What Role Does Procedural Memory Play In My Life

This identity is constantly being personally refined and reshaped. By having the understanding of where they come from, trying new things and being told that they aren’t good enough, and admittedly sometimes making the wrong choices, people must create their identity from scratch. All of the pieces of literature mentioned each show a different way identity can be made by someone. This proves that it is impossible to be born with life already planned out and that there is a journey to finding a true identity. And with the words of Thomas Merton, “identity is much more than the name or features one is born with… Identity means having ideas and values one lives by.”

One of the theorists to investigate the development of identity would be Erik Erikson. According to Erikson (1968), throughout an individual’s life-span, they experience conflicts. These conflicts arise at certain points in life and need to be successfully resolved for the progression in to the next of Erikson’s eight stages (Sigelman & Rider, 2015). The specific stage relevant to the development of identity formation in adolescence would be the ‘identity versus role confusion’ stage. Identity development involves exploring options and making commitments to obtain a relatively stable self-perception (DeHaan & MacDermid, 1996). In contrast, role confusion occurs when individuals are not able to commit specific life choices (DeHaan & MacDermid,

Do you remember how you learned how to ride a bike, read a book, or read a book? These and many more activities you are allowed to do are all cause of procedural memory. Procedural memory are the motor skills that you have developed from repeated times. These things, such as walking, talking, eating, start when you are born. You do these motor skills and actions so much that they become more of a habit and you do not notice that you are actually do them. People do not stop and say to their selves “Remember to breath, in, then out” or “to walk, you put your right foot out first, then your left”. That would make life a little more difficult than it already is. Humans and animals can learn with feedback. For example, when we start driving, we will learn the amount of pressure we have to put on the peddle for the car not to go to fast or too slow. “Perceptual learning training with feedback is not formally different from that experienced by a rat required to choose between a triangle and circle, say, when one of these is followed by a given outcome (e.g., access to food) and one is not. Contemporary associative theories of animal discrimination learning (e.g., that proposed by Rescorla & Wagner, 1972) provide an explanation of such learning” (Mitchell & Hall, 2014). Another habit we have as humans are is superstitious learning. Superstitious learning is “actions performed even when there is no causal relationship between the action and its consequences” (Eichenbaum, 2008). For

In highschool I was known as “Big Brian” cause I was at my ‘prime’ in physical appearance back in highschool. Or I was known as the “Smart Asian” which I did not understand because even though I appeared to be smart I was not really that smart. I all seriousness I think I fall into the Identity vs Role Confusion conflict. Throughout high school I was debating on what to do for my future when graduation rolled around. I debated attending college, enlisting into the Marine Corps, or just working. I has little commitment to all my options which made choosing a path even more challenging. I was thinking about the pros and cons of each option on how it will affect my socioeconomic status in general like where I will be residing, my income, etc. Each option has its ways of convincing me not to go that route. Like college, I thought that “what if my major will not guarantee me a job and now I’m stuck with debt”. Or the Marines, I thought that “what if I was not stationed where I wanted”. Or working after highschool might not give me enough money to provide for myself, like paying rent or a mortgage”. Overthinking those factors made me very confused on what to do for myself hence the Identity vs Role Confusion. I had so much pressure on myself compared to my peers who were already set for their own futures. Role confusion really got to me because I felt that If i chose the wrong path I could be unhappy or look like a

Do you remember the time you had learned to ride a bike? Do you understand how you can still ride a bike every day? The answer is called Procedural Memory. Procedural memory is a step-like process of how to do the important work that you decide every day. It is connected with long term memory and is the most basic form of memory. Procedural memory is usually part of an implicit memory. Procedural memory refers to the sensory motor skills by repeating the actions over and over. The procedural memory stores bags of information in our heads on how to perform a specific procedure and makes actions more automatic. In addition, these memory systems can function independently, so you cannot lose those memories. Many examples are playing an

They may be little things but in the end they can end up becoming something big. Conflicts tend to happen throughout a person’s life which can also add onto the stress that they feel. Conflict is something that in the end a person has to decide, disagree, agree, or ignore something that they have been arguing about with another person. The book says “ Reasearch has also shown that both children and adults expect to experience more stress when faced with unexpected negative life events, such as the sudden death loved one, than when dealing with the death of a family member, than dealing with stress generated by ore controalable stressers. Another daily stresser would be inside the workplace which for a person with a job this is an everyday thing sometimes. Stress from work can come from working to much and not giving yourself a break even on your off days. Who a person is as an employee can stress someone out a lot simply because some people think that they should be higher up then what they actually are. Even though we are a wealthy country, with decreasing crime rate we are still going to stress. Crime is something that can go back up in a heart

This class has not only enabled me to become a better student, but also a more productive adult in various ways. Initially, I came into your class ecstatic because I knew the journey I would embark would be an exciting one; however, I encountered challenges throughout the course although learning new psychological methods is enthusing to me. I learned about the origin of psychology and the evolution of modern psychology. In further detail, I will discuss how the learning goals of this course have influenced my career and personal life.

Thus, there is a wide range of areas one can study in psychology. Additionally, psychology is an important aspect of life that must be studied. When I consider how intertwined psychology is in human existence, I reflect on Sigmund Freud who said, “We are what we are because we have been what we have been, and what is needed for solving the problems of human life and motives is not moral estimates but more knowledge.” For this reason, I continued my journey by attending the University of Phoenix. It was here that I received my Associate of Arts in Psychology and my Bachelor of Science in Psychology. Regrettably, even through all this studying and receiving several degrees I did not narrow down a specific area I wanted to

Why can identity dictate if you are going to achieve with what you are doing or in your life in general?   John C. Turner states “The sum total of the social identifications used by a person to define him- or herself will be described as his or her social identity. Social categorizations define a person by systematically including them within some, and excluding them from other related categories”  In his book “Social Identity and Intergroup Relations”. Depending on which social identity and category you are in could decide what you will achieve with your life. In a few situations you may not be able to decide your identity, still you should embrace who you are and make the best of what you have the influence over.

The quest for self-identity is very significant in this time of my life, which is the reason I have chosen this topic for my project. I am a definite opportunist and I seize every occasion if the possibility of learning something new arises. Although it is very exciting to experience moratorium, it is also at times stressful and daunting having to continuously explore different roles and opportunities. Along with my peers, I am attempting to resolve many existential dilemmas such as “What career path should I follow?” or “What roles apply to me?” These questions give rise to the feeling of identity uncertainty and role confusion.

Most people have heard of memory. But do most people know the definition of memory? It's the mental capacity or faculty of retaining and reviving facts, events, impressions, etc., or of recalling or recognizing previous experiences. There's a lot of other things about memory that are worth knowing. For instance, have you ever heard of muscle memory? It's how your body remembers to do things. That means if you learn to ride a bike, you'll never forget how, unless you go through great mental trauma or brain damage.

All throughout our lives, we wrestle with the question of who am I and what do I want in life? However, it is usually during the adolescent years that this issue really comes to a head and we begin a more earnest search into finding ourselves and deciding the direction we want to take with our lives. One of the theorists who studied this idea of identity formation was James Marcia. Marcia proposed that there were four different stages or statuses in the development of identity which he labeled Identity Diffusion, Identity Foreclosure, Identity Moratorium, and Identity Achievement. In this essay, we will briefly summarize his four different stages and then apply his theory to my own identity development during the adolescent years.

Within the package of individuality comes with a long journey of discovery. Especially, when entering high school we are faced with the ultimate task of finding ourselves. We are told by many, that this journey that we are forced to part-take in, is not gonna be an easy one. The process may take the entire four year term, or less, maybe even more. Once you find the identity that your destiny desires, you feel a sense of having your own spot in this very different world. All you have to do is follow these simple steps of finding your identity, such as: making mistakes, falling, learning when to get back up, and using those lessons to shape you into the individual that you were meant to be.

Identity is what evolves us, it is what makes us think the way we do, and act the way we act, in essence, a person’s identity is their everything. Identity separates us from everyone else, and while one may be very similar to another, there is no one who is exactly like you; someone who has experienced exactly what you have, feels the way you do about subjects, and reacts the same to the events and experiences you have had. This became prevalent to me as I read through many books, that everyone goes through the process of finding who they are. A prevalent theme throughout literature is the idea that over time one develops their identity through life over time, in contrast to being born with one identity and having the same

Psychology is the scientific study of behavior and mental processes (Rathus, 2010, p.5). In my Psychology class I learned about multiple brain experiments and I also learned a lot of things about myself that I never thought of or crossed my mind. Things like being a procrastinator and letting things stress you out doesn’t do any good, they can only harm you. Even though there is positive stress in this world, I believe negative stress outweighs the good stress in the world. The 3 biggest areas that struck my attention the most were behavior, peers and my mind. All 3 of these topics that I have chose to write about relate back to me in one way or another. In each of the paragraphs below they will explain the parts of the brain being used and what actually goes on.