#M4ExpTask

False Memory

I was home for spring break and so I asked my brother, Micah, to help me with my task. I brought him to the table in our dining room. He didn't want to be recorded so I respected his request and didn't record him. 

I printed out a paper that had the words. I told him I was going to show them for 5 seconds and you need to tell me all the words. So I showed him the words. Counted to 5. and I told him to write down the words. 

He almost all of them. I asked him the words and he said he got pain and sharp and a few others. So I started to tell him why he remembered those words so well. Pain is because it is the last word. Thread because it is first. I started to ask him if other words was on the like sting or needle. He thought about it for a second and was like yes I am pretty sure it's there in the list. And I was like are you sure? He thought about it again and was like yes I am sure. I showed him the list and he was like what? it's not there. 

This is an example making a False Memory. He was amazed that he made something up. I explained to him that all of these words that I gave him were all about one topic and that is probably why you thought of that word that is not there. This is understandable because of how our minds work. 

We started on the second list of words and I gave him a little bit more time for this round. Time was up so I asked him to write the words that he remembered. He wrote down a few and then he stopped. So I asked him a few questions again. He got a lot of them correct. I then asked him if sleep or doctor was on the list. He said yes to sleep but no to doctor. I showed him the list and once again he was shocked that it happened again. He learned that our minds have an imagination that can make things up. 

Thank you Micah for helping me. 

Memory Related Disorders and Forgetting

Memory Related Disorders and Forgetting

Have you ever wondered why you forget certain things? 

Some times they are caused by a memory disorder. This usually happens when something happens to the brain and damages a part of the brain that involves the storage and recollection of our memories. This can be caused by a lot of events. Probably the more common one is concussions. Especially when the victim is an athlete. It is sad to say that athletes are more prone to concussions than anyone else. However, concussions can happen to anyone and not just athletes. When you have a concussion it can leave you disoriented and maybe even have some brain damage. This is an immediate kind of brain trauma. 

Other disorders like Alzheimer's or Huntington's disease. These take time to develop. Alzheimer's disease usually affects the older side of people. This disease will slowly start making you forget things. This is really sad to see happen because they forget how to do simple things and they could start to forget their kids and their family members. 

Huntington's disease is a disease that can be inherited by your parents. It is said that if your parents have it there is a 50% chance that you are going to get it too. This disease affects mostly your muscle coordination. Since it affects this it also affects your cognitive processes. This disease has a slow decline which will affect the short term memory and then slowly affect the motor function. 

Amnesia is where you have "lost" the memories. You tend to have a space in your mind of where you can not remember anything. We do not know exactly why this happens. However, most causes of amnesia is damage to the hippocampus. It can affect the ability to learn and memorize new things along with totally forgetting everything. 

Sources:

http://www.human-memory.net/disorders.html 

Learning

Learning

Baby Years
Ever since we have been born, we have been growing. We start out as little babies and we immediately start learning. While we are even still in the hospital, we are learning. As babies, we start depending on our parents and finding out that certain actions cause certain results. For example, babies cry because they usually want something like milk or sleep. As we grow, we are taught to ask for things instead of whine and cry. This may take many years to learn but eventually we will learn to ask. As that comes around, we learn to crawl and walk. This is a big step especially for the new babies.

Toddler Years
While these first few years are difficult, the next few years are a even bigger steps. This is about the time that we start going to school. As we all know, there is a lot more learning to do. During these years of school, we learn several different subjects like math, English, history, and many more. We continue to learn for many years. Whether it is everyday things like going to the restroom or things like counting and writing. All of these skills are necessary to our everyday lives.

Pre-teen Years
During this time, we start to change a little bit. We grow and learn many different things about ourselves. As we all know, this is usually a difficult time. We are going through school in a little bit more harder classes and might possibly be doing a high school class. We also learn a lot about our many different talents. Some of our talents may be sports and some may be drama or acting. We get to briefly experience this during our pre-teen years.

Teen Years
After we finally get through our pre-teen years, we make it to our teens. Obviously we are now in high school so we are in more classes that we may or may not struggle in. That is the beauty of school tho. School helps us learn everything that we need to know to make it to college. There are many things that we still need to learn once we get out of high school, but high school prepares us to what college may be like. During this time, you are able to improve your talents. You can practice and train in certain ways that may get you noticed by colleges.
College/Adult Life
When you make it through your high school years, you are now most likely going to go to college. You are going to be taking classes that will help you later in your job. Most likely you are going to be in a major that you are most interested in. As you choose this major, you will learn how to do everything that is associated with this major. There may be some things that you will learn on the job, but they will either teach you or tell you to figure it out. You will most likely have a job in your major field for the rest of your life.

You constantly learn as you get older.

Sources
https://hsutx.instructure.com/courses/3078/files/177496/download?wrap=1