Nature vs Nurture

People can become evil by their surrounding environment. For example, putting a good person in a bad town that promotes smoking and drugs will tempt that person to do them as well. People who turn evil are the ones who have no choice of where to go but to become one of their influence. In Zimbardo's story, the guards turn evil because they work long hours without break. They need something "fun" to do, that's why they harrassed the prisoners. Also, they're low ranked so they have a superior feeling in an isolated environment where no one tells them what to do. I think that this is an outrage, people don't have the right to judge themselves so rightly and start harrassing other people because they are different.

Lucifer effect: good God became evil as he descends to Hell as Satan.

Influence

I'd say Harry Potter movies would be the influence on me. I've been watching Harry Potter since 5th grade, and it progresses as I grow older. I feel like I'm living in a different part of the world whenever I'm watching it (study in a castle, quidditch, magic, and Latin related stuff.) The plot is pretty interesting overall. This movie influenced me by giving me a sense of accomplishment that you can do something beyond your abilities to do it. Therefore, I often try to better myself in real life at things I normally do. Also, Harry Potter's parents aren't there with him which makes me feel sympathetic that my dad is not living with me in America. Still, I'm not alone since I have other people in my family and some friends. Also, watching Harry Potter might influence me to go to London :P.

Memory usage

I could use my memory to recall an event that happened in recent past and share it with someone. I could use recognition and sensory memory to encode new information like learning in school. Rehearsal technique can also be useful to study before a test, since several repetitions will help me encode and recall information faster. Studying takes more effort in processing than eat food. I can use "chunking" to separate information so I can encode it better. Hippocampus: stores memories and emotion. Implicit memory: unconscious memory. Explicit memory: conscious memory

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Memory Video

Life Without Memory: Clive Wearing, Part 1+2

Damage to his frontal lobe, loss of memory. Clive doesn't remember his past but can remember his family. Brief encoding of information, Clive forgets as soon as he receives it. Clive has to look at his watch all the time because he can't recall which time interval it is. He doesn't remember which person he sees through the day, but he still retain his ability to sing and play piano. Clive has to keep notes of what he did to remind him.

Living with Amnesia

The Hippocampus controls emotion, learning, and memory. People know their existence by having a memory. When Mike's hippocampus is damaged, he loses his memory, known as amnesia. Memory loss can also result in depression, because emotion is also disturbed. Mike can remember long term memory like working with his hands, but can't remember short term ones like what people tell him recently. He also remembers his daily routines. Long term potentiation: electrical stimulations trigger memories to occur.

Memory test

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They asked me to remember which flower is in which position that "hides the bee" in each different set of 2 flowers. The point of this research is to test out my memory to see if I still remember which flower belongs to which group. I had it right most of the time. Conclusion is if the same images occur over time, people will have a better chance of grasping them and get them right than just one time.

Be a Juror

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I was asked to see whether the defendant is guilty or not. I said guilty. People can sometimes be misled by misinformation and be framed for something they didn't do.

Alzheimer's Disease

People can't remember what happens to them recently but can recall an important event from the past. Nucleus Dorsalis: neurons sending signals throughout the brain. In Alzheimer's, this part decays, leaving the person with forgetfulness. The memories are blocked, people can't retrieve them when they have this disease. People get Alzheimer's at their 50's in average. Tests show that a normal brain will react faster to sound and visuals than a brain affected with Alzheimer's. Sometimes a person can be left with speech problems if not treated, but the social skills retain. People sometimes talk to inanimate objects or imaginary people.

Sleep: Brain Functions

The brain's still working while asleep. People and animals can die without sleep for a long time. Average person spends 7-8 hrs (1/3 of their life) sleeping. Brain sends electrical waves for person to enter sleep and dreams to happen. Brainwaves increase as the person progresses through sleep, but move very slowly. Sleep walking occurs during deep sleep. Rapid Eye Movement (REM) occurs when deep sleep waves go back to stage 1 waves, but the person is not awake yet. This is when a person moves his/her eyes while closing them like following a scene (in a dream). Most people move/toss while they're asleep, to loosen up muscles.

The Placebo Effect: Mind/Body Relationship

People overestimate that a product will work because the seller must be telling the truth saying that it will. In reality, people's brain forces them to think that a certain product will help them to relieve their pains/illnesses but physically they're still the same as they were (or worse) before taking in any product/drugs/vitamins/tonics. Sometimes people are too desperate in their current conditions that they will try anything to help. Often times, people don't want to be disappointed that the product won't work, so their brain is pushing them toward their goal faster because they're eager to see the results instead of actually knowing them (ex: buying a new pen you like won't help you score higher on the test, but it will give you confidence to believe that it is "lucky.") By believing so strongly in something, people can actually make it happen in their minds. I read The Crucible last year, and the point of the story is about a group of girls who believe that other towners are hurting them but in reality their brains are just playing tricks on them so they can get out of trouble. Placebo effect can be emotional or physical. The endorphine is a hormone released by the brain to relieve pain. Stress and injuries can increase endorphine.

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'7 sins of memory': transience- short time memory, forgetting quickly. Absent-mindedness- people can't always remember or recall all the things they do through the day (ex. meeting someone and forgetting their name later on.) Blocking- can't remember things properly or not at all but the person has an idea that it's there. Blocking occurs from minutes to days. Misattribution- people mix up in remembering things or events from one source to another (a thing or person they see in a dream/television that is carried out to reality when they talk). Suggestibility- false memory suggested by other people, changing a person's beliefs. Bias- can't see things/people the way they are but according to you or other people; thinking all the good actions are ours and the bad ones are from others' fault. Persistence means that we can't get rid of a particular memory because it's always on our mind. Persistence can mean an important memory or a bad one. People can get depress thinking about the past that should not have happened. Sometimes people live on by holding on what's in the past instead of embracing new things. "Super Memo," a program used to learn languages. People will remember better when they have several reminders for them.
Sometimes it helps to group things separately instead of trying to learn them at once, as Ebbinghaus showed.

Proactive interference: old info overlapping new info. Example: me learning new language sometimes I use words from my other language into context. When I start playing a new game then come back to the old one I forget its key configs, thinking they're the same as the old one's but they're not.

Retroactive interference: new info overlaps old info: after learning English, I kinda forgot some of my root language.

--- 7 Sins of Memories, 4 Things at once, Want to remember everything you've learned?

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I'm 17, I live in Webster. I like playing tennis on my free time. I also like playing video games and going to eat at buffets. One game I play is Ragnarok Online, you gotta try it out (if you want). I have a sister going to UR. I took driver's ed over the summer and filing stuff at Strong Hospital. I would like to major in Biochemistry and looking toward Suny ESF. My favorite color is blue or teal. I sometimes go to the bookstore to read mangas. I also watch animes like Death Note and Detective Conan.