Concept Map of Memory Summary

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Concept Map of Memory

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Psych 640

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Running head: CONCEPT MAP OF MEMORY

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CONCEPT MAP OF MEMORY

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Concept Map of Memory

 

Mental

Pictures

Exercise

Master New

Skill

Well Rested

Eat Right

Not Effectively Encoding into Long-term Memory

 

Methods to Enhance Memory

Effective Encoding

into

Long-term Memory

 

Memory

Systems

Memory

 

 

There are many techniques one may utilize to enhance their memory. Over time, aging affects one’s memory, however these simple techniques make it possible to retain information longer. Maintaining a healthy diet and exercising regularly plays a crucial role in enhancing your memory. “Fresh vegetables are essential, as are healthy fats and avoiding sugar and grain carbohydrates. Exercise encourages your brain to work at optimum capacity by stimulating nerve cells to multiply, strengthening their interconnections and protecting them from damage” (APA, 2015). Exercising helps cognitive functions such as learning. Getting a good night’s sleep is said to enhance memory and to improve performance of skills. “The process of brain growth, or neuroplasticity, is believed to underlie your brain’s capacity to control behavior, including learning and memory” (Mercola, 2014). Challenging your brain through brain games and mastering new skills will help to enhance memory. If you do not provide your brain with new information, it will begin to deteriorate. Overall, engaging in meaningful activities stimulates our neurological systems. Providing the brain with appropriate stimulus can counteract degeneration of memory over one’s lifetime.

 

 

References

APA. (2015). Enhance your memory. Retrieved from http://www.apa.org/topics/learning/enhance-memory.aspx

Mercola, D. (2014, April). Seven tricks to improve your memory. Retrieved from http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2014/04/24/memory-improvement-tricks.aspx

Intercultural Communications Assignment

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  • How can you use the concepts to explain your intercultural communication experience?
  • What stories from your intercultural interaction demonstrate these concepts?
  • How did you react to cultural differences that you encountered?
  • How has this experience helped you to understand more about yourself in intercultural communication situations?

Submit by Day 7 a 4- to 6-page paper in which you:

  • Describe in detail three or four instances during the study that were particularly memorable or meaningful for you and demonstrated intercultural communication challenges or differences. Include the cultural patterns and communication styles that surfaced.
  • Explain your perceptions and reactions to these instances based on the application of the BASIC and D-I-E tools.
  • Explain how your knowledge and skills developed in this course can apply to effective intercultural communication practice.
  • Explain how intercultural competence gained in this course applies to effective intercultural communication practice in personal and professional situations.

Discussion—The Positive of the Negative

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Assignment 1: Discussion—The Positive of the Negative

Is there a positive side to the feeling of negative emotions? Like physical pain, negative emotions or experiences tell us that something is wrong and needs to be fixed. When we focus on the negative, we have more negative experiences. According to this model, using negative experiences to help promote positive experiences is more effective when considering change.

In a perfect world, no one would have negative experiences. In this assignment, you will consider the role of negative feelings such as anger, sadness, and fear in our lives.

Using the module readings, Argosy University online library resources, and the Internet, research negative emotions and the concept of rumination.

Then, view the following video:

  • Gazit, C., & Robertson, M. (January 2010). Facing our fears. [This Emotional Life] Boston, MA: PBS/NOVA/WGBN.

Video
Watch the video below called “Facing Our Fears,” an episode in the three-part PBS documentary series This Emotional Life. Download the PDF transcript here for the below video.

This video will help you understand the negative emotions (such as anxiety, anger, and fear) that create obstacles to happiness, as well as how we continue to deal with these emotions.

Create a hypothetical situation where someone would feel fear and would ruminate over the event.

Based on your research and analysis of the video, respond to the following:

  • Describe the hypothetical situation and the rumination.
  • Discuss this situation in terms of how it impacts the emotional state and how it may influence future emotional states. Discuss whether the person should recall it or experience it again.
  • Explain a possible reappraisal process that can be used in this situation.
  • Discuss the implications of what makes change difficult from a psychological perspective.
  • Discuss why it is important to reappraise and how self-regulation plays a part in this process.

Write your initial response in 300–500 words. Apply APA standards to citation of sources.

By Week 4, Day 3, post your response to the appropriate Discussion Area. Through Week 4, Day 7, review and comment on at least two peers’ responses.

Do the following when responding to your peers:

  • Read all your peers’ postings.
  • Comment on why resilience and self-regulation are important.
  • Give examples to demonstrate your perspective when writing your response.

Grading Criteria and Rubric

Discussion Grading Criteria

    Arrow Use the  Respond link to post responses and materials that pertain to this assignment. Use the  Respond link beneath any existing postings to respond to them.

 

Assignment 1: Discussion—The Positive of the Negative

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Describe the duration and capacity of memory at each of the three memory stages

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1.  Describe the duration and capacity of memory at each of the three memory stages .  Give specific examples of memory, or forgetting at each stage.

 

2.  Give examples of memory failures due to problems with encoding, storage, and retrieval .  How would you prevent these types of memory failures when studying?  How do you overcome encoding failure, retrieval interference and storage decay?

 

3. Describe the process of priming.  Give examples of mood congruence and context effects and describe some common sources of retrieval cues .

 

4. Give examples of the two different types of long term memory and the differences in their processing

 

5. Describe the role of imagination, source amnesia, and the misinformation effect in the reconstruction of memories.  Give specific examples of each phenomenon.

 

6. Psychological research shows that people often ‘remember’ things that never happened.  Given this information, describe practices or policies for police interrogations, eyewitness testimony or psychotherapy that would prevent the creation of false memories.

 

 

*7. After college, students remember little of the information that they learn in college.  Is college a waste of time, or not?  What is the value of college aside from the retention of information?  Describe the student for whom college is a waste of time, as well as the student for whom it is not a waste of time.  Consider the information in the text related to study techniques in the Improving Memory section 7-19, and the types of long term memory .  What study technique are a waste of time, and which are productive?  Explain why in