Psychology

For this experimental task I decided to use my uncle and my cousin.  I decided to use different ages because I thought that it wo uld be interesting to see if the brain that isn't fully developed didn't remember as much as the fully developed brain.  My uncle remembered a total of 13 words altogether from both lists, while my cousin remembered 15 words.  However my uncle remembered the middle last and first words of each list when my cousin could only remember one of the fist words from the first list.  My uncle showed the  “primacy” and “recency” effects.  While I was asking my family members to  remember  these words we sat at the dinner table with no  distractions  while I was reading the words in order to make it easier for them to  remember.  I found it very interesting that my younger cousin got side tracked for a minute but then was still able to continue to write down words as he remembered them.  Neither of m...

The video that stood out to me the most was about the different parts of the brain that store memory.  There are three different chambers that store memories in your brain which are called encoder, short term memory, and long term memory.  The encoder is like a passageway that all the information has to go through before it gets to either short term or long term.  Short term memory is very interesting because it is only able to hold 5 to 9 items at a time.  While watching this video the narrator asked the viewers to remember a series of numbers which was very hard.  After realizing you can't remember all these numbers in a row he chucked all the numbers together into dates, and this made it very easy to remember all the numbers.  Long term memory is like a library in your brain but instead of books it contains networks.  Your long term memory consists of everything in your world and yourself. Dr. Ebbinghaus conducted an experiment with himself that c...

After reading about the affects of learning I was very surprised on how people pick up on things that aren't specifically taught to them.  Such as the example of pointing at an empty water glass and having the waiter automatically know that you are thirsty and are in need a refill.  Another example that I thought was very interesting was the one that had to do with associating people to activity.  When a little girl associated getting picked up in a red car to ice cream, or her uncle with basketball.  Learning is the essence of the nurture side on the nature-nurture debate that surrounds human behavior.  Another example of a study that deals with learning is Pavlov's Accidental Discovery.  This study deals with generalization and discrimination.  For this experiment meat is placed infant if a dog with another object and the amount of salvation is collected.  This is very interesting because when the dimension of the object changed the dog didn't p...