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In the last half century several theories have emerged with regard to the best model for human memory. In each of these models there was a specific way to help people recall words and

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The current study was created to retest reproducibility of Slamecka and Graf results about participants remembering words better when they generated the words than when they read the words in a sample of undergraduate students at Texas A&M University (Slamecka and Graf, 1978). Nineteen undergraduate students at Texas A&M University participated in an experiment where one group was given a set of words and were told to memorize the words. The other group was given one word and the first letter of the second word and was told to generate the second word. It was hypothesized that the group with the participants who generated the second word would remember those sets of words better than the other group. Results showed that the group who generated the second word significantly memorized the words better, the p value being < .05. More in depth explanations involving more variables are discussed such as the five rules, or the within subjects, and their effect on the generation effect as well as future directions.

Further supportive evidence comes from priming studies; priming refers to the improved capacity for detecting or processing a novel or familiar stimuli based on recent experience (Tulving & Schater, 1990). In a famous study by Heist et al. (1991) amnesic patients and control subjects studied words and non-words. They were then given a perceptual identification test with briefly presented previously studied and unstudied items. Perceptual priming was measured as the increase in the probability of identifying the former versus the letter items. Amnesic patients exhibited entirely normal priming for both old words and non-words. On the other hand, they showed significant impairment in recognizing items that had appeared on the administered test. Priming of non-words did not appear to be based on the activation of words that were phonologically or orthographically similar to the non-words. The non-word results suggest that priming can involve the acquisition of new information, rather than simply the activation of pre-existing representations. Researchers concluded that intact perceptual priming in amnesic patients reflects specific changes

We hypothesized that the resulting effects that participants would experience in the contrived situation would be limited to stereopsis, reduced field of vision, and impaired hand-eye coordination in the performance of activities of daily living. These impairments would make activities of daily living significantly more difficult for someone who has acutely lost vision in one of their eyes.

The second experiment is focused on semantic priming in accuracy paradigm. The prediction it was designed to address is whether ambiguous novel compounds facilitate recall accuracy to monomorphemic associates of both parsing choices. The procedure was altered by adapting the morpheme recall task and by having a pre or post primes compound

In my data for the false memory task, I found I was able to accurately recognize 91.7% of the words shown in the recognition task that were from the original lists. I also falsely remembered 16.7% of words that were not originally shown, but were related. Fortunately, I did not falsely remember any words (0%) that were not originally shown or related to the words in the original list.

This study is important for our understanding of the relationship between social inhibition of return (SIOR) and recognition memory. SIOR is defined as the impact of a person’s action on the overseer, which can result in slower responses to the same repeated location. This research hypothesizes that SIOR has an effect on recognition memory. An experiment was set to examine this inhibition of action response to recognition memory and participants were influenced by SIOR and biased in recognition memory test (RMT). This experiment has been conducted in the standard SIOR paradigm and recognition memory test (RMT) to determine whether SIOR inhibits retrieval of memory. Twenty-six participants were recruited in this experiment. A pair of participants

Using paired wordlists of nouns, Bower and Gordon demonstrated this in their 1970 experiment. In their study, they had undergraduate students learn paired wordlists by one of four methods – rehearsal of the two words; reading a sentence in which one of the words acted upon the other (i.e. “The boy hit the ball.”); creating a sentence which linked the two words (i.e. “Nancy threw her bag on the table.”) or creating a mental image of the two words together (i.e. imagining a basket of flowers) (Bower & Gordon, 1970). Results found that students who employed imagery did better on recalling the word pairs in comparison to other methods and those who utilized rehearsal had the lowest recall rate out of the four groups (Bower & Gordon, 1970).

Race and ethnic background also is not important to results; however, English speaking is preferred, as instructions will be given in English. Sample size will be 100 participants made of up 50 female and 50 male subjects. Recruitment will occur via email messages sent to college campuses with graduate programs throughout the United States. As there is an age cut-off, the invitation to participate in the study will be sent only to junior year students and beyond to ensure the age requirement is met. Graduate programs are a must to guarantee enough students at the schools are old enough to participate. Lastly, additional criteria will be required of the participants. Normal, non-corrected 20/20 vision is required. Also, participants cannot possess any other type of sensational deficit (e.g. no hearing, taste, touch, or smell impairments). As important as the participants are, I cannot carry out the experiment without the necessary materials.

In completing this task, I realized the importance of assessment and instruction. Because I was blindfolded, I was mimicking what it would have been like had I been completely blind. However, if I had some light perception then I would have completed the task a little more differently. If I had limited visual acuity or visual field, then the manner by which I would need to adapt the task would also differ. Therefore, I believe that a functional vision assessment performed by a teacher of the visually impaired would be greatly beneficial. After the assessment, the teacher could provide some recommendations in terms of what adaptations the student would need. Whether the student will benefit from high contrast objects or magnification aids will

Visual acuity is a measure of an observer’s ability to see fine spatial detail (Cavonius &amp; Schumacher, 1966). There are a number of factors that affect visual acuity, such as illumination and contrast, and various ways to measure it (Kalloniatis &amp; Luu, 2005). One way to measure visual acuity is through target detection which requires the perception of the orientation of a stimulus such as a Landolt C or a Snellen E (Kalloniatis &amp; Luu, 2005). The participant in the current experiment was referred to have their acuity tested. Target detection of a stimulus was used to measure the participant’s visual acuity as a function of retinal eccentricity of the target.

The MST offers two measures: a lure discrimination index (LDI) and a recognition recollection score. The LDI tries to record hippocampal function by judging how well participants can cast-off very similar lure items without viewing these items as old; demonstrating the preservation of distinctive, detailed memories and a lack of interference. The LDI is calculated as the probability of (correctly) calling a lure object similar minus the probability of (incorrectly) calling a foil object similar. The second measure of the MST is a regular recognition recollection measure, calculated as the probability of (correctly) calling repeated objects old minus (incorrectly) calling foil objects old. As noted, the LDI measure relies heavily on the hippocampus

Age might likewise portray a diminished ability to access information stored in short term memory, and therefore increase the short term memory deterioration. Errors were limited by testing the subjects in quiet rooms, giving all six subjects the same tests and giving the subjects a clear procedure on what their objective was, so that uniform data could be obtained. Some possible sources of error may have been that the subjects could have still glanced at the visuals while they were being taking away, and another error that could have occurred was during the verbal test. The words may not have been read at the exact pace and clarity with each subject. This error could have had a significant effect on the results because everybody has different ways of memorizing words. It is suggested that the following improvements could be made to the experiment such as testing a variety of age groups, and testing more subjects from each group. These improvements could make an impact on the final results, as well as providing reliable information to

This article goes into depth about encoding and retriaval experiments testing recognition without awareness, and implicit and explicit memory through images. The scientists conducting the experiment were looking for a correlation between images and recognition without awareness. The scientists leading the experiment divided 45 undergradute students into two groups; they had 24 students in the full attention encoding group and 21 students in the divided attention encoding group. They then tested these students' recognition without awareness with