the memories of one’s life is usually not

Five months later David get a call from the hospital to tell him his results an he came back positive he drop the phone an cried he was in rage he put a hole in the wall at his house broke his television. He pray to god an ask him questions why me I haven't done nothing wrong but be good to her an make her life easy in this world. Then the test result for his child it was positive that it was his baby he was happy about that couldn't wait to see his health child of his Kelly calls him an ask forgiveness he tells her right now I can't talk to you disgust me at this time. But he told her the results for their child was his he ask why you put me through all of this only thing I wanted to do is to love you be

Of course the norm for me is that of any citizen living in zone three.

After our class discussion and listening to both sides, my opinion has just been confirmed. People tried talking about how we don’t know exactly the true story because we never heard it threw her voice, but through evidence with the way she acted when she pulled him closer in on page 234 and how the doctor said “She struggles with finding the right words sometimes, and that will likely persist. Her short-term memory is erratic at best. Her emotional affect is flat, which may or may not change” on page 105. Nothing about long-term memory and since Maribel was the popular girl before she was injured and all the girls wanted her! So thinking about when I had the sex talk with my parents and realizing how beautiful and wanted she was that her parents

Declarative memory is further divided into semantic memory and episodic memory. Semantic memory is an acquired meaning of structured record of facts, meanings, concepts and knowledge about the external world whereas episodic memory is memories of experiences and specific events in time that are often autobiographical and have emotions associated with them.

Throughout the conversation, Susan did not inform me that the home was still in First Look and not open to investors at this time. Susan did not highlight any features of the home, nor did she talk about the neighborhood or the surrounding area. When asked, Susan paused to reference the property file and stated, "In looking at the pictures it appears that it needs interior paint, carpet, appliances, and a few windows, which the previous seller must have taken." She stated, "I don't know why they have to remove things from the homes." I asked, "Do you have offers?" She paused to check the property file and answered, "No offers." I asked, "Is the property behind the home farmland?" She paused to reference the property file and replied, "It appears

There are two prominent distortions of the episodic memory system: forgetting and the false memory effect. False memory is the propensity to report an event as part of an episodic experience that was not actually present (Holliday, Brainerd, & Reyna, 2011). Several theories give an explanation for this effect, but the most prominent one is the fuzzy trace theory,

I can remember serval instances were my children will tell me something that they think happened, and I quickly realize that what they are saying isn’t true. At the same time, my son has an extreme talent for remembering things that happened when he was very little, and he will adamantly tell me that these particular memories did occur, when I vaguely remember it. When one of my children would bring up an event in the past, I noticed it is usually tied to something that is emotional and meaningful to them. My son often tells me about the day he fell down and scraped his leg on the cement, resulting in his first ever scar. Although this incident was a major event for him, I can barely recall that particular

I really wouldn't want to share a brain with anyone. I think it would be extremely frustrating to not ever be alone physically, but also you would never even be alone in your thoughts.