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On December 23, 1972, one of the most memorable games in the history of the National Football League took place at Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The Pittsburgh Steelers were playing the Oakland Raiders in the AFC Championship Game. The score was 7-6 in favor of the Raiders; then something extraordinary happened. Steeler quarterback … Read more
Memory is one of the intriguing topics to study in cognitive psychology; it is something we rely on for our daily activities i.e. we use memory remember/recollect information relevant to our day to day activities. Whereas there are traditional approaches to study memory by conducting researches on the framework of levels of processing model and … Read more
Every one of us have memories in life it’s either a happy or a sad one. Some of the memories we want to forget especially the sad or hurtful happenings. And we want to remain is the happy memories that we treasure the most. It was February 3, 2010, it’s the day when my grandmother … Read more
The multistore model of memory was proposed by Atkinson and Shiffrin (1968) They proposed that memory consisted of three stores: a sensory register, short-term memory and long-term memory. Information enters into the sensory register, and if attended to will become a short-term memory, then, through rehearsal, it will become a long-term memory. This long-term memory … Read more
Maintaining every perception of a situation like bodily sensations, thought, fondness and surrounding ambience is nothing but Mindfulness. Mindfulness involves acceptance of bodily sensations, fondness; means that attention is paid irrespective of judging them or believing them. Mindfulness is an uncomplicated word. It simply suggests that the mind is fully concentrating to what is happening … Read more
IB Psychology: Memory Essay Using at least 3 studies as evidence, which is the most reliable theory of memory: Schema Theory or Flashbulb Memory Theory? Although both theories of memory; schema theory and flashbulb memory theory are both useful and reliable when evaluating cognition, there are both advantages and disadvantages of both. It is these … Read more
Statement of the Problem In order for the students to remember and save all the things they were able to learn in school, it is important that the students should improve their memorization ability. There were multiple ways for this improvement. One of it was probably highlighting a text by the use of highlighter pens. … Read more
Mindfulness and Video Games Video games have been a part of my life since I was young. Some of my fondest memories from my childhood are of my dad and I spending time together as I forced him to play The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time for me for what had to have been … Read more
RAM (random access memory) is the memory that the computer can use ‘randomly’, this is the memory that is kept available for programs to use – the memory available is measured in gigabytes (GB) and speed is measured in megahertz. This means the more RAM a computer has, the faster it will operate and will … Read more
“Memory is the diary we all carry about with us,” Oscar Wilde once said. Now for a second imagine a life without any memories! One wouldn’t be able to remember his/her name, how to look after themselves or to even recognize their own friends and family. It would be impossible to live happily without ones … Read more
Memory is defined as the accuracy and ease with which a person can retain and recall past experiences (Webster`s Dictionary, pg. 611). It is often thought of as a capacity, such as a cup, that could be full or empty. A more common comparison is one to a computer. Some minds, like computers, can have … Read more
