Hayden's Blog

Memory related disorders and forgetting: The memory disorder that stood out to me is Alzheimers. I have personally affected by this disease because two people on my moms side of the family have had this disease. The thing about this disease is that the brain attacks itself. There is no cure for this disease and went you get it there is nothing you can do about it. Improving memory: The method that stood out to me was the first video. The described the method as bundling. As an example take a large group of numbers and then break them up to different groups and learn them separately. It is easier to memorize all of them that way. I believe that I found a new method to study and I am going to start using it.

Step By Step: For this assignment I had my roommate and my little brother who was visiting me have the same test ran on them. I gave both of them a notecard and a pencil before I tested them. I told them listen to the words I read out loud and then after write the words you remember down on the note card. This was the list: fish, bowl, gold, bed, sheets, pillow, blanket, materials, room, door,  window,  blinds, sun.  My roommate wrote down: fish, bowl, bed, sheets, materials, room, door, and sun.  My brother wrote down: fish, gold, bed, sheets, blanket, room, blinds, and sun.  Once they had written all the words down I told them to listen to the second list of words I was going to give them and repeat the process. This is the second list: doctor, nurse, dentist, needle, sponge, hospital, health, snore, scan, peace, medic, emergency, snooze, rest, lawyer, dream, awake, sleep.  My roommate wrote down: doctor, dentist,...

This weeks blog is about learning. One of the things that stood out to me was acquisition. Acquisition, according to the book is the point of learning process at which the neutral stimulus becomes a conditioned stimulus because it causes the conditioned response. An example of this is a dog. Two stimuli is a bell and food. When the dog hears the bell he or she knows that they are about to receive food. RESEARCH OF LEARNING When reading about learning this week I decided to look up what learning is. Learning isn't something that happens when you are only at school but learning is happening all the time and varies depending on the environment and what you are doing at this time. REAL WORLD APPLICATION  Through this I have learned that I can study two little things in a topic at a time and then put these things together to be able to know them. I believe that I will be able to obtain more knowledge at the same time and understand topics a lot better. This assignment will help ...