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    Short Term Memory Loss. Ironically most of us don’t even think about memory that often, much less Short Term Memory. Because of that, this psychological disorder often tends to get overlooked for a small problem that no one wants to take serious. Most people would recognize this disorder from the popular movie, Finding Nemo. In which one of the main characters suffers from short term memory loss. In the film it’s taken as a lovable flaw, instead of the serious disorder that it is. But Short Term Memory

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    remembers information”, but how? Memories are stored in direct braincells and brain structures, which allow us to remember our memories. Some memories can depend on one single molecule for their life long remembrance, and replay of episodes. Memories are stored in two ways, short term memory and long-term memory. These three different stages of memory allow us to take in and handle each little thing we learn in just one day. They keep us sane. After the recent

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    Many first-year college students struggle as they transition from various high schools in which they did not have to regularly study are soon finding what was once simplistic to excel in school is no longer the case. Instead, they continue with old study habits in hopes of evolving into better habits along the way. Through this hope of evolving habits, it is negatively impacting their classes with even some “habits” they do not recognize as detrimental. Now, these strategies or habits are being recognized

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    sensations are predicated upon our past experiences. These experiences are stored as memories. According to Richard Morris, our memories involve a series of interconnected nerve cells that develop strong connections through a process called long-term potentiation (Morris, 2003). Memory making involves the interaction of several structures in the brain: the amygdala processes emotions; the limbic cortex coordinates sensory input with emotion; and the thalamus controls sensory information and attention

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    The hippocampus is responsible for long-term memory, and is also involved with the limbic system in the brain, which regulates emotions. Emotions and memory go hand in hand, and when the body is under emotional stress it becomes more alert as a result of the steroid hormones being produced

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    the short-term memory can actually recognize, recollect, and process a small amount of information. This makes “the brain’s Post-it note” in a readily available state for the length of the memory. The readily available state makes the working memory appealing, however, the short-term memory has a limited capacity of a few facts. (Mastin) In terms of importance, the working memory is similar to the sensory memory. The short-term memory is the next step in retaining the memory into long-term memory.

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    important progress made in stage 4 of development but, also a problem in linking up object representation to the child’s prior knowledge of location. Psychologist have revealed many different explanations for this result. Examples of this are in terms of the egocentric representation of space (e.g., Acredolo, 1985; Bremner, 1978; Bremner&Bryant, 1977), the immaturity of the prefrontal cortex (e.g., Diamond, 1990a, 1990b; Diamond&Goldman-Rakic, 1989), and the fragility of object memory (e.g., Munakata

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    The Amygdala’s Contribution to Fear Damasio (2000) claims that “emotions are physiological signals as a reaction to external stimuli, and feelings arise when the brain interprets stimuli” (as cited in Hannibal, 2012, p. 30). The part of the brain that unravels and decodes emotion and interprets the particular stimuli that are threatening to the organism is the amygdala (Dubuc, 2002). To go into more depth, Michael Davis (1992) wrote that the central nucleus of the amygdala has direct projections

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    of learning. Through different online tests that I have recently taken, I will explain how different learning styles such as visual, auditory, and tactile learning can help improve a person’s way of remembering subjects, also defined as memory. Not long ago, I took two different types of learning style tests. The first test that I took was through the website, www.educationplanner.org. According to this website, my results concluded that I was a tactile learner. Referring back to the questionnaire

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    Is having any type of memory important in our daily lives? If so, which do you remember the most of? In Kazou Ishiguro’s novel, The Buried Giant, Ishiguro deals with a couple named Axl and Beatrice, who go into an adventure where they meet other characters such as a young Saxon warrior Edwin. One theme that is constantly brought upon in the novel is the relevance of memory as a whole. Even though the meaning of family is evident between the elderly couple, Beatrice and Axl, Ishiguro generates a society

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