GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD
COGNITION AND EMOTIONS
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helps us to understand how memory works
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explains how consciiousness works
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is not useful to psychologists who study normal memory
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makes us realize that it is impossible to study memory
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Detailed explanation-1: -Professor Wallace studies memory in people who have had strokes. Professor Hansen studies people who claim to have clear memories of events that happened over three decades ago. Such research on the extremes of memory: helps people understand how memory works.
Detailed explanation-2: -He lost his ability to form many types of new memories (anterograde amnesia) such as new facts or faces, and the surgery also caused retrograde amnesia as he was able to recall childhood events, but lost the ability to recall experiences a few years before his surgery.
Detailed explanation-3: -The serial position effect is the psychological tendency to remember the first and last items in a list better than those in the middle. The serial position effect is a form of cognitive bias, and it includes both the primacy effect and the recency effect.
Detailed explanation-4: -Research suggests that sleep helps learning and memory in two distinct ways. First, a sleep-deprived person cannot focus attention optimally and therefore cannot learn efficiently. Second, sleep itself has a role in the consolidation of memory, which is essential for learning new information.
Detailed explanation-5: -Event memory differs from episodic memory in that it does not conflate the independent dimensions of whether or not a memory is relived, is about the self, is recalled voluntarily, or is based on a single encoding with whether it is recalled as a single occurrence of a scene.