Andres Lima
Psychology 100
Project #1
05-02-2016
Elizabeth F. Loftus She was born Elizabeth Fishman in Bel Air, California, where she grew up alongside her parents and siblings. Her dad was in the U.S. Army while her mother was a librarian (Zagorski), whom tragically died when Loftus was only 14 years of age. It is thought that her mother could have committed suicide due to depression and it is implied that there was little communication with her father at the time if not for mathematics. She married another psychologist by the name of Geoffrey Loftus in 1968, only to divorce him in 1991 (Neimark). Ms. Loftus was one of the few women to stand out as a mathematical psychologist, despite what others may have thought.
Her love for psychology
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Loftus also studies false memories. False memories are referred to as memories that never happened or never existed. One of her well known studies enabled family members of a person to tell them vivid details of when the subject was lost in a shopping mall. She found that 25% of her subjects believed they were actually lost in a shopping mall at a young age because they believed the false stories of their family members, triggering a false memory. For other researchers, this has been referred to as the “lost in the mall” method. Along with her research of false memories, she has done research on rich false memories. These are memories in which participants’ experiences are expressed with complete confidence, numerous detail, and sometimes emotions, about an unreal actions. To illustrate, there was a study in which fake ads of Disneyland with Bugs Bunny were shown. Participants from this study were asked if they remembered having seen Bugs Bunny while on their visit to Disneyland. Some of the participants were convinced to have experienced some sort of action with the bunny, whether it was physical or verbal (qtd. in Award for… pg. 869). Most of us would probably recognize right away what was going on, but those who did not must have been in the moment. It is safe to say that the carrot eating character is at home in a hole
Martha Euphemia Lofton Haynes was the first African American women to earn a PH.D in mathematics. She was the first and only child of William S. Lofton, a dentist and financier, and Lavinia Day Lofton. Euphemia Lofton Haynes was born Martha Euphemia Lofton on September 11, 1890 in Washington D.C. In 1917 she married her childhood sweetheart Dr.Harold Appo Haynes. They knew each other very well, as they grew up in the same neighborhood when they were teenagers. They both attended, and graduated from M St. High school. Her husband graduated from M St high school in 1906, a year earlier than she did. During their marriage they were highly focused on their careers, and didn’t have any children.
This book was published in 1981 with an immense elaboration of media hype. This is a story of a young Mexican American who felt disgusted of being pointed out as a minority and was unhappy with affirmative action programs although he had gained advantages from them. He acknowledged the gap that was created between him and his parents as the penalty immigrants ought to pay to develop and grow into American culture. And he confessed that he got bewildered to see other Hispanic teachers and students determined to preserve their ethnicity and traditions by asking for such issues to be dealt with as departments of Chicano studies and minority literature classes. A lot of critics criticized him as a defector of his heritage, but there are a few who believed him to be a sober vote in opposition to the political intemperance of the 1960s and 1970s.
By the time Amalie Emmy Noether’s life ended, she had become one of the greatest mathematicians of her time. She was born on March 23rd 1882, in Erlangen, Germany and died on April 14, 1935, at the age of 53, in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. She was the oldest out of the four kids that her mother, Ida Kaufmann, had. Amalie, known as Emmy, to most everybody she knew, was the only female child out of the bunch. Her dad Max Noether was also a famous mathematician. She had an unproblematic time in her early years of school, being smarter than the majority of the kids at an adolescent age gave her an advantage. Emmy never married, even though her family significantly encouraged it.
Who is Elizabeth Loftus? Some might say a dreamer; others might say the greatest psychological theorist ever, while some might say a great person. According to the information complied by Colleen Born, Elizabeth Loftus was born on October 16, 1944 in the state of California. She grew up with her family here and got her high school diploma. With a love of math growing up she wanted to study it further as a life career, she also wanted to teach but became very interested in the human mind, questioning basic things and focusing on memories especially long term.
When Kathy tells a patient about Hailsham she says, “There have been times over the years when I’ve tried to leave Hailsham behind […] But then there came a point where I just stopped resisting” (Ishiguro 5). And, just like Kathy, they want to live in her stories because they don’t want to be reminded of where they came from and “instead [they] wanted to hear about Hailsham” (5). She often uses words like ‘baffling’ or ‘wasn’t clear’ which indicates that her memory is still foggy. However, Kathy continues to narrate her story in order for her to come to an understanding about her life as memory is her only source of foundation.
Repressed memories is a topic that has been an ongoing dispute among some, however ac...
Definition of memory and it's functions is difficult to illustrate by a single sentence. Consequently we use several metaphors to describe memory implicitly. Our beliefs, perceptions and imagination influence memory. The fact gave rise to memory being described as a reconstructive process, explaining that memory is not an exact record of a particular experience. Instead we bring various components together and fill in the blanks with our predisposed schemas while recalling. The metaphor building "an entire dinosaur skeleton from fossils" is the indirect way to describe memory as cognitive reconstruction. Remembering includes using schemas which are the mental representations of a concept, person or an event.They rejuvenate an incomplete memory such that it is perceived to be an undiminished one. Of course there are errors experienced when recalling which supports the idea of imperfect memory. These can be errors of commission, adding details which were not a part of the experience and errors of omission, which is excluding some aspects of the experience. In this paper I will support the selected metaphor and will provide evidence approving it.
Memory is an important and active system that receives information. Memory is made up of three different stages sensory memory, short term memory, and long term memory. According to the power point presentation, sensory memory refers to short storage of memory that allows an individual to process information as it occurs. Short term memory refers to memory that is only available for a limited time. It is information that is held for seconds or sometimes even minutes. Long term memory refers to memory that is stored for a long period of time and it has an unlimited capacity with the ability to hold as much information as possible. Retrieval is key and it allows individuals to have memories. Episodic memory refers to memory for events that we
Lena Mary Calhoun Horne was born June 30, 1917, in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. Both sides of her family claimed a mixture of African-Americans, Native Americans, and Caucasians, and both were part of what black leader W.E.B. DuBois called "the talented tenth," the upper stratum of the American black population made up of middle-class, well-educated African-Americans. Her parents, however, might both be described as mavericks from that tradition. Her father, Edwin Fletcher Horne Jr., worked for the New York State Department of Labor, but one of her biographers describes him more accurately as "a 'numbers' banker": his real profession was gambling.
False memory syndrome (FMS), also known as pseudomemories or illusionary memories, is defined as memories of traumatic experiences which are false, but the person determinedly believes to be true. These memories of traumatic experiences usually are associated with childhood sexual abuse (CSA) and even in rare cases satanic ritual abuse (SRA). False memory syndrome cases involving childhood sexual abuse are most commonly related to women and children. Also related with false memory syndrome is recovered memories, which is defined as the remembrance of childhood sexual abuse of which a person had no previous awareness of before. These recovered memories often take control over a person’s personality and change their behaviors and lifestyle. It is often difficult for people with false memory syndrome to see the possibility that their recovered memories may be incorrect. False memory
Have you ever been an eyewitness at the scene of a crime? If you were, do you think that you would be able to accurately describe, in precise detail, everything that happened and remember distinct features of the suspect? Many people believe that yes they would be able to remember anything from the events that would happen and the different features of the suspect. Some people, in fact, are so sure of themselves after witnessing an event such as this that they are able to testify that what they think they saw was indeed what they saw. However, using an eyewitness as a source of evidence can be risky and is rarely 100% accurate. This can be proven by the theory of the possibility of false memory formation and the question of whether or not a memory can lie.
In this novel, the theme of insiders and outsiders is one of the major themes that were stressed upon by the author. In my perspective, when I was reading this story, I strongly think that Caroline, Al, and David are the insiders and that everyone else, such as Norah, Paul, and Bree are the outsiders in The Memory Keeper’s Daughter. This is because, in the beginning of the story, when Norah gave birth to Paul and Phoebe, only Caroline and David knew where Phoebe was sent off to, as David was the one who gave away his daughter and that Caroline decides to take care of her as the special needs centre had horrible living conditions. As a result, I would consider them as “insiders” as they are the only ones who witness the entirety of the situation.
The essence of memory is subjective (Lavenne, et al. 2005: 2). In Never Let Me Go memories are formed in the mind of ‘Kathy H’ which emanate her subjective views. These relate to her own emotions and prejudices as an outsider, a clone, experienced through the innocence of childhood, and the deception of adulthood from the institutions of ‘Hailsham’ and ‘the cottages.’ Which allude to Kazuo Ishiguro’s ow...
In the field of cognitive neuroscience a memory study usually involves a combination of behavioral tasks and a machine that permits t...
Memory of Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway. Clarissa Dalloway and Peter Walsh are defined by their memories. Virginia Woolf creates their characters through the memories they share, and indeed fabricates their very identities from these mutual experiences. Mrs. Dalloway creates a unique tapestry of time and memory, interweaving past and present, memory and dreams. The past is the key to the future, and indeed for these two characters the past creates the future, shaping them into the people they are on the June day described by Woolf.