From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Sun Oct 1 03:51:11 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Jake Andreason) Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 20:51:11 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] (no subject) Message-ID: After listening to tuesdays lecture I realized that I have seen a lot of people do wierd things. I know that mode errors are something that people do naturally, but if you are the one who does it you always feel so stupid afterwards. Just as an example my freind was telling me about how one morning she put her makeup on and then washed her face. So pretty much taking off all the makeup she just spent all morning on. She really wasn't happy with herself after she realized what she had done too. I've personally done dumb things like after making a sandwhich I put the bread in the fridge and the lunchmeat in the pantry. The lapses can have a tendency to scare the crap out of you though. The worst one is when you are really tired before a class and you find yourself zoning out then come back to realize you somehow got to class and sat down without realizing you were even at school yet. From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Sun Oct 1 20:15:06 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Kyle Murdock) Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2006 13:15:06 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] Agnosia.. In-Reply-To: <200610011802.k91I23X5015974@topo.csbs.utah.edu> Message-ID:
I just have to say that I feel really bad for people that have any type of agnosia that we have discussed in class. To them the world must be a very unfamiliar place. If you didn't know what something was or how to identify it, how would you go through everyday life? I would suspect that most of these people could not have jobs and they would need someone around them most of the time. What would television look like to them? I hope I never have to live with that problem.
 
A question that has been raised in my mind is that I would assume that these people have to use more bottom up processing than top down processing. This would be because they cant name what something is. There is also a problem with this because they can't piece things together. Can I conclude that both top-down and bottom up are useless to them? Thanks,
 
Kyle Murdock
From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Sun Oct 1 21:57:41 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Jacob Hansen) Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2006 14:57:41 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] weekly posting Message-ID:

First, I would like to make reference to this submission to the board.


"I agree with the Resource Model.  I think there are a few activities that
can be done together.  For instance, I could easily study with orquestra
music on.  And I can chew gum and type (like I'm doing right now).  And even
some more complex things like sing and vacuum.  But until our lecture last
week, I was convinced that I could do something as "dual task demanding" as
talk on a cell phone and ______. Fill in the blank.  Drive, walk, read,
clean the house.  But I completely realize that a cell phone conversation
takes up a lot of my brain's energy.  I stall while cleaning, I make the
wrong turns while driving, and I don't notice anyone around me when I
walk... if I'm on a cell phone.  Another thing I learned:  I did the
Pedestrian and Cellphones Experiment.  And I walked much slower when I was
on a cell phone!  By about 25% .  I was amazed!
           Emily"

So I after reading,  some of the simmilar activities that i perform at work, one problem is at times I am operating heavy machinery.  Since learning about the inhibatory effects of the cell phone I have made a commitment to myself not to perform the same "dual task" combination ever again.  I also notice how there becomes like a glass of water full is 100% devotion to a task, to add more tasks is like adding additional glasses,  so if i want to talk on the cell phone and drive i have to poour some of the water into the other glass, one thing i have been having difficulty with though, is though we learn to drive "very well" and can dual task while driving, personal examples include: writting addresses down on a piece of paper while talking on the cell phone while driving, there have been many times where i have actually had to look for a pen. i guess what i am getting at is though we do attend to other tasks while driving we should not, in class i heard the number one priority should be on the road, but sadly it is not. As technology continues to be packed into our tiny portable communication devices i fear the consequences that could come to people who opperate a motor vehicle and attempt to use these devices.


JAKE
From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Sun Oct 1 22:26:33 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (jolene stehlin) Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2006 15:26:33 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] (no subject) Message-ID: The other day I came into my room and meant to pick my cell phone up off the bed and set my glass of water down on my night stand. Well, I did pick up my cell phone, but then I set my glass of water on the bed instead of the nightstand. As I was sopping up the water, I remembered how we talked about these kinds of mistakes or mode errors, in lecture last Tuesday. It's always fascinating to learn that little errors like these that happen to everyone all the time actually have names and have been studies. Since lecture I have been noticing them more and more. _________________________________________________________________ Find a local pizza place, music store, museum and more…then map the best route! http://local.live.com From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Mon Oct 2 01:08:30 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Becca Vrabel) Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 00:08:30 +0000 Subject: [Psych3120] cell phones/drinking and driving Message-ID: I know how impaired people can get when they are driving and talking on the phone. When someone drinks and drives, the amount of alcohol they have consumed affects them differently than the same amount of alcohol would affect a different person. There aren't different affects/levels of driving and talking on the phone. I would be interested to see how the studies we've learned about would play out in the real world. (I know that is impossible to find out...) Lexi was right when she mentioned how differently people act in a real life situation rather than in a simulator. People simply don't pay nearly as close of attention to the road if there is no one monitoring them on a computer. In real life, they would be playing music and be much more relaxed and inattentive. _________________________________________________________________ Get today's hot entertainment gossip http://movies.msn.com/movies/hotgossip From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Mon Oct 2 02:38:24 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (hailey Woodside) Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2006 19:38:24 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] human factors Message-ID:

I just read the five short stories that go with the human factors lecture we had in class. I thought it was really interesting that when you read each of the stories, it is easy to pinpoint each time a mistake was made in a serious of mistakes that ultimately ended up leading to something really unfortunate happening in each story. It is interesting, and also (in three of the stories) really tragic that such simple human errors led to people dying...when they easily could have been prevented by a more intelligent design of the technology the people were using. The one thing that I found sort of nerve racking in the 'set phasers on stun' story was that it seems like computers programs also tend to have unforseen glitches...it's scarey when you think about all the times we use computers in our lives now, because there are so many things that can happen to cause a huge problem no one ever thought of. Human Factors has never been something that I was too interested in but after reading those stories I can really see the importance of it!

Hailey


"The greatest thing you will ever learn is just to love and be loved in return."
 
 
From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Mon Oct 2 04:22:46 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (William Gordon) Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2006 21:22:46 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] Thanks, Eve In-Reply-To: <200609301802.k8UI23Dt000813@topo.csbs.utah.edu> Message-ID: I liked the readings about system design and human error. I bet crazy freak accidents like the one in Set Phasers on Stun happen all the time throughout the world. We might here of them from time to time, but I bet it happens every single day. I think hospitals are scary. I don't like 'em because we all know that humans are fallible creatures, and I don't like trusdting my health to someone that might not read a monitor right, and then I never wake up. But I don't base my life around it because I know that I'm much more likely to die trying to navigate the University's road system. Anyway, I bet you were glad you took the time to read this. One last thing: Eve, you were very helpful on Thursday with the review. Thanks. >From: psych3120-request@lists.csbs.utah.edu >Reply-To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu >To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu >Subject: Psych3120 digest, Vol 1 #922 - 6 msgs >Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 12:02:03 -0600 (MDT) > >Send Psych3120 mailing list submissions to > psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu > >To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/listinfo.cgi/psych3120 >or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > psych3120-request@lists.csbs.utah.edu > >You can reach the person managing the list at > psych3120-admin@lists.csbs.utah.edu > >When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific >than "Re: Contents of Psych3120 digest..." > > >Today's Topics: > > 1. Slips, lapses and mode errors (Keith Radley) > 2. Stroop Tests (Katie) > 3. Honda making cars that can "see" (Katie) > 4. Message for the Board (Emily Slager) > 5. Anesthesiology (JESSE SITTERUD) > 6. intattentional blindness in action! (Sabreena Khan) > >--__--__-- > >Message: 1 >From: "Keith Radley" >To: "psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu" >Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 15:08:30 -0600 >Subject: [Psych3120] Slips, lapses and mode errors >Reply-To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu > >--_2851b376-e067-4f61-a0e8-e8904177b6d7_ >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > >When we talked about slips, lapses and mode errors, I recognized that I >com= >mit some of these from time to time, but I didn't think that it would be a >= >very common occurrence. But since the lecture, I have become more aware >of= > lots of the things that I do automatically or mistakenly. A prime >example= > of a slip happened this morning when I rolled out of bed. I went >straight= > to shower and then to eat breakfast, as I normally do. As I was eating, >I= > looked the window and noticed it looked darker than usual. When I >checked= > the time, it was only 3 o'clock-my first class begins at 9. I have such >a= > routine in the morning that I didn't even check the time when I woke up. >= >Instead, I proceeded to get ready for the day. I guess that slips, lapses >= >and mode errors may be more common than I thought at first! >_________________________________________________________________ >Share your special moments by uploading 500 photos per month to Windows >Liv= >e Spaces=20 >http://clk.atdmt.com/MSN/go/msnnkwsp0070000001msn/direct/01/?href=3Dhttp://= >www.get.live.com/spaces/features= > >--_2851b376-e067-4f61-a0e8-e8904177b6d7_ >Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > >=0A= >=0A= >=0A= >=0A= >When we talked about slips, lapses and mode errors, I recognized >that= > I commit some of these from time to time, but I didn't think that it >would= > be a very common occurrence.  But since the lecture, I have >bec= >ome more aware of lots of the things that I do automatically or >mistakenly.= >  A prime example of a slip happened this morning when I rolled out >of= > bed.  I went straight to shower and then to eat breakfast, as I >norma= >lly do.  As I was eating, I looked the window and noticed it looked >da= >rker than usual.  When I checked the time, it was only 3 o'clock-my >fi= >rst class begins at 9.  I have such a routine in the morning >tha= >t I didn't even check the time when I woke up.  Instead, I proceeded >t= >o get ready for the day.  I guess that slips, lapses and mode errors >m= >ay be more common than I thought at first!
Share >y= >our special moments by uploading 500 photos per month to Windows Live >Space= >s href=3D'http://clk.atdmt.com/MSN/go/msnnkwsp0070000001msn/direct/01/?= >href=3Dhttp://www.get.live.com/spaces/features ' target=3D'_new'>Share >it!<= >/a>=0A= >= > >--_2851b376-e067-4f61-a0e8-e8904177b6d7_-- > >--__--__-- > >Message: 2 >Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 15:33:03 -0600 >From: "Katie" >To: >Subject: [Psych3120] Stroop Tests >Reply-To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu > >This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > >------_=_NextPart_001_01C6E40E.D81B1E2E >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > >I missed last week but wanted to share my experiences with Stroop tests. = >Some of you might be familiar with Stroop tests, as I am, because of = >Nintendo's "Brain Age" game. I wanted to recommend it because it's fun = >and supposed to be good for exercising the brain, and it relates to this = >class. The game provides tests to calculate your current "brain age" and = >provides math, logic and reading skills building exercises to improve = >cognitive functioning. The game is based on the work of Dr. Ryuta = >Kawashima, a prominent Japanese neuroscientist. >It includes the Stroop test with the words of colors shown in different = >colors. No matter how many times I do it, it's so difficult to train the = >mind to separate the word and the color of the word. I can almost feel = >my brain stopping and having to think about it. The only way I've found = >to increase the score on this test is to not look directly at the word, = >so I am not distracted by what the letters spell out, I just see the = >color of the letters and can speak it faster because my brain only has = >to do process the one thing instead of both. =20 >=20 >Katie Johnson > >------_=_NextPart_001_01C6E40E.D81B1E2E >Content-Type: text/html; > charset="iso-8859-1" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > >=0A= >charset=3Dunicode">=0A= >=0A= >=0A= >
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I missed last week but wanted to share my = >experiences with Stroop tests. Some of you might be familiar with Stroop = >tests, as I am, because of Nintendo's "Brain Age" game. I wanted to = >recommend it because it's fun and supposed to be good for exercising the = >brain, and it relates to this class. The game provides tests to = >calculate your current "brain age" and provides math, logic and reading = >skills building exercises to improve cognitive functioning. The game is = >based on the work of Dr. Ryuta Kawashima, a prominent Japanese = >neuroscientist.
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It includes the Stroop test with the words of colors = >shown in different colors. No matter how many times I do it, it's so = >difficult to train the mind to separate the word and the color of the = >word. I can almost feel my brain stopping and having to think about it. = >The only way I've found to increase the score on this test is to not = >look directly at the word, so I am not distracted by what the letters = >spell out, I just see the color of the letters and can speak it faster = >because my brain only has to do process the one thing instead of both. = > 
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Katie Johnson
>------_=_NextPart_001_01C6E40E.D81B1E2E-- > >--__--__-- > >Message: 3 >Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 15:37:07 -0600 >From: "Katie" >To: >Subject: [Psych3120] Honda making cars that can "see" >Reply-To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu > >This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > >------_=_NextPart_001_01C6E40F.69D47914 >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > >I came across this article today and thought it was appropriate to share = >with the class. I thought it was interesting, and I remembered in the = >textbook the author mentioned how some things could never be done by = >computers, and one of those things was drive, because they could never = >be able to "see" and process like people can. It's pretty amazing what = >they can do though: >Katie Johnson >=20 >=20 >Honda wants to give its cars depth perception. The automotive giant has = >quietly put $5 million over three years into Canesta, which specializes = >in chips that help computers make sense out of 3D spaces. The company's = >best known product is a virtual keyboard: Users plunk down their fingers = >on the laser light images resembling a keyboard and their finger = >movements are translated to keystrokes.=20 >Honda believes Canesta's chips could help drivers know how close they = >are to other parked cars, pedestrians, and get other similar, useful = >information. Automakers are also examining ultrasonics (sound waves) or = >stereoscopic technologies to give drivers better information about their = >surroundings.=20 >"It provides a comparatively low-cost chip-based 3D 'camera' that could = >serve multiple applications from a single installation," said Toshinori = >Arita, head of venture arm Honda Strategic Venturing, in a prepared = >statement.=20 >Conceivably, the chips could be integrated into the body of a car or the = >cockpit. Honda is still in the testing and design phase, although it has = >pinpointed car models that it will try to put the technology into, said = >Canesta president Jim Spare.=20 >"We're initially focused on the slower speed applications," he said. = >"Things like occupancy sensing for air bag deployments."=20 >Canesta's product consists of a light source, a pattern projector and a = >sensor. The light and pattern projector sends out a continuous rain of = >beams of light. When the signals bounce back, they hit the sensor, which = >creates a 3D image from the timing of the reflected signals and send it = >to the processor.=20 >"The key innovation is that we don't have to do any processing of the = >data (on a microprocessor) to create a 3D image. The sensor calculates = >the distances," Spare said. "The microprocessor is used only for = >application processing. Is this a pedestrian or a tree?"=20 >When something moves into a region patrolled by the chip, the signals = >bounce back at a different pace, and the 3D image is changed. Software = >translates the mass of data into information or an image that humans can = >understand.=20 >Automakers have been dedicating more time and research into safety. Some = >of the ideas being explored include putting devices or systems in the = >car that would warn drivers of objects in the road or prevent the car = >from switching lanes when a speeding car is in the driver's blind spot.=20 >Herman Casier, a researcher from Belgium's AMI Semiconductor speculated = >at a chip conference last year that by 2040, cars will drive on = >auto-pilot.=20 >Spare added that Canesta has licensed its keyboard technology to a South = >Korean company who is looking for partners to develop it commercially.=20 >=20 >=20 > >------_=_NextPart_001_01C6E40F.69D47914 >Content-Type: text/html; > charset="iso-8859-1" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > >=0A= >charset=3Dunicode">=0A= >=0A= >=0A= >
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I came across this article today and thought it was = >appropriate to share with the class. I thought it was interesting, and I = >remembered in the textbook the author mentioned how some things = >could never be done by computers, and one of those things was drive, = >because they could never be able to "see" and process like people can. = >It's pretty amazing what they can do though:
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Honda wants to give its cars depth perception. The = >automotive giant has quietly put $5 million over three years into = >Canesta, which specializes in chips that help computers make sense out = >of 3D spaces. The company's best known product is a virtual keyboard: = >Users plunk down their fingers on the laser light images resembling a = >keyboard and their finger movements are translated to keystrokes. >
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Honda believes Canesta's chips could help drivers = >know how close they are to other parked cars, pedestrians, and get other = >similar, useful information. Automakers are also examining ultrasonics = >(sound waves) or stereoscopic technologies to give drivers better = >information about their surroundings.
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"It provides a comparatively low-cost chip-based 3D = >'camera' that could serve multiple applications from a single = >installation," said Toshinori Arita, head of venture arm Honda Strategic = >Venturing, in a prepared statement.
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Conceivably, the chips could be integrated into the = >body of a car or the cockpit. Honda is still in the testing and design = >phase, although it has pinpointed car models that it will try to put the = >technology into, said Canesta president Jim Spare.
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"We're initially focused on the slower speed = >applications," he said. "Things like occupancy sensing for air bag = >deployments."
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Canesta's product consists of a light source, a = >pattern projector and a sensor. The light and pattern projector sends = >out a continuous rain of beams of light. When the signals bounce back, = >they hit the sensor, which creates a 3D image from the timing of the = >reflected signals and send it to the processor.
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"The key innovation is that we don't have to do any = >processing of the data (on a microprocessor) to create a 3D image. The = >sensor calculates the distances," Spare said. "The microprocessor is = >used only for application processing. Is this a pedestrian or a tree?" = >
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When something moves into a region patrolled by the = >chip, the signals bounce back at a different pace, and the 3D image is = >changed. Software translates the mass of data into information or an = >image that humans can understand.
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Automakers have been dedicating more time and = >research into safety. Some of the ideas being explored include putting = >devices or systems in the car that would warn drivers of objects in the = >road or prevent the car from switching lanes when a speeding car is in = >the driver's blind spot.
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Herman Casier, a researcher from Belgium's AMI = >Semiconductor speculated at a chip conference last year that by 2040, = >cars will drive on auto-pilot.
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Spare added that Canesta has licensed its keyboard = >technology to a South Korean company who is looking for partners to = >develop it commercially.
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>------_=_NextPart_001_01C6E40F.69D47914-- > >--__--__-- > >Message: 4 >Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 16:54:14 -0600 >From: "Emily Slager" >To: "Cognitive Psychology" >Subject: [Psych3120] Message for the Board >Reply-To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu > >------=_Part_40302_12626335.1159570454814 >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >Content-Disposition: inline > >I agree with the Resource Model. I think there are a few activities that >can be done together. For instance, I could easily study with orquestra >music on. And I can chew gum and type (like I'm doing right now). And >even >some more complex things like sing and vacuum. But until our lecture last >week, I was convinced that I could do something as "dual task demanding" as >talk on a cell phone and ______. Fill in the blank. Drive, walk, read, >clean the house. But I completely realize that a cell phone conversation >takes up a lot of my brain's energy. I stall while cleaning, I make the >wrong turns while driving, and I don't notice anyone around me when I >walk... if I'm on a cell phone. Another thing I learned: I did the >Pedestrian and Cellphones Experiment. And I walked much slower when I was >on a cell phone! By about 25% . I was amazed! > Emily > >------=_Part_40302_12626335.1159570454814 >Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >Content-Disposition: inline > >I agree with the Resource Model.  I think there are a few >activities that can be done together.  For instance, I could >easily study with orquestra music on.  And I can chew gum and type >(like I'm doing right now).  And even some more complex things >like sing and vacuum.  But until our lecture last week, I was >convinced that I could do something as "dual task demanding" as >talk on >a cell phone and ______. Fill in the blank.  Drive, walk, read, >clean the house.  But I completely realize that a cell phone >conversation takes up a lot of my brain's energy.  I stall while >cleaning, I make the wrong turns while driving, and I don't notice >anyone around me when I walk... if I'm on a cell phone.  Another >thing I learned:  I did the Pedestrian and Cellphones >Experiment.  And I walked much slower when I was on a cell >phone!  By about 25% .  I was amazed!
>           Emily
> >------=_Part_40302_12626335.1159570454814-- > >--__--__-- > >Message: 5 >From: "JESSE SITTERUD" >To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu >Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 19:35:43 -0600 >Subject: [Psych3120] Anesthesiology >Reply-To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu > >Just a thought, at one point I was seriously considering going into >anesthesiology. But after what was covered on the topic of anesthesiology >in class this past week I'm now reminded why I chose to move in a different >direction. Just hearing those statistics of the often occuring unexpected >incidences, and the number of fatalities that have resulted in just one >year >really showed me the stress and pressure that I would have been facing. I >mean, 1 fatality every 5 minutes from these unexpected errors says it all! > >_________________________________________________________________ >Search—Your way, your world, right now! >http://imagine-windowslive.com/minisites/searchlaunch/?locale=en-us&FORM=WLMTAG > > >--__--__-- > >Message: 6 >Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 21:30:25 -0700 (PDT) >From: Sabreena Khan >To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu >Subject: [Psych3120] intattentional blindness in action! >Reply-To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu > >oh man. so i was sitting on the stoop, smoking a >cigarette. i was staring at a van parked across the >street, in front of a neighbor's house. i noticed that >on the van, the company name "pond's" was on it; it >was parked in the opposite of the 'proper direction' a >car should park, if a car were to park across the >street. i saw it. i looked at it. i took notice of it, >and stored it away in my cute little brain. i guess i >kind of dazed off--was sort of looking 'through' the >house and its yard. when i 'came to', i noticed that >the van was just pulling in--in the proper direction. >I NEVER SAW IT LEAVE. it was so bizarre. i was so >taken back by the fact that i was staring RIGHT AT THE >SCENE, and didn't even notice the van pulling away, >turning around, and proceeding to pull forward in the >proper manner. >weird. >sabreena khan > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around >http://mail.yahoo.com > > >--__--__-- > >_______________________________________________ >Psych3120 mailing list >Psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu >http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/listinfo.cgi/psych3120 > > >End of Psych3120 Digest _________________________________________________________________ Add fun gadgets and colorful themes to express yourself on Windows Live Spaces http://clk.atdmt.com/MSN/go/msnnkwsp0070000001msn/direct/01/?href=http://www.get.live.com/spaces/features From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Mon Oct 2 04:25:45 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Kim Endersen) Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2006 20:25:45 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Psych3120] Cell Phone Laws Message-ID: <20061002032545.45697.qmail@web35304.mail.mud.yahoo.com> --0-118208802-1159759545=:37188 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Reading the postings, I've noticed a trend; alot of people have commented that cell phone use while driving should be outlawed. Well, after some research, I have discovered that there are at least 2 US Senators that agree with you. Sen. Joseph Lieberman from CT has supported a bill in the US Senate that would make cell phone use while driving illegal. While it's a step, the bill faces a long, uphill battle before becoming law. First, it has to be passed in identical language in the House of Representatives. Secondly, there is steep opposition from (surprise, surprise) the cell phone companies, who pay a lot of money every year to certain campaigns and to their lobbyists. The cell phone companies argue that there is no real research to suggest that cell phone use while driving is dangerous. I'm sure Dr. Strayer would disagree. --------------------------------- Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. Make PC-to-Phone Calls to the US (and 30+ countries) for 2¢/min or less. --0-118208802-1159759545=:37188 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Reading the postings, I've noticed a trend; alot of people have commented that cell phone use while driving should be outlawed.  Well, after some research, I have discovered that there are at least 2 US Senators that agree with you.  Sen. Joseph Lieberman from CT has supported a bill in the US Senate that would make cell phone use while driving illegal.   While it's a step, the bill faces a long, uphill battle before becoming law.  First, it has to be passed in identical language in the House of Representatives.  Secondly, there is steep opposition from (surprise, surprise) the cell phone companies, who pay a lot of money every year to certain campaigns and to their lobbyists.  The cell phone companies argue that there is no real research to suggest that cell phone use while driving is dangerous.  I'm sure Dr. Strayer would disagree. 

Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. Make PC-to-Phone Calls to the US (and 30+ countries) for 2¢/min or less. --0-118208802-1159759545=:37188-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Mon Oct 2 04:26:34 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Kasey lundgren) Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2006 20:26:34 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Psych3120] modes posting 4 Message-ID: <20061002032634.96493.qmail@web33003.mail.mud.yahoo.com> --0-130041669-1159759594=:96383 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit i just got done reading the five short stories for the class. It is so crazy to see how work overload can impair you so much that it could cause the loss of someone Else's life or yours. The most interesting story that i read was about the nuclear plant and the three men who were on duty the night it had pretty much a melt down. It was so sad to see that it all could have been avoided if there were more detailed instructions and the out lay of the nuclear rods had been better planned out. i can not imagine what it would have been like to see those three me in that building after the explosion. All of these article show how overload can create major chaos. In the case of the radiation machine it wasn't so much that the nurse was overloaded but the machine its self was not capable of handling the multiple command and figuring out that she had made an error. The system was never tested for those sorts of circumstances which ultimately cause a man his life, not to mention the six other areas the same problem had been reported. i found my self recognizing how an immense overload of information has effected me before, not quite as serous as a major power outage or not being able to fly a plane but it has still effect stressful situations and made them more complicated. Kasey --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Get on board. You're invited to try the new Yahoo! Mail. --0-130041669-1159759594=:96383 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
i just got done reading the five short stories for the class. It is so crazy to see how
work overload can impair you so much that it could cause the loss of someone Else's
life or yours. The most interesting story that i read was about the nuclear plant and
the three men who were on duty the night  it had pretty much a melt down. It was so
sad to see that it all could have been avoided if there were more detailed instructions
and the out lay of the nuclear rods had been better planned out. i can not imagine
what it would have been like to see those three me in that building after the explosion.
        All of these article show how overload  can create
major chaos. In the case of the radiation machine it wasn't so much that the nurse
was overloaded but the machine its self was not capable of handling the multiple
command and figuring out that she had made an error. The system was never tested for
those sorts of circumstances which ultimately cause a man his life, not to mention
the six other areas the same problem had been reported.  i found my self recognizing
 how an immense overload of information has effected me before, not quite as serous
as a major power outage or not being able to fly a plane but it has still effect stressful
situations and made them more complicated.
Kasey

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Get on board. You're invited to try the new Yahoo! Mail. --0-130041669-1159759594=:96383-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Mon Oct 2 04:33:17 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Ariann Beglarian) Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2006 20:33:17 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Psych3120] Slips, Lapses and Modes Message-ID: <20061002033317.67153.qmail@web31615.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Unfortunately I am a victim of slips, lapses and mode errors on a daily basis. I always forget to do things that are out of the ordinary and inconsistent with my daily routines...sadly I'll remember at a horrible point in time (like while I'm lying in bed) that I had completely forgotten to stop by the library, or stop at the gas station, or run by the bank...etc. I constantly forget things I just barely did...like I will spend ten minutes searching for a pen and within moments of finding one, I'll have no recollection of where I just set it. I find myself saying "I just had it! Where did it go?". The worst part is usually it's right in front of me or even in my hand! Also, the example with the person throwing away their glasses and continuing to hold dirty tissues in his hand-I do that a lot, too. I've done things almost exactly like that...accidentally throwing away the wrong thing and continuing to hold the trash in my hand. I'm glad I'm not the only one who has these problems...I thought for sure there for a minute I was having memory problems, either that or I just had way too much on my mind to pay close attention to the simple, trivial things I was doing in between. I also wanted to express how awful I thought the human error case studies were. I thought one of the worst ones was the nuclear meltdown...those poor guys!! Holy cow...thats horrible! Its really sad that tragedies like that are what it takes to realize there's an error in the design. Sad stories. Well, good luck to all on the test in two days! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Mon Oct 2 18:58:35 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Reed Dow) Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 11:58:35 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] smoke alarms In-Reply-To: <200610020325.k923OWCX024977@topo.csbs.utah.edu> Message-ID: I just read an interesting news bit about new smoke alarms that use the recorded sound of a mother's or father's voice instead of a beeping noise to wake children. Appearantly, the sound of a familiar voice is much more effective in raising children from sleep than a repetitive beeping is. This makes me wonder about the cognitive processes that occur that make this happen. It sounds like top down processing is working in this case, a mother's urgent demand to wake up (something that has been heard before and has been learned to be important) has more weight on behavior than a loud beeping noise does. It's awesome how research like this and implementation can produce things like this that seem so simple, yet will probably save hundreds of lives. Reed From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Mon Oct 2 19:10:39 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (ryan green) Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 11:10:39 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Psych3120] Contribution 5 Message-ID: <20061002181039.65581.qmail@web34308.mail.mud.yahoo.com> --0-1951313692-1159812639=:65557 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Slips and Lapses and Mode Errors, Oh My! At the beginning of this past week, as I was musing about the week to come, I was suddenly stricken by an idea that there may be some relationship between busyness and slips, lapses and mode errors (which, for the rest of this article and the sake of my sanity, I will refer to as SLM). So, based on this musing, I decided to do a one man, one week study to hopefully better understand this phenomenon. As the week went on, I noticed an exponential increase in the amount of SLM in my daily life. As I began to do my initial analysis, it became painfully obvious that there definitely was a causal relationship between the amount of responsibilities I was faced with, as the week went on, and the amount of SLM I was encountering. I will summarize the responsibilities for you in the text, and you can reference the graph below to further see the relationship between busyness and error! It all started on Sunday, my day of rest. Sunday, was relaxing and there wasn¡¦t much to do except to lightly muse about the week ahead and its grueling schedule. As you can see in the graph, there were relatively low counts for SLM for Sunday due to the fact that all I did was muse. Monday, however, began seeing the beginning of an extraordinary increase in SLM. Mondays schedule was as follows: 1. Worry about Tuesday¡¦s Social Psych test; 2. Frantically start preparing for said test; 3. Walk the cat. So, as you can see, there was a steady increase in responsibility from Sunday¡¦s leisure to Monday¡¦s responsibilities. And the data, as predicted, shows an increase in SLM. Tuesday, was rather interesting. I saw a 15 fold increase in the amount of slips and still a steady increase in other SLM¡¦s. I have attributed this Tuesday¡¦s increase to the following: 1. The stress involved in taking the Social Psych test; 2. The fact that I woke up late and didn¡¦t get any coffee; 3. The fact that my mom called me to go change her tire that was now flat; 4. Started worrying about Thursday¡¦s Research Methods (RM) test; 5. Had a lot of scary dreams Monday night, too. So, looking forward to Wednesday and the SLM¡¦s that it would bring, I put Tuesday behind me and trudged on. Wednesday again saw an increase in busyness: 1. Freak out about the coming RM test; 2. Coffee maker broke; 3. Phone broke; 4. Internet went down; 5. Sister called with a flat tire; 6. Forgot about the RM test. 7. Tried to put my piece of toast into my car ignition and put the key in my mouth. And as you can see, the amount of SLM¡¦s is consistent with this further increase of stress. Let me make this long story short! By Friday, I had colored my hair pink (with highlighters) and washed my Cognitive Psych book with shampoo, bit off all my fingernails (and 3 toenails), traded my cat in for a frog which I took home and dissected and gave my T-bone steak some crickets to eat, and popped my own tire with a hammer and nail. So, as you can see, I¡¦m very tired and hope that Eve will count this for my 5th week contribution (by the way Eve, you did a great job at the review!!! And your hair looks lovely today. Plus the graph took me forever to make!). (Much to my surprise, the graph will not copy into the body of this text...so, I'm trying to figure out how to make it work...please bear with me, and if you never see the graph, just know that it was ingenius). Ps. If you want to read the rest of the findings, just look for December¡¦s copy of American Psychologist. My findings will be featured in the cover story. Pps. Some of the above information may not be accurate due to extreme fatigue and SLM¡¦s! Thanks, Gryan Reen --------------------------------- How low will we go? Check out Yahoo! Messenger’s low PC-to-Phone call rates. --0-1951313692-1159812639=:65557 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Slips and Lapses and Mode Errors, Oh My!
 
            At the beginning of this past week, as I was musing about the week to come, I was suddenly stricken by an idea that there may be some relationship between busyness and slips, lapses and mode errors (which, for the rest of this article and the sake of my sanity, I will refer to as SLM). So, based on this musing, I decided to do a one man, one week study to hopefully better understand this phenomenon. As the week went on, I noticed an exponential increase in the amount of SLM in my daily life. As I began to do my initial analysis, it became painfully obvious that there definitely was a causal relationship between the amount of responsibilities I was faced with, as the week went on, and the amount of SLM I was encountering. I will summarize the responsibilities for you in the text, and you can reference the graph below to further see the relationship between busyness and error!
            It all started on Sunday, my day of rest. Sunday, was relaxing and there wasn¡¦t much to do except to lightly muse about the week ahead and its grueling schedule.  As you can see in the graph, there were relatively low counts for SLM for Sunday due to the fact that all I did was muse. Monday, however, began seeing the beginning of an extraordinary increase in SLM. Mondays schedule was as follows: 1. Worry about Tuesday¡¦s Social Psych test; 2. Frantically start preparing for said test; 3. Walk the cat. So, as you can see, there was a steady increase in responsibility from Sunday¡¦s leisure to Monday¡¦s responsibilities. And the data, as predicted, shows an increase in SLM. Tuesday, was rather interesting. I saw a 15 fold increase in the amount of slips and still a steady increase in other SLM¡¦s. I have attributed this Tuesday¡¦s increase to the following: 1. The stress involved in taking the Social Psych test; 2. The fact that I woke up late and didn¡¦t get any coffee; 3. The fact that my mom called me to go change her tire that was now flat; 4. Started worrying about Thursday¡¦s Research Methods (RM) test; 5. Had a lot of scary dreams Monday night, too. So, looking forward to Wednesday and the SLM¡¦s that it would bring, I put Tuesday behind me and trudged on. Wednesday again saw an increase in busyness: 1. Freak out about the coming RM test; 2. Coffee maker broke; 3. Phone broke; 4. Internet went down; 5. Sister called with a flat tire; 6. Forgot about the RM test. 7. Tried to put my piece of toast into my car ignition and put the key in my mouth. And as you can see, the amount of SLM¡¦s is consistent with this further increase of stress. Let me make this long story short! By Friday, I had colored my hair pink (with highlighters) and washed my Cognitive Psych book with shampoo, bit off all my fingernails (and 3 toenails), traded my cat in for a frog which I took home and dissected and gave my T-bone steak some crickets to eat, and popped my own tire with a hammer and nail. So, as you can see, I¡¦m very tired and hope that Eve will count this for my 5th week contribution (by the way Eve, you did a great job at the review!!! And your hair looks lovely today. Plus the graph took me forever to make!).
 
(Much to my surprise, the graph will not copy into the body of this text...so, I'm trying to figure out how to make it work...please bear with me, and if you never see the graph, just know that it was ingenius).  
 
 
 Ps. If you want to read the rest of the findings, just look for December¡¦s copy of American Psychologist. My findings will be featured in the cover story.
 
Pps. Some of the above information may not be accurate due to extreme fatigue and SLM¡¦s!
 
Thanks,
Gryan Reen
 
 

How low will we go? Check out Yahoo! Messenger’s low PC-to-Phone call rates. --0-1951313692-1159812639=:65557-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Mon Oct 2 21:21:29 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (tucker voss) Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 14:21:29 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] Slips Message-ID: The other day I got to witness a slip happen. I was with my friend and climbing partner Ben, and we were on our way up the canyon to go climbing. So Ben came to my house to pick me up and after we started going I noticed that he didn’t get on the freeway, which is the fastest way to the canyon. At first I just thought that he was taking a different way, so I didn’t say anything. After a few minutes I realized that we were going the same way that we usually go to the climbing gym, but still I didn’t say anything because the climbing gym was somewhat on the way to the canyons. It wasn’t until we pulled into the parking lot of the gym that Ben noticed where we were. By this point I was laughing and I explained to him what we had just learned about slips. He said to me that he had a lot on his mind that day which gives me the impression that the more you have going on in your head, the more slips, lapses, and mode errors are going to occur. _________________________________________________________________ All-in-one security and maintenance for your PC.  Get a free 90-day trial! http://clk.atdmt.com/MSN/go/msnnkwlo0050000001msn/direct/01/?href=http://www.windowsonecare.com/?sc_cid=msn_hotmail From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Mon Oct 2 22:16:45 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu) Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 14:16:45 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Psych3120] multi tasking Message-ID: <20061002211645.88718.qmail@web56506.mail.re3.yahoo.com> --0-1795443212-1159823805=:88323 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sometimes when I'm at work I try to do three things at the same time. I'll get on the phone with a store and try to help them while reviewing an account. Then I'll be filling out paperwork for something else that needs to be done. While I know I can do all these tasks separately when I'm trying to do everything at once something usually gets sent back to me that hasn't been done correctly. I forgot to sign something, or I coded something wrong. I feel I'm pretty good at multi-tasking but I could identify with the lecture when he talked about how all the tasks suffer when you try to do more than one thing at a time. Debra Hanger __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com --0-1795443212-1159823805=:88323 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Sometimes when I'm at work I try to do three things at the same time.  I'll get on the phone with a store and try to help them while reviewing an account.  Then I'll be filling out paperwork for something else that needs to be done.  While I know I can do all these tasks separately when I'm trying to do everything at once something usually gets sent back to me that hasn't been done correctly.  I forgot to sign something, or I coded something wrong.  I feel I'm pretty good at multi-tasking but I could identify with the lecture when he talked about how all the tasks suffer when you try to do more than one thing at a time.
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http://mail.yahoo.com --0-1795443212-1159823805=:88323-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Mon Oct 2 23:23:05 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Jennie Ruff) Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 16:23:05 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] A battery of things. Message-ID: <4D224055-680F-4482-B6EA-7FDB1EA3DC8A@impulsion-sim.com> I wanted to start out by sharing that after the lecture where we watched the video of the people playing basketball accompanied for a brief moment by a man in a gorilla suit, I decided to see if it was an accurate assumption that people told to focus on the black shirts would see the gorilla. Just to be fair (and for my own amusement) I tested ten people, five for the white shirts and five for the black. Four out of five of those who were looking at the white shirts did not see the gorilla, while all five who were looking at the black shirts did. Interesting, eh? I couldn't believe it without trying it; not after I personally didn't see him until he was pointed out. The second thing I wanted to talk about was how interesting Dr. Strayer's studies on Drunk Driving v. Cell Phone driving were to me. The information provided was valuable, but I think more tests need to be done. I'd heard about the tests months before in the paper, and they had what I'd consider to be a very detrimental effect on the behavior of some old acquaintances. Right after the article came out, they started using it as an excuse to drive drunk! They very conveniently left out (selective attention anyone?) that the people who were tested had a .08 BAC, while I am sure their BAC was well above that. I hope more tests will be done on people who's BAC is above .08 - and their results published a.s.a.p. From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Tue Oct 3 06:03:08 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Dan Laxman) Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2006 05:03:08 +0000 Subject: [Psych3120] Slips and Mode Errors Message-ID: I thought the lecture on human error, particularly slips and mode errors was extremely interesting, and perhaps more personally relevant than I would like to admit. I work at a financial institution as a teller. In that capacity, I perform the same tasks hundreds of times over (deposit the check, cash the check, pay a loan, etc.) These job tasks definitely qualify as automatic routines. Because these tasks are so routine, at times, I tend to pay less attention to what I am doing than I should. For example, most businesses deposit all of their money in their checking account. Maybe 1 in 100 put it in their savings account. Consequently, I occasionally exhibit a “slip” by depositing the funds in the checking when the customer wanted them deposited into the savings. I have found myself making similar errors in other routine practices as well. I thought about this and how I could avoid making these mistakes. I can not really change the procedure of how I receive and deposit the funds—partly because the procedure is not in my control and also because the procedure is stream lined for efficiency. One thing I did add was to repeat to the customer what I did with their funds (i.e., deposited into savings). This helped reduce errors because often the customer would catch the error. However, there are many times that he or she too misses the error. This could be a lapse of their own or a result of talking on the cell phone while making their deposit, thus not paying full attention to what is going on around them—and all too often, even what they tell me to do with the funds! An example of mode errors (right action in the wrong context) comes from my friend who also works at this financial institution. He told me that he at times answers his own phone, “_____ Bank. This is _____. May I help you?” to which his friends respond with laughter. -Dan Laxman From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Tue Oct 3 06:26:35 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Brett Larsen) Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 22:26:35 -0700 Subject: [Psych3120] Yep Message-ID: I was reading in the book that some researchers contend that when we are dual tasking we are really not dual tasking at all we are just switching back and forth from one task to another. I really dont think in my opinion this is right because i dont see how you can listen to the radio talk to a friend and drive all at the same time. It just seems impossible to me to be doing that much switching wouldnt it just be easier to think that we just do things at the same time, although we might be impaired while we do this? _________________________________________________________________ Try the new Live Search today! http://imagine-windowslive.com/minisites/searchlaunch/?locale=en-us&FORM=WLMTAG From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Tue Oct 3 06:31:33 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Claudia Guarderas) Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 23:31:33 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] Slips Message-ID: ------=_Part_71661_28715160.1159853493911 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Today was not a good day for a slip. When I woke up I noticed how dark it was outside so I placed my umbrella next to my keys in order not to forget to take it. Well, as luck would have it, I became distracted by the am news and then all of the sudden I was running late. In the haste of it all I somehow managed to remember I had to grab my keys; however failed to grab the umbrella as well and grabbed an empty water bottle I did not have a need for today. I did not recall the fact that I had forgotten the umbrella till a few seconds after I was out the door. I should have gone back to get it but didn't so I paid the price in the afternoon when it literally started pouring. Now this makes me wonder...does a time crunch often play a part on our slips?? If I was to base it only on what happened this am I would have to say yes but from what I gathered in lecture it doesn't seem like it always does. ------=_Part_71661_28715160.1159853493911 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline

Today was not a good day for a slip. When I woke up I noticed how dark it was outside so I placed my umbrella next to my keys in order not to forget to take it. Well, as luck would have it, I became distracted by the am news and then all of the sudden I was running late. In the haste of it all I somehow managed to remember I had to grab my keys; however failed to grab the umbrella as well and grabbed an empty water bottle I did not have a need for today. I did not recall the fact that I had forgotten the umbrella till a few seconds after I was out the door. I should have gone back to get it but didn't so I paid the price in the afternoon when it literally started pouring. Now this makes me wonder...does a time crunch often play a part on our slips??  If I was to base it only on what happened this am I would have to say yes but from what I gathered in lecture it doesn't seem like it always does.

------=_Part_71661_28715160.1159853493911-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Tue Oct 3 23:51:15 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Jennifer Adams) Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 16:51:15 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] driving Message-ID: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_002D_01C6E70C.24702170 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_002E_01C6E70C.24702170" ------=_NextPart_001_002E_01C6E70C.24702170 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable =20 Just a quick answer about whether or not passengers actually do help the driver navigate=85.I carpool with a person who gets talking and will = literally miss her exit. I am focused on the road more than she is to make sure we have better odds of getting to class in one piece=85=85 =20 =20 =20 ------=_NextPart_001_002E_01C6E70C.24702170 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Just a quick answer about whether or = not passengers actually do help the driver navigate….I carpool with a person who = gets talking and will literally miss her exit. I am focused on the road more = than she is to make sure we have better odds of getting to class in one = piece……

 

  

 

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Cool. In-Reply-To: <200610031828.k93IRUvK024302@topo.csbs.utah.edu> Message-ID: I don’t know about ya’ll, but I am glad to be done with that test. I mean, thirty-three percent is a big hit. I guess it wasn’t as bad as I had anticipated, but still, I am glad it’s over. I’m looking forward to the break. I won’t be around after tonight for the rest of the week, so I thought I would post my weekly comment real quick. Now that I’m posting, I don’t really know what to talk about. It seems as though everything we have talked about this last few weeks has been run into the ground at this point. So anyway, might I recommend some chocolate stout from the Oktoberfest if you feel like doing your own studies on cognition and how the mind doesn’t work when you have had a few pints. And there, my comment is now related to cognitive science. Enjoy your break. >From: psych3120-request@lists.csbs.utah.edu >Reply-To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu >To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu >Subject: Psych3120 digest, Vol 1 #926 - 8 msgs >Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 12:27:30 -0600 (MDT) > >Send Psych3120 mailing list submissions to > psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu > >To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/listinfo.cgi/psych3120 >or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > psych3120-request@lists.csbs.utah.edu > >You can reach the person managing the list at > psych3120-admin@lists.csbs.utah.edu > >When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific >than "Re: Contents of Psych3120 digest..." > > >Today's Topics: > > 1. smoke alarms (Reed Dow) > 2. Contribution 5 (ryan green) > 3. Slips (tucker voss) > 4. multi tasking (dog_log1@yahoo.com) > 5. A battery of things. (Jennie Ruff) > 6. Slips and Mode Errors (Dan Laxman) > 7. Yep (Brett Larsen) > 8. Slips (Claudia Guarderas) > >--__--__-- > >Message: 1 >From: "Reed Dow" >To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu >Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 11:58:35 -0600 >Subject: [Psych3120] smoke alarms >Reply-To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu > > >I just read an interesting news bit about new smoke alarms that use the >recorded sound of a mother's or father's voice instead of a beeping noise >to >wake children. Appearantly, the sound of a familiar voice is much more >effective in raising children from sleep than a repetitive beeping is. This >makes me wonder about the cognitive processes that occur that make this >happen. It sounds like top down processing is working in this case, a >mother's urgent demand to wake up (something that has been heard before and >has been learned to be important) has more weight on behavior than a loud >beeping noise does. >It's awesome how research like this and implementation can produce things >like this that seem so simple, yet will probably save hundreds of lives. > >Reed > > > >--__--__-- > >Message: 2 >Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 11:10:39 -0700 (PDT) >From: ryan green >To: 3120 Class message >Subject: [Psych3120] Contribution 5 >Reply-To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu > >--0-1951313692-1159812639=:65557 >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > >Slips and Lapses and Mode Errors, Oh My! > > At the beginning of this past week, as I was musing about >the week to come, I was suddenly stricken by an idea that there may be some >relationship between busyness and slips, lapses and mode errors (which, for >the rest of this article and the sake of my sanity, I will refer to as >SLM). So, based on this musing, I decided to do a one man, one week study >to hopefully better understand this phenomenon. As the week went on, I >noticed an exponential increase in the amount of SLM in my daily life. As I >began to do my initial analysis, it became painfully obvious that there >definitely was a causal relationship between the amount of responsibilities >I was faced with, as the week went on, and the amount of SLM I was >encountering. I will summarize the responsibilities for you in the text, >and you can reference the graph below to further see the relationship >between busyness and error! > It all started on Sunday, my day of rest. Sunday, was >relaxing and there wasn¡¦t much to do except to lightly muse about the week >ahead and its grueling schedule. As you can see in the graph, there were >relatively low counts for SLM for Sunday due to the fact that all I did was >muse. Monday, however, began seeing the beginning of an extraordinary >increase in SLM. Mondays schedule was as follows: 1. Worry about Tuesday¡¦s >Social Psych test; 2. Frantically start preparing for said test; 3. Walk >the cat. So, as you can see, there was a steady increase in responsibility >from Sunday¡¦s leisure to Monday¡¦s responsibilities. And the data, as >predicted, shows an increase in SLM. Tuesday, was rather interesting. I saw >a 15 fold increase in the amount of slips and still a steady increase in >other SLM¡¦s. I have attributed this Tuesday¡¦s increase to the following: >1. The stress involved in taking the Social Psych test; 2. The fact that I >woke up late and didn¡¦t get > any coffee; 3. The fact that my mom called me to go change her tire that >was now flat; 4. Started worrying about Thursday¡¦s Research Methods (RM) >test; 5. Had a lot of scary dreams Monday night, too. So, looking forward >to Wednesday and the SLM¡¦s that it would bring, I put Tuesday behind me >and trudged on. Wednesday again saw an increase in busyness: 1. Freak out >about the coming RM test; 2. Coffee maker broke; 3. Phone broke; 4. >Internet went down; 5. Sister called with a flat tire; 6. Forgot about the >RM test. 7. Tried to put my piece of toast into my car ignition and put the >key in my mouth. And as you can see, the amount of SLM¡¦s is consistent >with this further increase of stress. Let me make this long story short! By >Friday, I had colored my hair pink (with highlighters) and washed my >Cognitive Psych book with shampoo, bit off all my fingernails (and 3 >toenails), traded my cat in for a frog which I took home and dissected and >gave my T-bone steak some crickets to > eat, and popped my own tire with a hammer and nail. So, as you can see, >I¡¦m very tired and hope that Eve will count this for my 5th week >contribution (by the way Eve, you did a great job at the review!!! And your >hair looks lovely today. Plus the graph took me forever to make!). > > (Much to my surprise, the graph will not copy into the body of this >text...so, I'm trying to figure out how to make it work...please bear with >me, and if you never see the graph, just know that it was ingenius). > > > Ps. If you want to read the rest of the findings, just look for >December¡¦s copy of American Psychologist. My findings will be featured in >the cover story. > > Pps. Some of the above information may not be accurate due to extreme >fatigue and SLM¡¦s! > > Thanks, > Gryan Reen > > > > >--------------------------------- >How low will we go? Check out Yahoo! Messenger’s low PC-to-Phone call >rates. >--0-1951313692-1159812639=:65557 >Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > >
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How low will we go? >Check out Yahoo! Messenger’s low href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/postman8/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=39663/*http://voice.yahoo.com"> >PC-to-Phone call rates. >--0-1951313692-1159812639=:65557-- > >--__--__-- > >Message: 3 >From: "tucker voss" >To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu >Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 14:21:29 -0600 >Subject: [Psych3120] Slips >Reply-To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu > >The other day I got to witness a slip happen. I was with my friend and >climbing partner Ben, and we were on our way up the canyon to go climbing. >So Ben came to my house to pick me up and after we started going I noticed >that he didn’t get on the freeway, which is the fastest way to the canyon. >At first I just thought that he was taking a different way, so I didn’t say >anything. After a few minutes I realized that we were going the same way >that we usually go to the climbing gym, but still I didn’t say anything >because the climbing gym was somewhat on the way to the canyons. It wasn’t >until we pulled into the parking lot of the gym that Ben noticed where we >were. By this point I was laughing and I explained to him what we had just >learned about slips. He said to me that he had a lot on his mind that day >which gives me the impression that the more you have going on in your head, >the more slips, lapses, and mode errors are going to occur. > >_________________________________________________________________ >All-in-one security and maintenance for your PC.  Get a free 90-day trial! >http://clk.atdmt.com/MSN/go/msnnkwlo0050000001msn/direct/01/?href=http://www.windowsonecare.com/?sc_cid=msn_hotmail > > >--__--__-- > >Message: 4 >Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 14:16:45 -0700 (PDT) >From: >To: tech mode >Subject: [Psych3120] multi tasking >Reply-To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu > >--0-1795443212-1159823805=:88323 >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > >Sometimes when I'm at work I try to do three things at the same time. I'll >get on the phone with a store and try to help them while reviewing an >account. Then I'll be filling out paperwork for something else that needs >to be done. While I know I can do all these tasks separately when I'm >trying to do everything at once something usually gets sent back to me that >hasn't been done correctly. I forgot to sign something, or I coded >something wrong. I feel I'm pretty good at multi-tasking but I could >identify with the lecture when he talked about how all the tasks suffer >when you try to do more than one thing at a time. > Debra Hanger > > __________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around >http://mail.yahoo.com >--0-1795443212-1159823805=:88323 >Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > >
Sometimes when I'm at work I try to do three things at the same >time.  I'll get on the phone with a store and try to help them while >reviewing an account.  Then I'll be filling out paperwork for >something else that needs to be done.  While I know I can do all these >tasks separately when I'm trying to do everything at once something usually >gets sent back to me that hasn't been done correctly.  I forgot to >sign something, or I coded something wrong.  I feel I'm pretty good at >multi-tasking but I could identify with the lecture when he talked about >how all the tasks suffer when you try to do more than one thing at a >time.
Debra Hanger

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http://mail.yahoo.com >--0-1795443212-1159823805=:88323-- > >--__--__-- > >Message: 5 >To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu >From: Jennie Ruff >Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 16:23:05 -0600 >Subject: [Psych3120] A battery of things. >Reply-To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu > >I wanted to start out by sharing that after the lecture where we >watched the video of the people playing basketball accompanied for a >brief moment by a man in a gorilla suit, I decided to see if it was >an accurate assumption that people told to focus on the black shirts >would see the gorilla. Just to be fair (and for my own amusement) I >tested ten people, five for the white shirts and five for the black. >Four out of five of those who were looking at the white shirts did >not see the gorilla, while all five who were looking at the black >shirts did. Interesting, eh? I couldn't believe it without trying it; >not after I personally didn't see him until he was pointed out. > >The second thing I wanted to talk about was how interesting Dr. >Strayer's studies on Drunk Driving v. Cell Phone driving were to me. >The information provided was valuable, but I think more tests need to >be done. I'd heard about the tests months before in the paper, and >they had what I'd consider to be a very detrimental effect on the >behavior of some old acquaintances. Right after the article came out, >they started using it as an excuse to drive drunk! They very >conveniently left out (selective attention anyone?) that the people >who were tested had a .08 BAC, while I am sure their BAC was well >above that. I hope more tests will be done on people who's BAC is >above .08 - and their results published a.s.a.p. > >--__--__-- > >Message: 6 >From: "Dan Laxman" >To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu >Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2006 05:03:08 +0000 >Subject: [Psych3120] Slips and Mode Errors >Reply-To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu > >I thought the lecture on human error, particularly slips and mode errors >was >extremely interesting, and perhaps more personally relevant than I would >like to admit. I work at a financial institution as a teller. In that >capacity, I perform the same tasks hundreds of times over (deposit the >check, cash the check, pay a loan, etc.) These job tasks definitely >qualify >as automatic routines. Because these tasks are so routine, at times, I >tend >to pay less attention to what I am doing than I should. For example, most >businesses deposit all of their money in their checking account. Maybe 1 >in >100 put it in their savings account. Consequently, I occasionally exhibit >a >“slip” by depositing the funds in the checking when the customer wanted >them >deposited into the savings. I have found myself making similar errors in >other routine practices as well. I thought about this and how I could >avoid >making these mistakes. I can not really change the procedure of how I >receive and deposit the funds—partly because the procedure is not in my >control and also because the procedure is stream lined for efficiency. One >thing I did add was to repeat to the customer what I did with their funds >(i.e., deposited into savings). This helped reduce errors because often >the >customer would catch the error. However, there are many times that he or >she too misses the error. This could be a lapse of their own or a result >of >talking on the cell phone while making their deposit, thus not paying full >attention to what is going on around them—and all too often, even what they >tell me to do with the funds! > >An example of mode errors (right action in the wrong context) comes from my >friend who also works at this financial institution. He told me that he at >times answers his own phone, “_____ Bank. This is _____. May I help you?” >to which his friends respond with laughter. > >-Dan Laxman > > > >--__--__-- > >Message: 7 >From: "Brett Larsen" >To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu >Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 22:26:35 -0700 >Subject: [Psych3120] Yep >Reply-To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu > >I was reading in the book that some researchers contend that when we are >dual tasking we are really not dual tasking at all we are just switching >back and forth from one task to another. I really dont think in my opinion >this is right because i dont see how you can listen to the radio talk to a >friend and drive all at the same time. It just seems impossible to me to be >doing that much switching wouldnt it just be easier to think that we just >do >things at the same time, although we might be impaired while we do this? > >_________________________________________________________________ >Try the new Live Search today! >http://imagine-windowslive.com/minisites/searchlaunch/?locale=en-us&FORM=WLMTAG > > >--__--__-- > >Message: 8 >Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 23:31:33 -0600 >From: "Claudia Guarderas" >To: psych3120 >Subject: [Psych3120] Slips >Reply-To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu > >------=_Part_71661_28715160.1159853493911 >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >Content-Disposition: inline > >Today was not a good day for a slip. When I woke up I noticed how dark it >was outside so I placed my umbrella next to my keys in order not to forget >to take it. Well, as luck would have it, I became distracted by the am news >and then all of the sudden I was running late. In the haste of it all I >somehow managed to remember I had to grab my keys; however failed to grab >the umbrella as well and grabbed an empty water bottle I did not have a >need >for today. I did not recall the fact that I had forgotten the umbrella till >a few seconds after I was out the door. I should have gone back to get it >but didn't so I paid the price in the afternoon when it literally started >pouring. Now this makes me wonder...does a time crunch often play a part on >our slips?? If I was to base it only on what happened this am I would have >to say yes but from what I gathered in lecture it doesn't seem like it >always does. > >------=_Part_71661_28715160.1159853493911 >Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >Content-Disposition: inline > >

Today was not a good day for a slip. When I woke up I noticed how dark >it was outside so I placed my umbrella next to my keys in order not to >forget to take it. Well, as luck would have it, I became distracted by the >am news and then all of the sudden I was running late. In the haste of it >all I somehow managed to remember I had to grab my keys; however failed to >grab the umbrella as well and grabbed an empty water bottle I did not have >a need for today. I did not recall the fact that I had forgotten the >umbrella till a few seconds after I was out the door. I should have gone >back to get it but didn't so I paid the price in the afternoon when it >literally started pouring. Now this makes me wonder...does a time crunch >often play a part on our slips??  If I was to base it only on what >happened this am I would have to say yes but from what I gathered in >lecture it doesn't seem like it always does. >

> >------=_Part_71661_28715160.1159853493911-- > > >--__--__-- > >_______________________________________________ >Psych3120 mailing list >Psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu >http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/listinfo.cgi/psych3120 > > >End of Psych3120 Digest _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself - download free Windows Live Messenger themes! http://clk.atdmt.com/MSN/go/msnnkwme0020000001msn/direct/01/?href=http://imagine-msn.com/themes/vibe/default.aspx?locale=en-us&source=hmtagline From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Wed Oct 4 17:13:31 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Kevin Mangum) Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 09:13:31 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Psych3120] Dyslexic Message-ID: <20061004161331.44098.qmail@web52613.mail.yahoo.com> --0-556973962-1159978411=:43384 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Looking around about information on the magnocellular system, I found some interesting information about Dyslexic people and thee posssible conection between dyslexicia and the magnocellular system. The research might suggest that visual processing difficulties may be indicative of impairment in the visual magnocellular system (a pathway made up of large neurones known as magnocells, by which information is passed from the eyes to the brain). Dyslexic people may be unable to process fast-incoming sensory information adequately. For more information go to http://www.dfes.gov.uk/readwriteplus/understandingdyslexia/resources/theorytables/cognitive/visualprocessing/ --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail. --0-556973962-1159978411=:43384 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Looking around about information on the magnocellular system, I found some interesting information about Dyslexic people and thee posssible conection between dyslexicia and the magnocellular system. The research might suggest that visual processing difficulties may be indicative of impairment in the visual magnocellular system (a pathway made up of large neurones known as magnocells, by which information is passed from the eyes to the brain). Dyslexic people may be unable to process fast-incoming sensory information adequately. For more information go to
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Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail. --0-556973962-1159978411=:43384-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Wed Oct 4 23:09:53 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Benjamin Divine) Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 15:09:53 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Psych3120] Real Human Error Message-ID: <20061004220953.29520.qmail@web42101.mail.mud.yahoo.com> --0-363748951-1159999793=:28998 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit After reading the compilation of stories from the "Set Phasers on Stun" readings, I am understanding more and more how the field of psychology plays a crucial role in the construction and engineering of common creations. I was stunned after reading the story about the fighter pilot who could not get his plane off the ground because of the new system design of the plane. It is hard for me to imagine that engineers of this new plane did not check and make sure that each pilot was familiar with its new functioning. I guess they just don't get paid to think about that kind of stuff. I remember when a particular type of Rollerblades came out with a new design of a braking system in the front of the shoe instead of the usual back. I recall this being a mild controversy but I do believe that many people complained from not being used to the front brake system which resulted in crashing. This would be like changing the brake and gas petal around without really telling consumers. Engineers must be constantly aware of human errors from psychological factors such as these and put extensive focus on how consumers might operate their item with no instruction. --------------------------------- Talk is cheap. Use Yahoo! Messenger to make PC-to-Phone calls. Great rates starting at 1¢/min. --0-363748951-1159999793=:28998 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit After reading the compilation of stories from the "Set Phasers on Stun" readings, I am understanding more and more how the field of psychology plays a crucial role in the construction and engineering of common creations.  I was stunned after reading the story about the fighter pilot who could not get his plane off the ground because of the new system design of the plane.  It is hard for me to imagine that engineers of this new plane did not check and make sure that each pilot was familiar with its new functioning.  I guess they just don't get paid to think about that kind of stuff.  I remember when a particular type of Rollerblades came out with a new design of a braking system in the front of the shoe instead of the usual back.  I recall this being a mild controversy but I do believe that many people complained from not being used to the front brake system which resulted in crashing.  This would be like changing the brake and gas petal around without really telling consumers.  Engineers must be constantly aware of human errors from psychological factors such as these and put extensive focus on how consumers might operate their item with no instruction.   

Talk is cheap. Use Yahoo! Messenger to make PC-to-Phone calls. Great rates starting at 1¢/min. --0-363748951-1159999793=:28998-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Thu Oct 5 18:42:56 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Emily Slager) Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 11:42:56 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] Message for the Board #5 Message-ID: <759c1ffd0610051042q1d02a740qabd02e417dbf481c@mail.gmail.com> ------=_Part_4427_15447345.1160070176475 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Hello! I know we already took our test, but I'd like to add in my 2 cents about a topic of discussion. Those 5 articles from "Set Phrasers on the Stun" were very scary to me! In one sense, I believe that technology has gotten too much out of control and has ruined the quality of life-- at least a little bit. But these 5 cases made me realize that technology, if used right, could help prevent major human errors! I cannot believe some of the jobs that humans have been in charge of in the past. The anecdotes go to show that human brains cannot function as perfectly as a computer. We can become overloaded with sensory information, make mistakes even after perfecting our job. And this can lead to horrible consequences. Dr. Strayer's plane control that he helped invent seems to be a positive solution for this: have control panels appeal to many sensory areas, so one area of the brain isn't overloaded. And also, have everything easy to understand. This way, if a crisis were occuring, the technology would be the easiest thing to manuver. This should be the goal when building new technology. ------=_Part_4427_15447345.1160070176475 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Hello!
    I know we already took our test, but I'd like to add in my 2 cents about a topic of discussion. Those 5 articles from "Set Phrasers on the Stun" were very scary to me!  In one sense, I believe that technology has gotten too much out of control and has ruined the quality of life-- at least a little bit.  But these 5 cases made me realize that technology, if used right, could help prevent major human errors!  I cannot believe some of the jobs that humans have been in charge of in the past.  The anecdotes go to show that human brains cannot function as perfectly as a computer.  We can become overloaded with sensory information, make mistakes even after perfecting our job.  And this can lead to horrible consequences.  Dr. Strayer's plane control that he helped invent seems to be a positive solution for this:  have control panels appeal to many sensory areas, so one area of the brain isn't overloaded.  And also, have everything easy to understand.  This way, if a crisis were occuring, the technology would be the easiest thing to manuver.  This should be the goal when building new technology.
    
------=_Part_4427_15447345.1160070176475-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Fri Oct 6 16:06:04 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Katie) Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 09:06:04 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] Driving with headphones Message-ID: <4E9A09E16264024C80C968D5CFCCB7AB017FA7@xeoni.digitalbreakdown.com> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C6E958.F1605DFA Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I know in class we talked a lot about the dangers of distractions like = cell phones, headsets, and text messaging, among other things. I see = people doing these all the time, and I wanted to add something else I = see people doing a lot- driving while wearing headphones! I see this a = few times a week, people driving while wearing the small ipod earbuds or = even large fully cover-your-ears headphones! This is one of the reasons = why I mainly take Trax to school and work, I DO NOT want to be on the = road with these people. Interestingly, when trying to look up studies = and articles on the effects of wearing headphones while driving, I found = out that it is ILLEGAL in most states. I cannot wait until talking on = cell phones is illegal too, even though I'm sure it probably won't = really cut down on the number of people that do it.=20 =20 Katie Johnson ------_=_NextPart_001_01C6E958.F1605DFA Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable =0A= =0A= =0A= =0A=
I know in class we = talked a lot about the dangers of distractions like cell phones, = headsets, and text messaging, among other things. I see people = doing these all the time, and I wanted to add something else I see = people doing a lot- driving while wearing headphones! I see this a few = times a week, people driving while wearing the small ipod earbuds or = even large fully cover-your-ears headphones! This is one of the reasons = why I mainly take Trax to school and work, I DO NOT want to be on the = road with these people. Interestingly, when trying to look up studies = and articles on the effects of wearing headphones while driving, I found = out that it is ILLEGAL in most states. I cannot wait until talking on = cell phones is illegal too, even though I'm sure it probably won't = really cut down on the number of people that do it.
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------_=_NextPart_001_01C6E958.F1605DFA-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Fri Oct 6 16:27:16 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu) Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 10:27:16 -0500 Subject: [Psych3120] The complexity of the visual system (Romney Stevens) Message-ID: <20061006102716.xo46ebc7okooss4g@wm.integrity.com> I think it is interesting that in studying for that first 1-page response question there is so much information to go over that you have to condense it down. It made me realize how complex the visual process system really is. For instance, the fact that images hit the fovea upside down, but is then processed right side up is amazing. Also, the fact that the magnocellular pathways are able to tell where something is while the parvocellular pathways are able to tell what something is, that is something that I will never be able to fully understand, even though I use it all of the time. I guess I'm just saying that it has helped me to appreciate the fact that I can see things as I do. From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Fri Oct 6 19:13:44 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Justin Crump) Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 12:13:44 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] Online readings In-Reply-To: <200610051803.k95I34aJ025322@topo.csbs.utah.edu> Message-ID:

Let me just start off this email with saying how interesting I thought the online readings were. In learning about the different errors we make: i.e. slips, lapses, and mode errors. Human error happens so frequently and I didn't fully realize the large effects it can have on the lives of others.

 How tragic would it be to be the man in the first article: "Set phasers on stun."? To be lying there helpless as you were receiving what could be literally bolts of lighting. Again and again these bolts of lightning shot through your body. This immense amount of pain and 4 months later even death just  because of a simple human error.

 Also the article about the guys in the reactor hit me particularly hard. In reading how just pulling a 44 cobalt-aluminum flux rod just a few inches too far ended up costing 3 men their lives. Not only this but their families were obviously tragically affected all because a rod was pulled out to far. I found the description of the finding of the third man particuarly interesting due to the graphic description of the finding. To read how he was pinned to the ceiling with his arms and legs drooping down and the rod that was holding him up to the ceiling.

 All in all I just wanted to comment on how not only did I read the articles but how interesting I found them.


Try the new Live Search today! From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Fri Oct 6 23:43:40 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Jake Andreason) Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 16:43:40 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] (no subject) Message-ID: I've been reading through the set phasers on stun online reading and I think it's pretty amazing. When you look at it from an outside perspective you really notice how easy it is for errors to be made when in situations like this. The amount of times that Mary Beth accidentally inflicted uneccesary pain to patients is a good example of how important the roll engineering psychology can play. With the proper evaluation of control functions and their correct placment it would really help to insure the correct use of the equipment. All I have to say is that being the patient on the other end of that machine getting continually shocked would have really sucked. From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Sat Oct 7 06:45:54 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Ryan Boldrin) Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 22:45:54 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Psych3120] Test was fair Message-ID: <20061007054554.72129.qmail@web53609.mail.yahoo.com> I was unfortunate enought to have two midterms on Tuesday. The first was this class. I feel it was a fair test and look forward to seeing the results. The second midterm was Terrible. This was an 3000 level class and the test was written for grad students with years of studies in the subject. Need less to say about half way through this bear of a test my short term memory was fatigued. I noticed that I would read the questions and go to look at the answers and the question would not stay in short term memory. I would read the question several times and then go to find the answers, and blip - gone. Anyway I was wondering about how fatigue plays into driving distracted. I think this would be a compounding effect on the distrction level of dual performance tests. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Sat Oct 7 20:46:55 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Chad C Moffitt) Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2006 13:46:55 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] jonny mnemonic Message-ID: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C6EA49.57F6ED24 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable An article in Psychology in Context that I once read described = individuals with synesthesia, in which the stimulation of one sense = evokes another sense, as in visualizing color when hearing a particular = sound. One individual who was being studied mentioned how, when hearing = someone speak, every speech sound immediately summoned up a visual = image, with its own distinct form, color, and taste. Vowels appeared to = him as simple figures, consonants as splashes, and other sounds as solid = configurations. Some tones produced more vivid, intense combinations of = hues than other tones for this person. Yet, what is often remarkable = about these individuals is their incredible ability to remember = everything presented to them. For example, the individual just = described could repeat any list of numbers or letters at any length and = in any order after being presented with the list just once. More = remarkable is the fact that he remebered these lists of words and their = exact order, sometimes up to seventy words long, sixteen years after the = session in which he originally recalled the words! This made me wonder = -- What is the relationship between synesthesia and memory? Why would = these individuals show this remarkable memory capability? Because = synesthesia involves the stimulation of senses evoking other senses, = perhaps it has something to do with sensory memory. Perhaps instead of = a major filteration or a simutanious loss of information in sensory = memory that normally occurs, thus reducing the span of recall to seven = or eight items, maybe individuals with synesthesia experience an = enhancement of sensory memory recall due to the senses reinforcing each = other. Or perhaps the visual imagery summoned up by the sounds of = voices creates a type of "mental map" that distributes and organizes the = lists of words into an easily accessable walk way where the words on the = list are constructed like street signs. Interestingly enough, no = follow-up study was conducted using visual word lists as opposed to = "heard" word lists to investigate how it would affect this individual's = mnemonic ability. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C6EA49.57F6ED24 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable =0A= =0A= =0A= =0A=
An article in = Psychology in Context that I once read described individuals with = synesthesia, in which the stimulation of one sense evokes another sense, = as in visualizing color when hearing a particular sound.  One = individual who was being studied mentioned how, when hearing someone = speak, every speech sound immediately summoned up a visual image, with = its own distinct form, color, and taste.  Vowels appeared to him as = simple figures, consonants as splashes, and other sounds as solid = configurations.  Some tones produced more vivid, intense = combinations of hues than other tones for this person.  Yet, what = is often remarkable about these individuals is their incredible ability = to remember everything presented to them.  For example, the = individual just described could repeat any list of numbers or letters at = any length and in any order after being presented with the list = just once.  More remarkable is the fact that he remebered = these lists of words and their exact order, sometimes up to seventy = words long, sixteen years after the session in which he originally = recalled the words!  This made me wonder -- What is the = relationship between synesthesia and memory?  Why would = these individuals show this remarkable memory capability?  = Because synesthesia involves the stimulation of senses evoking = other senses, perhaps it has something to do with sensory memory.  = Perhaps instead of a major filteration or a simutanious loss = of information in sensory memory that normally occurs, thus = reducing the span of recall to seven or eight items, maybe individuals = with synesthesia experience an enhancement of sensory memory recall due = to the senses reinforcing each other.  Or perhaps the visual = imagery summoned up by the sounds of voices creates a type of "mental = map" that distributes and organizes the lists of words into an easily = accessable walk way where the words on the list are constructed like = street signs.  Interestingly enough, no follow-up study was = conducted using visual word lists as opposed to "heard" word lists to = investigate how it would affect this individual's mnemonic = ability.
------_=_NextPart_001_01C6EA49.57F6ED24-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Sat Oct 7 21:16:06 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Keith Radley) Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2006 14:16:06 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] More thoughts on distracted driving . . . Message-ID: --_f801323d-df56-4441-9c85-9aab5a561705_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable This week I've been thinking quite a bit about people driving while distrac= ted. We talked about how talking to a person in the car doesn't quite have= the same effect on driving as when the driver is talking on a cell phone. = But what about other distractions that a person may have while driving? C= ould they produce effects similar to that of talking on a cell phone and dr= iving? I began thinking about this because my friend was rear ended this w= eek by a guy who was shaving while he was driving. Is it possible that the= shaver could distract a driver as much, if not more, than a cell phone? I= believe so. What about other distractions that a person may have while dr= iving? I can occasionally be caught singing, dancing, and eating in the ca= r. Some people put on make-up while driving (I've never been caught doing = that). It seems that there could be plenty of other things that potentially= distract drivers more than chatting away on a cell phone. Just a thought. _________________________________________________________________ Share your special moments by uploading 500 photos per month to Windows Liv= e Spaces=20 http://clk.atdmt.com/MSN/go/msnnkwsp0100000001msn/direct/01/?href=3Dhttp://= spaces.live.com/signup.aspx = --_f801323d-df56-4441-9c85-9aab5a561705_ Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable =0A= =0A= =0A= =0A= This week I've been thinking quite a bit about people driving while d= istracted.  We talked about how talking to a person in the car doesn't= quite have the same effect on driving as when the driver is talking on a c= ell phone.  But what about other distractions that a person may have w= hile driving?  Could they produce effects similar to that of talking o= n a cell phone and driving?  I began thinking about this because my fr= iend was rear ended this week by a guy who was shaving while he was driving= .  Is it possible that the shaver could distract a driver as much, if = not more, than a cell phone?  I believe so.  What about other dis= tractions that a person may have while driving?  I can occasionally be= caught singing, dancing, and eating in the car.  Some people put on m= ake-up while driving (I've never been caught doing that). It seems that the= re could be plenty of other things that potentially distract drivers more t= han chatting away on a cell phone.  Just a thought.
Sh= are your special moments by uploading 500 photos per month to Windows Live = Spaces Share it!<= /a>=0A= = --_f801323d-df56-4441-9c85-9aab5a561705_-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Sun Oct 8 02:22:52 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Alisha Christiasnen) Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2006 18:22:52 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Psych3120] Misc. Message-ID: <20061008012252.34194.qmail@web56606.mail.re3.yahoo.com> --0-1089371166-1160270572=:32710 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit So I'm not sure what to write about this time. I have read the online readings and I also thought it interesting how easy it can sometimes be to make errors while performing a task. Also how big of an impact these errors can have on the people that are involved. With the guy that was going through the chemo treatment and how just because the system hadn't been designed that if someone punched in the wrong sequence what would happen if someone tried to correct it and because of this it cost a guy his life. Hopefully by these mistakes being made that the one's creating these technological systems we can reduce the amount of errors that are made. --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail. --0-1089371166-1160270572=:32710 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit So I'm not sure what to write about this time. I have read the online readings and I also thought it interesting how easy it can sometimes be to make errors while performing a task. Also how big of an impact these errors can have on the people that are involved. With the guy that was going through the chemo treatment and how just because the system hadn't been designed that if someone punched in the wrong sequence what would happen if someone tried to correct it and because of this it cost a guy his life. Hopefully by these mistakes being made that the one's creating these technological systems we can reduce the amount of errors that are made.

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Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail. --0-1089371166-1160270572=:32710-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Mon Oct 9 01:09:06 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Lexi Breeze) Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2006 18:09:06 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] (no subject) Message-ID: Hey! So seeing as how we're going to be discussing memory in the second portion of the class, I guess I will say a little something about that since we didn't do much this last week. Memory is one thing about the mind that fascinates me. I think especially episodic and state dependent memory. It's amazing to think about actually how much the brain is capable of, and there are so many memories you come across in your lifetime, to be able to put them into so many different categories and places and breaking them down into every little feature is just amazing. And the processes that are all involved in encoding and retrieving, I am captivated by what I already know and I'm excited to learn more. _________________________________________________________________ All-in-one security and maintenance for your PC.  Get a free 90-day trial! http://clk.atdmt.com/MSN/go/msnnkwlo0050000001msn/direct/01/?href=http://www.windowsonecare.com/?sc_cid=msn_hotmail From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Mon Oct 9 01:45:41 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (jolene stehlin) Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2006 18:45:41 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] (no subject) Message-ID: After my last class on Wednesday, I commited a costly slip. I ride Trax to school and got off at Gallivin Plaza like normal. Once the next train arrived I hopped on and went back to watching videos on my ipod. After a few videos I looked up to see where we were and was horrified to find that I was headed back up 4th South to the U, not towards Sandy. Normally when I get off at Gallivin, the first train that arrives is a Sandy train. I have come to expect that and don't check as often as I should to make sure that I am getting on the right train. By the time I got off one train, back onto another, waited for the Sandy and arrived at my final destination (work), I was more than 30 minutes late. Of course this was also the day that I was expected to be in a meeting 5 minutes after my normal start time. Needless to say, I will be much more aware of what trains I board in the future. _________________________________________________________________ All-in-one security and maintenance for your PC.  Get a free 90-day trial! http://clk.atdmt.com/MSN/go/msnnkwlo0050000001msn/direct/01/?href=http://www.windowsonecare.com/?sc_cid=msn_hotmail From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Mon Oct 9 01:53:43 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Becca Vrabel) Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 00:53:43 +0000 Subject: [Psych3120] driving Message-ID: I would just like to make an observation. I was just on a road trip and noticed practically 3 out of 5 drivers talking on their cell phones or text messaging while driving. I even saw a truck that pulling a boat in traffic whose driver was texting! People are never going to get the clue of how bad they are at driving when they are on the phone. And what about truckers talking on the phone when they are driving a semi!!! _________________________________________________________________ The next generation of Search—say hello! http://imagine-windowslive.com/minisites/searchlaunch/?locale=en-us&FORM=WLMTAG From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Mon Oct 9 03:31:56 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Paige) Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2006 22:31:56 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [Psych3120] Color Vision Message-ID: <20061009023156.5EB9999E8F@mprdmxin.myway.com> --MYWAYBOUNDARY_000__2be71c41372db35e8793c3508304494b Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit For fall break I have been lucky enough to be able to come back to New York to visit my sister. I came back with my cousin who has never been here before and one this that she really wanted to do was go to the Museum of Modern Art (or MoMA). I have already been to the MoMA on a visit and wasn't all that excited, but went with her anyways. It was amazing to walk through all of these famous peoples art work and recognize it. But even more fascinating to me were some of the illusions that they are able to create. There was a flag on the wall that was the pertained to the Opponent Theory, and I was able to show my cousin how if you stare at it long enough and then look at the blank white wall next to it how the lasting impression would be the actual American flag. While walking through the museum I noticed I seemed to have a greater appreciation for those crazy rods and cones I have in my eyes then the first time I walked through. And seeing all of these things right after that last test let it all be fresh in my mind. So rock on to color vision and the illusions that art can play with it.-Paige Baucom _______________________________________________ No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding. 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For fall break I have been lucky enough to be able to come back to New York to visit my sister. I came back with my cousin who has never been here before and one this that she really wanted to do was go to the Museum of Modern Art (or MoMA). I have already been to the MoMA on a visit and wasn't all that excited, but went with her anyways. It was amazing to walk through all of these famous peoples art work and recognize it. But even more fascinating to me were some of the illusions that they are able to create. There was a flag on the wall that was the pertained to the Opponent Theory, and I was able to show my cousin how if you stare at it long enough and then look at the blank white wall next to it how the lasting impression would be the actual American flag. While walking through the museum I noticed I seemed to have a greater appreciation for those crazy rods and cones I have in my eyes then the first time I walked through. And seeing all of these things right after that last test let it all be fresh in my mind. So rock on to color vision and the illusions that art can play with it.
-Paige Baucom




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Make My Way your home on the Web - http://www.myway.com --MYWAYBOUNDARY_000__2be71c41372db35e8793c3508304494b-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Mon Oct 9 04:25:42 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (JESSE SITTERUD) Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2006 21:25:42 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] Memory Message-ID: I have always noticed that every person has different ways of studying for exams. Everyone has there own preferred way of taking in and storing information. It makes me wonder if ones way of studying is better of more efficient than that of my own. Personally I like to use visual and audio sources of sensory input. As I read my notes and the book I do so out loud. This way I am not only taking in info visually but getting it through the auditory system. I find this to be a very powerful combo when it comes to taking in and storing information. But I would like to try other peoples methods of studying and stroring information. _________________________________________________________________ Share your special moments by uploading 500 photos per month to Windows Live Spaces http://clk.atdmt.com/MSN/go/msnnkwsp0070000001msn/direct/01/?href=http://www.get.live.com/spaces/features From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Mon Oct 9 04:35:55 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Kasey lundgren) Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2006 20:35:55 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Psych3120] modes posting Message-ID: <20061009033555.57057.qmail@web33001.mail.mud.yahoo.com> --0-1229476130-1160364955=:56177 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Since we didn't really have class this week i thought i would talk about different events in my everyday life that occur because of slips, lapses and mode errors. For instance the other day i was on my way to my grandmas house, which happens to be the direct route to my work. On the way there i was caught up thinking about other things that i drove right past my grandmas house i drove the extra five minutes to my work. The sad thing is that i didn't realize what i had done until i was parked in front of my work and then realized i wasn't supposed to be there. WOW i'm smart. OK even though he used this as an example there are probably three or four times a month that i take a shower and cannot remember if i washed my hair or my body. I have actually shaved one leg and completly forgot about the other one. I realized when i was all dried off, so i had to crawl back in the shower and shave the other one. This would be considered a slip...a pretty ridiculous one in fact ;-)! The only real mode error i can think of that i have commited is when i ride with someone else somewhere i sometimes forget that i didn't drive and pull out my keys and start looking for my car until my friend or family member asks me what in the heck i am doing and i realize my mistake. It's pretty crazy how many of these i do on a monthly bases. --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Get on board. You're invited to try the new Yahoo! Mail. --0-1229476130-1160364955=:56177 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Since we didn't really have class this week i thought i would talk about different events 
in my everyday life that occur because of slips, lapses and mode errors. For instance
the other day i was on my way to my grandmas house, which happens to be the
direct route to my work. On the way there i was caught up thinking about other things
 that i drove right past my grandmas house i drove the extra five minutes to my work.
The sad thing is that i didn't realize what i had done until i was parked in front of my
work and then realized i wasn't supposed to be there. WOW i'm smart. OK even
though he used this as an example there are probably three or four times a month that
i take a shower and cannot remember if i washed my hair or my body. I have actually
 shaved one leg and completly forgot about the other one. I realized when i was all
dried off, so i had to crawl back in the shower and shave the other one. This would be
considered a slip...a pretty ridiculous one in fact ;-)! The only real mode error i can
think of that i have commited is when i ride with someone else somewhere i
sometimes forget that i didn't drive and pull out my keys and start looking for
my car until my friend or family member asks me what in the heck i am doing and i
realize my mistake. It's pretty crazy how many of these i do on a monthly bases.

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boy am i glad that this exam is over, and i work way too much. the day we took the test was not a good day for me. to make matters worse i was late to class and felt very rushed.  i know there were several times throughout the exam that i my mind went completly blank.  i know that i by feeling rushed i was not able to articulate what was needed to properly respond to the questions, though i studied at great length once i was out of my comfort zone and felt some anxiety i cracked.  i know that the information that i studied was still in my brain but why could i not access it.  how does anxiety effect ones ability to recall information.  so i will be very interested to see how i score on the exam.  if i do not do as well as i had hoped i know that there is always another exam.




JAKE
From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Mon Oct 9 05:28:06 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (hailey Woodside) Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2006 22:28:06 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] modes post Message-ID:

I read the chapter about memory at work the other night. It is really amazing to think how much information we can store in the different types of memory we have...especially our long term memory. I was wondering if it is possible for our memory to just run out of room...or if we just get to the point where we have tons of information stored in our memory but not all of it is accesible to us....like, do we really have memories from when we were little little kids in our brain, but we just can't access them? I think the next couple weeks of class should be really interesting.

Hailey


"The greatest thing you will ever learn is just to love and be loved in return."
 
 
From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Mon Oct 9 06:02:01 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Sabreena Khan) Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2006 22:02:01 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Psych3120] real-life illusions. honest! Message-ID: <20061009050201.75536.qmail@web55409.mail.re4.yahoo.com> i, recently, landed this super cool job with an ad agency. (hooray for me!) anyhow, we shot a commercial this last week and during the setting up of the "rooms", we couldn't figure out what was going wrong. something just didn't look right. the "room" was made up of two walls and the shot was taken slightly off the direct diagonal. since the camera was not moving at all, this created a stable, singular, and very limited perspective. there were paintings that were hanging on the walls in our room, and even though they were perfectly aligned in "real life", they were horribly mismatched in the monitor. in order to correct this illusion, we were forced to hang one of the paintings about 4 or 5 inches below the other one! this just sort of reminded me of the parthenon illusion..even though something looks impressive, there was a lot of jimmy-ing around to make it LOOK that way.. sabreena khan __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Mon Oct 9 06:22:40 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (brian Thomas) Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2006 22:22:40 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Psych3120] modes Message-ID: <20061009052240.84812.qmail@web38414.mail.mud.yahoo.com> The most common of all the slips continues to happen to me. I don't know how long i have been doing this but now i am starting to take notic of my slip. I continually turn the light off on someone when leaving the room. I notice the most common of the slip of turning the light off is when I leave the bathroom. Every time I make this slip it makes me chuckle. - Brian __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Mon Oct 9 07:18:29 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Michelle Zur) Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 06:18:29 +0000 Subject: [Psych3120] lapses Message-ID:



Just about every morning I experience a laps of some sort, and usually end up calling home on my way to school. I'll call to make sure I unplugged the curling iron, shut my bedroom door (keeps pets out), or to make sure I had the needed conversation in order to let my family know when to expect my return. I wonder why it is that some of us experience one out of the three more than the other two (slips, lapses, and mode errors), what causes one to happen more than another? I mean, I have experienced the others on multiple occasions, however, lapses occur for me on a daily basis.


Get today's hot entertainment gossip From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Mon Oct 9 07:45:08 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Ariann Beglarian) Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2006 23:45:08 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Psych3120] Were we supposed to post? Message-ID: <20061009064508.26473.qmail@web31611.mail.mud.yahoo.com> I just realized that I wasn't sure whether or not we were supposed to post this week, considering the test was Tuesday and there was no school on Thursday...So I'm posting real quick. Just wanted to comment on the test...I may be the only one when I say I thought it was difficult. I couldn't find much about bottom-up processing...which I'm still unclear about and it was on the test! I think it has something to do with starting with unprocessed stimuli and building building toward conceptual representations...like, the features before the whole. I wasn't sure...I couldn't find much on it either. Oh well, I wonder how we all did. I also couldn't find much in my notes about the opponent process theory. Was that the color opposites, like: red/green, blue/yellow, black white...operating at ganglion cell levels? I'm still confused. Guess I'll find out how much I actually know when tuesday comes around. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Mon Oct 9 17:19:32 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Jennifer Adams) Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2006 10:19:32 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] doesn't it feel good? Message-ID: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0026_01C6EB8C.69DE8F60 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0027_01C6EB8C.69DE8F60" ------=_NextPart_001_0027_01C6EB8C.69DE8F60 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable =20 I know=97we aren=92t in the middle of any class discussions right now = and there=92s not much to post a discussion on. In light of that, doesn=92t = it feel good to be coming off a long weekend with a =93post-test=94 clean slate? = I know my break was relaxing=85 Thanks Dr. Strayer for giving a test before the break! =20 =20 ------=_NextPart_001_0027_01C6EB8C.69DE8F60 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

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Message-ID: I just read an interesting article that talked about how schizophrenia is often diagnosed when no other explanation can be offered for certain behaviors and impaired cognition. Scientists in Europe are saying that the label 'schizophrenia' is "stigmatizing and in reality has no scientific connotations" (earthtimes.org) The scientists are suggesting that doctors and psychologists tend to label many different cognitive impairments as schizophrenic, so many that there is no one single definition or set of disabilities that categorize schizophrenia. By labeling all of these different cases as schizophrenia the doctors are able to prescribe drugs, many of which are not applicable to the patient's problems. The scientists want to get rid of the term 'schizophrenia' but need to come up with a replacement word that better describes and defines the symptoms. Some have suggested using the term "dopamine dysregulation disorder" which is a more accurate and descriptive label. I think it is so cool how science and medicine keep progressing. Even terms that have been used for decades are questioned and more accurate ones are considered. Reed From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Mon Oct 9 22:10:14 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (tucker voss) Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 15:10:14 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] (no subject) Message-ID: I am not sure if we are supposed to post this week, because there is no new classroom material to base our discussion questions off of. So I guess that I am going to comment on the exam. For starters I thought that it was some what difficult, but we were given a good chance to prepare for it. I must say that the review session and a separate study group really made a difference to me. I don’t know what everyone else thought, but the multiple choice was the hardest part of the exam. As for the essay questions I think as long as you took time to answer the review questions before the test, you should have done fine… I hope. I can’t wait to see how the class as a whole did on the test. _________________________________________________________________ Add fun gadgets and colorful themes to express yourself on Windows Live Spaces http://clk.atdmt.com/MSN/go/msnnkwsp0070000001msn/direct/01/?href=http://www.get.live.com/spaces/features From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Mon Oct 9 22:26:46 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (ryan green) Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2006 14:26:46 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Psych3120] This is not cheating! Message-ID: <20061009212646.60278.qmail@web34315.mail.mud.yahoo.com> --0-664861279-1160429206=:31083 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit A yellow butterfly swoops past the left side of your head and lands on a green plant in front of you. Describe in detail how this information is processed by the visual system. Scenario 1: Initially, a yellow butterfly that swoops past the left side of my head will not be perceived as yellow at all. This is due to the fact that the butterfly¡¦s motion will first be represented in the periphery of my visual field which will project an image on the periphery of my retina where there are little to no cones. (I will discuss the cones in Scenario 2). The movement of the butterfly will be quite apparent to me because my rods, the photoreceptors that are most sensitive to night vision (black and white), and movement, are very numerous in the periphery. This information will continue from my rods through the bi-polar cells and the M-ganglion cells, which, along with the P-ganglion cells and horizontal cells, form the other layers of the retina. The information will continue to be processed down the magnocelluar pathway until it is actually identified as movement by MT. Then, after the information has been processed in the occipital lobe and the primary visual cortex, the information will be passed on to the parietal lobe. Scenario 2: As the light from the butterfly moves out of the periphery and into the fovea, the area of heightened acuity, the cones, which are the photoreceptors for color, will start to be stimulated and the color of the butterfly will be perceived.[1] The yellow color, because it has a relative medium wavelength, will stimulate one of the three kinds of cones that are responsible for yellow light. As these medium-wavelength cones are stimulated and the information travels to the next layers of the retina the color blue, due to opponent processes, will be inhibited. The information will continue down the parvocellular pathway through V4 and IT, where the color and the form of the butterfly, respectively, will be processed. The information will then pass through the occipital lobe and into the temporal lobe. Scenario 3: Light enters my eye from my left visual field. The iris dictates how much light passes through the pupil. Light passes through the cornea. The cornea focuses 80% of the light. The lens then focuses the remaining 20%. The lens also flips and inverts the image on the retina. Because the butterfly is in the left visual field, the image will be focused on the outside (toward the ear) of the right eye¡¦s retina and on the inside (toward the nose) of the left eye¡¦s retina. The photoreceptors are stimulated and begin transforming light energy into neural energy. The newly processed information passes through the other layers of the retina and through the optic disc via the optic nerve. The information in the right eye will not transfer to the left side at the optic chiasm. It will continue to the right visual cortex. The information from the left eye, however, will crossover at the optic chiasm and meet the information from the right eye in the right visual cortex. --------------------------------- [1] The green of the plant will now also start to be processed (assuming I have not attended to it until the butterfly lands on it). As I focus on the yellow butterfly and the green plant, because the fovea has only cones and no rods, the colors will be processed with very high acuity and resolution. The green of the plant, due to opponent processes, will inhibit red hues. --------------------------------- Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. Make PC-to-Phone Calls to the US (and 30+ countries) for 2¢/min or less. --0-664861279-1160429206=:31083 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
  1. A yellow butterfly swoops past the left side of your head and lands on a green plant in front of you. Describe in detail how this information is processed by the visual system.
 
Scenario 1: Initially, a yellow butterfly that swoops past the left side of my head will not be perceived as yellow at all. This is due to the fact that the butterfly¡¦s motion will first be represented in the periphery of my visual field which will project an image on the periphery of my retina where there are little to no cones. (I will discuss the cones in Scenario 2). The movement of the butterfly will be quite apparent to me because my rods, the photoreceptors that are most sensitive to night vision (black and white), and movement, are very numerous in the periphery.
 
This information will continue from my rods through the bi-polar cells and the M-ganglion cells, which, along with the P-ganglion cells and horizontal cells, form the other layers of the retina. The information will continue to be processed down the magnocelluar pathway until it is actually identified as movement by MT. Then, after the information has been processed in the occipital lobe and the primary visual cortex, the information will be passed on to the parietal lobe.
 
Scenario 2: As the light from the butterfly moves out of the periphery and into the fovea, the area of heightened acuity, the cones, which are the photoreceptors for color, will start to be stimulated and the color of the butterfly will be perceived.[1] The yellow color, because it has a relative medium wavelength, will stimulate one of the three kinds of cones that are responsible for yellow light. As these medium-wavelength cones are stimulated and the information travels to the next layers of the retina the color blue, due to opponent processes, will be inhibited. The information will continue down the parvocellular pathway through V4 and IT, where the color and the form of the butterfly, respectively, will be processed. The information will then pass through the occipital lobe and into the temporal lobe.
 
Scenario 3: Light enters my eye from my left visual field. The iris dictates how much light passes through the pupil. Light passes through the cornea. The cornea focuses 80% of the light. The lens then focuses the remaining 20%. The lens also flips and inverts the image on the retina. Because the butterfly is in the left visual field, the image will be focused on the outside (toward the ear) of the right eye¡¦s retina and on the inside (toward the nose) of the left eye¡¦s retina. The photoreceptors are stimulated and begin transforming light energy into neural energy. The newly processed information passes through the other layers of the retina and through the optic disc via the optic nerve. The information in the right eye will not transfer to the left side at the optic chiasm. It will continue to the right visual cortex. The information from the left eye, however, will crossover at the optic chiasm and meet the information from the right eye in the right visual cortex.

[1] The green of the plant will now also start to be processed (assuming I have not attended to it until the butterfly lands on it). As I focus on the yellow butterfly and the green plant, because the fovea has only cones and no rods, the colors will be processed with very high acuity and resolution. The green of the plant, due to opponent processes, will inhibit red hues.

Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. Make PC-to-Phone Calls to the US (and 30+ countries) for 2¢/min or less. --0-664861279-1160429206=:31083-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Tue Oct 10 05:25:14 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Brett Larsen) Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 21:25:14 -0700 Subject: [Psych3120] slip Message-ID: Because of the fact that we are studying memory now it has made me more concious of my mistakes and memory lapses. I am a server and a bartender and today when i went into work I was all ready to searve the thought hadnt even occured to me that i was supposed to be bartending today. Luckily someone mentioned it to me and i was able to play it off like i knew all along but if they hadnt who knows how long i would have been messing around instead of opening the bar. To tell you the truth i didnt even know what day it was. I am blaming it on too much school and work and homework, and not enough sleep. Also when i was reading the chapter today i read it had mentioned that one of the models was wrong because it didnt mention the fact that we forget things that are in our long term memory. I was wondering if anyone knew why we do loose information from our long term? Is it from decay, is it from interferance or something else? Maybe the chapter will answere me but i havnt finished it yet. _________________________________________________________________ The next generation of Search—say hello! http://imagine-windowslive.com/minisites/searchlaunch/?locale=en-us&FORM=WLMTAG From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Tue Oct 10 06:51:42 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Claudia Guarderas) Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2006 23:51:42 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] Lapses Message-ID: ------=_Part_55872_16759327.1160459502438 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline This Sunday I had the silliest lapse I've had in what seems like a very long time. I had to drive all the way to Sandy to pick up an order at Best Buy. During my almost thirty minute drive I was so focused on trying not to miss the exit and then trying to find the entrance to the store's parking lot with all the traffic, construction and deviation of roads; that by the time I actually parked and went into the store I had forgotten what I was there for. After browsing around for a minute or two the memory finally popped back into my mind, sadly it seems it quickly left again because when I went to retrieve my order I had once again forgotten the name of the item I had ordered.... ------=_Part_55872_16759327.1160459502438 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline

This Sunday I had the silliest lapse I've had in what seems like a very long time. I had to drive all the way to Sandy to pick up an order at Best Buy. During my almost thirty minute drive I was so focused on trying not to miss the exit and then trying to find the entrance to the store's parking lot with all the traffic, construction and deviation of roads; that by the time I actually parked and went into the store I had forgotten what I was there for. After browsing around for a minute or two the memory finally popped back into my mind, sadly it seems it quickly left again because when I went to retrieve my order I had once again forgotten the name of the item I had ordered....

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yes, I am posting at pretty much the last minute. although I guess it's still technically the night before class. this sooo isn't procrastination yet.
anyway, just a quick blurb about memory.
I was reading in the book about sensory memory, and how we actually perceive a large number of stimuli, but it only stays there for a second or so, and we forget. this kind of explains what I've always wondered about memory... that being that I felt like I understand and take in all the information presented to me at the time, but for the life of me I can't remember it. I thought my memory was faulty. apparently I'm not quite as handicapped as I originally believed.
at least in that area..




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>From: "Lexi Breeze" <lexibreeze@hotmail.com>
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>Subject: [Psych3120] (no subject)
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>Hey!
>So seeing as how we're going to be discussing memory in the second portion
>of the class, I guess I will say a little something about that since we
>didn't do much this last week. Memory is one thing about the mind that
>fascinates me. I think especially episodic and state dependent memory. It's
>amazing to think about actually how much the brain is capable of, and there
>are so many memories you come across in your lifetime, to be able to put
>them into so many different categories and places and breaking them down
>into every little feature is just amazing. And the processes that are all
>involved in encoding and retrieving, I am captivated by what I already know
>and I'm excited to learn more.
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>From: "jolene stehlin" <missjolenee@hotmail.com>
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>Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2006 18:45:41 -0600
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>After my last class on Wednesday, I commited a costly slip.  I ride Trax to
>school and got off at Gallivin Plaza like normal.  Once the next train
>arrived I hopped on and went back to watching videos on my ipod.  After a
>few videos I looked up to see where we were and was horrified to find that I
>was headed back up 4th South to the U, not towards Sandy.  Normally when I
>get off at Gallivin, the first train that arrives is a Sandy train.  I have
>come to expect that and don't check as often as I should to make sure that I
>am getting on the right train.  By the time I got off one train, back onto
>another, waited for the Sandy and arrived at my final destination (work), I
>was more than 30 minutes late.  Of course this was also the day that I was
>expected to be in a meeting 5 minutes after my normal start time.  Needless
>to say, I will be much more aware of what trains I board in the future.
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>From: "Becca Vrabel" <beccavrabel@hotmail.com>
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>Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 00:53:43 +0000
>Subject: [Psych3120] driving
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>I would just like to make an observation. I was just on a road trip and
>noticed practically 3 out of 5 drivers talking on their cell phones or text
>messaging while driving. I even saw a truck that pulling a boat in traffic
>whose driver was texting! People are never going to get the clue of how bad
>they are at driving when they are on the phone. And what about truckers
>talking on the phone when they are driving a semi!!!
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>Date: Sun,  8 Oct 2006 22:31:56 -0400 (EDT)
>Subject: [Psych3120] Color Vision
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>  For fall break I have been lucky enough to be able to come back to New York to visit my sister. I came back with my cousin who has never been here before and one this that she really wanted to do was go to the Museum of Modern Art (or MoMA). I have already been to the MoMA on a visit and wasn't all that excited, but went with her anyways. It was amazing to walk through all of these famous peoples art work and recognize it. But even more fascinating to me were some of the illusions that they are able to create. There was a flag on the wall that was the pertained to the Opponent Theory, and I was able to show my cousin how if you stare at it long enough and then look at the blank white wall next to it how the lasting impression would be the actual American flag. While walking through the museum I noticed I seemed to have a greater appreciation for those crazy rods and cones I have in my eyes then the first time I walked through. And seeing all of these things right after that
>last test let it all be fresh in my mind. So rock on to color vision and the illusions that art can play with it.-Paige Baucom
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>  <table cellpadding=3 cellspacing=0 border=0 width=100% bgcolor=white><tr valign=top><td width=100%><font size=2 color=black>For fall break I have been lucky enough to be able to come back to New York to visit my sister. I came back with my cousin who has never been here before and one this that she really wanted to do was go to the Museum of Modern Art (or MoMA). I have already been to the MoMA on a visit and wasn't all that excited, but went with her anyways. It was amazing to walk through all of these famous peoples art work and recognize it. But even more fascinating to me were some of the illusions that they are able to create. There was a flag on the wall that was the pertained to the Opponent Theory, and I was able to show my cousin how if you stare at it long enough and then look at the blank white wall next to it how the lasting impression would be the actual American flag. While walking through the museum I noticed I seemed to have a greater appreciation for those
>crazy rods and cones I have in my eyes then the first time I walked through. And seeing all of these things right after that last test let it all be fresh in my mind. So rock on to color vision and the illusions that art can play with it.<br>-Paige Baucom<BR><BR><BR><BR><br></font></td></tr></table><p><hr><font size=2 face=verdana><span style='font-weight:bold'>No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding.</span><br>Make My Way  your home on the Web - <a href=http://www.myway.com target=_blank>http://www.myway.com</a></font></b>
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>From: "JESSE SITTERUD" <sitterud01@hotmail.com>
>To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu
>Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2006 21:25:42 -0600
>Subject: [Psych3120] Memory
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>I have always noticed that every person has different ways of studying for
>exams.  Everyone has there own preferred way of taking in and storing
>information. It makes me wonder if ones way of studying is better of more
>efficient than that of my own.  Personally I like to use visual and audio
>sources of sensory input.  As I read my notes and the book I do so out loud.
>   This way I am not only taking in info visually but getting it through the
>auditory system.  I find this to be a very powerful combo when it comes to
>taking in and storing information.  But I would like to try other peoples
>methods of studying and stroring information.
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>Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2006 20:35:55 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Kasey lundgren <klundgr@yahoo.com>
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>Subject: [Psych3120] modes posting
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>Since we didn't really have class this week i thought i would talk about different events
>   in my everyday life that occur because of slips, lapses and mode errors. For instance
>   the other day i was on my way to my grandmas house, which happens to be the
>   direct route to my work. On the way there i was caught up thinking about other things
>    that i drove right past my grandmas house i drove the extra five minutes to my work.
>   The sad thing is that i didn't realize what i had done until i was parked in front of my
>   work and then realized i wasn't supposed to be there. WOW i'm smart. OK even
>   though he used this as an example there are probably three or four times a month that
>   i take a shower and cannot remember if i washed my hair or my body. I have actually
>    shaved one leg and completly forgot about the other one. I realized when i was all
>   dried off, so i had to crawl back in the shower and shave the other one. This would be
>   considered a slip...a pretty ridiculous one in fact ;-)! The only real mode error i can
>   think of that i have commited is when i ride with someone else somewhere i
>   sometimes forget that i didn't drive and pull out my keys and start looking for
>   my car until my friend or family member asks me what in the heck i am doing and i
>   realize my mistake. It's pretty crazy how many of these i do on a monthly bases.
>
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><div>Since we didn't really have class this week i thought i would talk about different events&nbsp;</div>  <div>in my everyday life that occur because of slips, lapses and mode errors. For instance</div>  <div>the other day i was on my way to my grandmas house, which happens to be the </div>  <div>direct route to my work. On the way there i was caught up thinking about other things</div>  <div>&nbsp;that i drove right past my grandmas house i drove the extra five minutes to my work. </div>  <div>The sad thing is that i didn't realize what i had done until i was parked in front of my </div>  <div>work and then realized i wasn't supposed to be there. WOW i'm smart. OK even </div>  <div>though he used this as an example there are probably three or four times a month that</div>  <div>i take a shower and cannot remember if i washed my hair or my body. I have actually</div>  <div>&nbsp;shaved one leg and completly forgot about the other one. I realized when i was all </div>
>  <div>dried off, so i had to crawl back in the shower and shave the other one. This would be</div>  <div>considered a slip...a pretty ridiculous one in fact ;-)! The only real mode error i can </div>  <div>think of that i have commited is when i ride with someone else somewhere i </div>  <div>sometimes forget that i didn't drive and pull out my keys and start looking for</div>  <div>my car until my friend or family member asks me what in the heck i am doing and i</div>  <div>realize my mistake. It's pretty crazy how many of these i do on a monthly bases.</div><p>
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>From: "Jacob Hansen" <basta129@hotmail.com>
>To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu
>Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2006 22:11:12 -0600
>Subject: [Psych3120] remarks about the exam
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><html><div style='background-color:'><P><BR>boy am i glad that this exam is over, and i work way too much. the day we took the test was not a good day for me. to make matters worse i was late to class and felt very rushed.&nbsp; i know there were several times throughout the exam that i my mind went completly blank.&nbsp; i know that i by feeling rushed i was not able to articulate what was needed to properly respond to the questions, though i studied at great length once i was out of my comfort zone and felt some anxiety i cracked.&nbsp; i know that the information that i studied was still in my brain but why could i not access it.&nbsp; how does anxiety effect ones ability to recall information.&nbsp; so i will be very interested to see how i score on the exam.&nbsp; if i do not do as well as i had hoped i know that there is always another exam.<BR></P><BR><BR><BR>
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>From: "hailey Woodside" <hailey841@hotmail.com>
>To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu
>Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2006 22:28:06 -0600
>Subject: [Psych3120] modes post
>Reply-To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu
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><html><div style='background-color:'><P>I read the chapter about memory at work the other night. It is really amazing to think how much information we can store in the different types of memory we have...especially our long term memory. I was wondering if it is possible for our memory to just run out of room...or if we just get to the point where we have tons of information stored in our memory but not all of it is accesible to us....like, do we really have memories from when we were little little kids in our brain, but we just can't access them? I think the next couple weeks of class should be really interesting. </P>
><P>Hailey<BR><BR><BR></P>
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>Message: 9
>Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2006 22:02:01 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Sabreena Khan <sabreena.khan@yahoo.com>
>To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu
>Subject: [Psych3120] real-life illusions. honest!
>Reply-To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu
>
>i, recently, landed this super cool job with an ad
>agency. (hooray for me!)
>anyhow, we shot a commercial this last week and during
>the setting up of the "rooms", we couldn't figure out
>what was going wrong. something just didn't look
>right. the "room" was made up of two walls and the
>shot was taken slightly off the direct diagonal. since
>the camera was not moving at all, this created a
>stable, singular, and very limited perspective. there
>were paintings that were hanging on the walls in our
>room, and even though they were perfectly aligned in
>"real life", they were horribly mismatched in the
>monitor. in order to correct this illusion, we were
>forced to hang one of the paintings about 4 or 5
>inches below the other one!
>this just sort of reminded me of the parthenon
>illusion..even though something looks impressive,
>there was a lot of jimmy-ing around to make it LOOK
>that way..
>sabreena khan
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>Message: 10
>Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2006 22:22:40 -0700 (PDT)
>From: brian Thomas <brianthomas32@yahoo.com>
>To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu
>Subject: [Psych3120] modes
>Reply-To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu
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>The most common of all the slips continues to happen
>to me.  I don't know how long i have been doing this
>but now i am starting to take notic of my slip.  I
>continually turn the light off on someone when leaving
>the room.  I notice the most common of the slip of
>turning the light off is when I leave the bathroom.
>Every time I make this slip it makes me chuckle.
>
>- Brian
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>Message: 11
>From: "Michelle Zur" <zur_girl@hotmail.com>
>To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu
>Subject: RE: [Psych3120] lapses
>Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 06:18:29 +0000
>Reply-To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu
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>Message: 12
>Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2006 23:45:08 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Ariann Beglarian <ari_beglari_05@yahoo.com>
>To: discussion forum <psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu>
>Subject: [Psych3120] Were we supposed to post?
>Reply-To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu
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>I just realized that I wasn't sure whether or not we
>were supposed to post this week, considering the test
>was Tuesday and there was no school on Thursday...So
>I'm posting real quick.  Just wanted to comment on the
>test...I may be the only one when I say I thought it
>was difficult.  I couldn't find much about bottom-up
>processing...which I'm still unclear about and it was
>on the test! I think it has something to do with
>starting with unprocessed stimuli and building
>building toward conceptual representations...like, the
>features before the whole.  I wasn't sure...I couldn't
>find much on it either.  Oh well, I wonder how we all
>did.  I also couldn't find much in my notes about the
>opponent process theory.  Was that the color
>opposites, like: red/green, blue/yellow, black
>white...operating at ganglion cell levels?  I'm still
>confused. Guess I'll find out how much I actually know
>when tuesday comes around.
>
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>Message: 13
>From: "Jennifer Adams" <jenadams88@msn.com>
>To: "psych3120 " <psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu>
>Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2006 10:19:32 -0600
>Subject: [Psych3120] doesn't it feel good?
>Reply-To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu
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From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Tue Oct 10 08:08:56 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Dan Laxman) Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 07:08:56 +0000 Subject: [Psych3120] Dual-coding theory--How to improve your memory. Message-ID: Dual-coding theory--How to improve your memory. I was reading in a introductory psychology text book about encoding (getting information into memory) and came across the dual-coding theory which "holds that memory is enhanced by forming semantic and visual codes, since either can lead to recall." Since we will be talking about memory in the next few lectures, I wanted to discuss this theory. I think we all understand how we store memory via semantic codes, but sometimes we have difficulty with visualizing information. If we can visualize information then we can store it in our memory via both semantic and visual codes which allows us to remember it better. The problem is that it is difficult to visualize abstract concepts, such as the concepts and theories we need to know for this class. However, I came across an old book years ago that taught me how to take abstract concepts and turn them into visual images thereby enhancing recall. The book is called The Memory Book by Harry Lorayne and Jerry Lucas (the former would perform memorizing and repeating back the name of each person in the audience even though he only heard it once; the latter was a star basket ball player that graudated summa cum laude with only half the studying his roommates did). Anyway, I won't explain all of the details of how they do these things (you'll have to read the book) since I don't have space here, but the basic idea is that you take the word and find something it sounds like. For example, we know the hippocampus has an important role in memory formation. It would be difficult to associate those two by route memory. However, we can create a visual image of this idea to help us: hippocampus sounds like hippo campus. So, to remember that hippocampus is related to memory formation, I picture in my mind a hippo on campus walking in the classroom, sitting down, and trying to memorize. If I wanted to, I could get more specific with the image to represent more details about the process. The key though is that you MUST visualize it. This may seem a silly way to learn and memorize, but I can promise you it works! I've used it in many, many classes including this one. You don't even have to remember the image--after awhile that will disappear, but the fact that you thought about it and paid attention to the connection (basically forced deep-processing), will automatically make it easier to recall the information. Anyway, if you want to learn more, the Marriott Library has a copy and you can get it on Amazon. By the way, just in case this sounds too much like a sales pitch, I don't get any royalties or anything from the sale of the book--it has just helped me a lot in school. -Dan Laxman From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Tue Oct 10 19:23:03 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Kyle Murdock) Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 12:23:03 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] Memory In-Reply-To: <200610101803.k9AI34GD006970@topo.csbs.utah.edu> Message-ID:


As I am currently studying for the GRE's I am learning a lot about my memory. Currently I am trying to memorize the definition of every word out there. One problem that I have been running in to practicing for the GRE is that they will put words that have some sort of connection, but you have to choose the best one. For instance if the word you need is octane, they will put fuel, fire, or something that has to due with what the avg. person knows about octane. Consistently I will choose the one that first pops into my head as the right answer (which I have been told is always the best). The problem is that I have been tricked and in order to get the right one I have to look for the best relationship. In summation I feel that it is really wrong for the testing company to try and trick people into the right answer. After all eyewitness testimonies are often faulty, so if our memory is faulty the tricky relationships will obviously hurt our score. Sorry if that was confusing, but I just had to vent about the GRE's. Thanks,

Kyle Murdock

From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Tue Oct 10 19:33:23 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Kevin Mangum) Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 11:33:23 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Psych3120] "Chunks" Message-ID: <20061010183323.41246.qmail@web52610.mail.yahoo.com> --0-223127326-1160505203=:40695 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Today in class we dicussed chunks and i found out some cool info about chunks. span is around seven for digits, around six for letters, and around 5 for words. working memory can hold about 7 +/- 2 chunks of information. --------------------------------- Get your email and more, right on the new Yahoo.com --0-223127326-1160505203=:40695 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Today in class we dicussed chunks and i found out some cool info about chunks. span is around seven for digits, around six for letters, and around 5 for words. working memory can hold about 7 +/- 2 chunks of information.

Get your email and more, right on the new Yahoo.com --0-223127326-1160505203=:40695-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Tue Oct 10 21:15:20 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Benjamin Divine) Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 13:15:20 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Psych3120] Dreams from Memories?? Message-ID: <20061010201520.16299.qmail@web42101.mail.mud.yahoo.com> --0-767955072-1160511320=:15386 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit As we begin a new section on memory and retrieval processing, I wonder more and more exactly how complicated and sophisticated our minds can be. Today we briefly discussed the functions of The Multi-Store Model of memory but mainly focused on the sensory memory portion of it. It makes sense to me that everything we do (consciously or unconsciously) is processed by our memory system and then forgotten or sent as a short or long term possessions depending on how much attention we give to each experienced stimuli. However, it is very difficult for me to understand that there possibly is no limit to our long-term memory's storing capacity, as Dr. Strayer explained. There must be millions of tiny memory banks located in various parts of our minds. These may not all be accessible when one wants to retrieve a specific memory or recall, but in my opinion, the more one have stored in your long-term memory the more intelligent one may seem to others. To know a lot one must have a lot of previous knowledge to refer to which may be mainly due to long-term memory retrieval. Maybe I will work on my LT memory skills for the next exam! :) --------------------------------- Stay in the know. Pulse on the new Yahoo.com. Check it out. --0-767955072-1160511320=:15386 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit As we begin a new section on memory and retrieval processing, I wonder more and more exactly how complicated and sophisticated our minds can be.  Today we briefly discussed the functions of The Multi-Store Model of memory but mainly focused on the sensory memory portion of it.  It makes sense to me that everything we do (consciously or unconsciously) is processed by our memory system and then forgotten or sent as a short or long term possessions depending on how much attention we give to each experienced stimuli.  However, it is very difficult for me to understand that there possibly is no limit to our long-term memory's storing capacity, as Dr. Strayer explained.  There must be millions of tiny memory banks located in various parts of our minds.  These may not all be accessible when one wants to retrieve a specific memory or recall, but in my opinion, the more one have stored in your long-term memory the more intelligent one may seem to others.  To know a lot one must have a lot of previous knowledge to refer to which may be mainly due to long-term memory retrieval.  Maybe I will work on my LT memory skills for the next exam! :)

Stay in the know. Pulse on the new Yahoo.com. Check it out. --0-767955072-1160511320=:15386-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Tue Oct 10 21:18:23 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Benjamin Divine) Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 13:18:23 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Psych3120] Dreams and Memories??? Message-ID: <20061010201823.39419.qmail@web42110.mail.mud.yahoo.com> --0-690888145-1160511503=:38767 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit As we begin a new section on memory and retrieval processing, I wonder more and more exactly how complicated and sophisticated our minds can be. Today we briefly discussed the functions of The Multi-Store Model of memory but mainly focused on the sensory memory portion of it. It makes sense to me that everything we do (consciously or unconsciously) is processed by our memory system and then forgotten or sent as a short or long term possessions depending on how much attention we give to each experienced stimuli. However, it is very difficult for me to understand that there possibly is no limit to our long-term memory's storing capacity, as Dr. Strayer explained. There must be millions of tiny memory banks located in various parts of our minds. These may not all be accessible when one wants to retrieve a specific memory or recall, but in my opinion, the more one have stored in your long-term memory the more intelligent one may seem to others. To know a lot one must have a lot of previous knowledge to refer to which may be mainly due to long-term memory retrieval. Maybe I will work on my LT memory skills for the next exam! :) Does having more memories influence how sophisticated and dramatic one's dreams may be?? Just a thought... --------------------------------- How low will we go? Check out Yahoo! Messenger’s low PC-to-Phone call rates. --0-690888145-1160511503=:38767 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit As we begin a new section on memory and retrieval processing, I wonder more and more exactly how complicated and sophisticated our minds can be.  Today we briefly discussed the functions of The Multi-Store Model of memory but mainly focused on the sensory memory portion of it.  It makes sense to me that everything we do (consciously or unconsciously) is processed by our memory system and then forgotten or sent as a short or long term possessions depending on how much attention we give to each experienced stimuli.  However, it is very difficult for me to understand that there possibly is no limit to our long-term memory's storing capacity, as Dr. Strayer explained.  There must be millions of tiny memory banks located in various parts of our minds.  These may not all be accessible when one wants to retrieve a specific memory or recall, but in my opinion, the more one have stored in your long-term memory the more intelligent one may seem to others.  To know a lot one must have a lot of previous knowledge to refer to which may be mainly due to long-term memory retrieval.  Maybe I will work on my LT memory skills for the next exam! :)  Does having more memories influence how sophisticated and dramatic one's dreams may be?? Just a thought...

How low will we go? Check out Yahoo! Messenger’s low PC-to-Phone call rates. --0-690888145-1160511503=:38767-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Tue Oct 10 22:48:38 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (laura cervantes) Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 15:48:38 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] weekly posting Message-ID: this posting is about the exam. I just thought the exam was a bit difficult primarily because there's so much content in class that its hard to narrow it down for the exam, i would also have liked less short answer questions because they are so open to interpretation, that's just my take on it Laura C-Brunello _________________________________________________________________ The next generation of Search—say hello! http://imagine-windowslive.com/minisites/searchlaunch/?locale=en-us&FORM=WLMTAG From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Wed Oct 11 03:15:58 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Emily Slager) Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 20:15:58 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] Message for the board #6 Message-ID: <759c1ffd0610101915j58fd0304n563cce4dca76eaa@mail.gmail.com> ------=_Part_11269_12255866.1160532958007 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Hello! I plan each meal at our house, and write out a menu for me and my husband each week. And I shop for every dinner. So I was REALLY surprised that I couldn't remember our dinners for the past week! I think that dinners just get "written over" by new meals. I mean, even if one dinner is really good, there is absolutely no reason to remember it after that night. The new info just "decays". Also, another thing I learned today: that short term memory is ONLY what is in my conscious, and is thus "working". I am really anxious to see what kinds of things are in my long term memory. Probably all these keys on the keyboard, rules for driving, talking/writing, my routes for how to get to my classes. But which of these things will I have forever and which will be forgotten when "interference" happens. Probably, the paths to all my classes will be forgotten after Christmas break. Lastly, I want to know how much evolution plays into our memories. Do I easily forget things that are not important to my survival, but never forget things like language that I need to survive? 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I am looking forward to the lectures that will be discussed during this section of the psych course. Alan Richmond __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Wed Oct 11 20:49:54 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Katie) Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 13:49:54 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] Quick look back at facial processing Message-ID: <4E9A09E16264024C80C968D5CFCCB7AB017FAF@xeoni.digitalbreakdown.com> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C6ED6E.6C398132 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I've included the text from an article I just read about a study on = processing in regards to facial attractiveness. I thought it was really = interesting, and it got me thinking and asking some questions about what = we find attractive. The premise of many previous studies was that = prototypical faces (those with average features) are rated as most = attractive. This study wanted to find out why we seem to find these = "average" faces more attractive than those with more unusual or = interesting features. The researchers experiemented and found that = prototypical faces may be more easy to process, and there may be a = relationship between our attraction to something and the ease at which = we process the information we are seeing. When the information we are = seeing is "normal" we are able to respond and categorize what we see = faster and we are then more likely to respond pleasureably to it. I = recall reading other studies about symmetrical faces being the most = attractive and this would fall into that idea as well, because the more = symetrical something is, the easier it is to process. This made me think = about how we have such different ideas of beauty in different cultures. = Are the prototypical features of one culture most attractive to people = of their own culture, or are these cross cultural? Also I wondered about = whether people who are faster at processing are more likely to find = unique things or people attractive than those people who process more = slowly. Katie Johnson =20 =20 =20 In the late 1870s, scientist and eugenicist Sir Francis Galton developed = an image of the prototypical "face of crime" by creating composite = photos of men convicted of serious offenses. Though Galton failed to = discover anything abnormal in his composite criminal faces, he did find = that the resulting visages were shockingly handsome. Studies have since = established that people find prototypical faces-those with average = features-to be attractive.=20 A paper published in the September issue of the journal Psychological = Science proposes a new explanation for this phenomenon: Prototypical = faces are pleasing because they're easy for the brain to process."There = is always this question in psychology or in experimental aesthetics: Is = there some sort of psychological principle that can explain a lot of = what people find attractive, not only in terms of faces or people, but = things in general?" said Piotr Winkielman, a psychologist at the = University of California, San Diego and the study's lead author. "This = idea of ease-of-processing seems like a good candidate."To test this = hypothesis, Winkielman and his team created a geometric pattern. They = then made random variations in the prototype and showed the resulting = patterns to subjects, who were asked to assign them to certain visual = categories. The researchers also measured the subjects' subtle facial = responses to determine whether they were responding positively or = negatively to each pattern.=20 The researchers found that the response was more positive to patterns = that were close to the prototypical pattern. Furthermore, the more = similar a pattern was to the prototype, the more quickly subjects could = categorize it. Such speed indicates that patterns close to the prototype = were easier for subjects to process, Winkielman said. When the = researchers controlled for these differences in processing time, the = correlation between attractiveness and similarity to the prototype = disappeared, suggesting that processing ease itself can in fact cause = objects to be attractive."The principle finding is that you like a = pattern to the extent that you classify the pattern fast," Winkielman = said. The authors challenge the popular idea from evolutionary psychology that = people find prototypical faces attractive because average features = indicate good health.One psychologist specializing in faces said he is = skeptical that data from responses to computer patterns can be applied = directly to questions of facial attractiveness."Not using faces limits = conclusions that can be made about face preferences, particularly given = that humans are proposed to possess specialized face processing = mechanisms," said the researcher, who responded under condition of = anonymity, via email.The researcher also said that the authors' = conclusions, even if they are accurate, do not necessarily conflict with = an evolutionary explanation for the beauty-in-averageness effect. "The evolutionary argument, as I see it, hasn't proposed a mechanism but = a selection pressure-averagness of faces is related to actual health, = for example, and choosing healthy partners is important," he wrote. "If = we choose healthy partners because our visual system picks them out due = to perceptual fluency, then we may still have an evolved mechanism to = prefer averageness." Winkielman acknowledges that averageness does not fully account for = human attractiveness-after all, sexually coded features such as lips = often follow the maxim "bigger is better." But, he notes that his = easier-is-better theory may extend beyond attractiveness. "When I talk on the phone, it's very easy to explain this idea of = connection between ease and liking, because when people cannot hear me = well, or they think my explanation is confusing, people get somewhat = irritated," he said. "So it's very easy to understand how complexity of = processing is connected to our emotional responses." ------_=_NextPart_001_01C6ED6E.6C398132 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable =0A= =0A= =0A= =0A=
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I've included the text from an article I just read about a study on = processing in regards to facial attractiveness. I thought it was = really interesting, and it got me thinking and asking some questions = about what we find attractive. The premise of many previous studies was = that prototypical faces (those with average features) are rated as most = attractive. This study wanted to find out why we seem to find these = "average" faces more attractive than those with more unusual or = interesting features. The researchers experiemented and found that = prototypical faces may be more easy to process, and there may be a = relationship between our attraction to something and the ease at which = we process the information we are seeing. When the information = we are seeing is "normal" we are able to respond and categorize what we = see faster and we are then more likely to respond pleasureably to = it. I recall reading other studies about symmetrical faces being the = most attractive and this would fall into that idea as well, because the = more symetrical something is, the easier it is to process. This = made me think about how we have such different ideas of beauty in = different cultures. Are the prototypical features of one = culture most attractive to people of their own culture, or are = these cross cultural? Also I wondered about whether people who are = faster at processing are more likely to find unique things or = people attractive than those people who process more slowly.

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In the late 1870s, scientist and eugenicist Sir Francis Galton = developed an image of the prototypical "face of crime" by creating = composite photos of men convicted of serious offenses. Though Galton = failed to discover anything abnormal in his composite criminal faces, he = did find that the resulting visages were shockingly handsome. Studies = have since established that people find prototypical faces—those = with average features—to be attractive.

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A paper published in the September issue of the journal = Psychological Science proposes a new explanation for this = phenomenon: Prototypical faces are pleasing because they're easy for the = brain to process."There is always this question in psychology or in = experimental aesthetics: Is there some sort of psychological principle = that can explain a lot of what people find attractive, not only in terms = of faces or people, but things in general?" said Piotr Winkielman, a = psychologist at the University of California, San Diego and the study's = lead author. "This idea of ease-of-processing seems like a good = candidate."To test this hypothesis, Winkielman and his team created a = geometric pattern. They then made random variations in the prototype and = showed the resulting patterns to subjects, who were asked to assign them = to certain visual categories. The researchers also measured the = subjects' subtle facial responses to determine whether they were = responding positively or negatively to each pattern.

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The researchers found that the response was more positive to patterns = that were close to the prototypical pattern. Furthermore, the more = similar a pattern was to the prototype, the more quickly subjects could = categorize it. Such speed indicates that patterns close to the prototype = were easier for subjects to process, Winkielman said. When the = researchers controlled for these differences in processing time, the = correlation between attractiveness and similarity to the prototype = disappeared, suggesting that processing ease itself can in fact cause = objects to be attractive."The principle finding is that you like a = pattern to the extent that you classify the pattern fast," Winkielman = said.

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The authors challenge the popular idea from evolutionary psychology = that people find prototypical faces attractive because average features = indicate good health.One psychologist specializing in faces said he is = skeptical that data from responses to computer patterns can be applied = directly to questions of facial attractiveness."Not using faces limits = conclusions that can be made about face preferences, particularly given = that humans are proposed to possess specialized face processing = mechanisms," said the researcher, who responded under condition of = anonymity, via email.The researcher also said that the authors' = conclusions, even if they are accurate, do not necessarily conflict with = an evolutionary explanation for the beauty-in-averageness effect.

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"The evolutionary argument, as I see it, hasn't proposed a mechanism = but a selection pressure—averagness of faces is related to actual = health, for example, and choosing healthy partners is important," he = wrote. "If we choose healthy partners because our visual system picks = them out due to perceptual fluency, then we may still have an evolved = mechanism to prefer averageness."

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Winkielman acknowledges that averageness does not fully account for = human attractiveness—after all, sexually coded features such as = lips often follow the maxim "bigger is better." But, he notes that his = easier-is-better theory may extend beyond attractiveness.

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"When I talk on the phone, it's very easy to explain this idea of = connection between ease and liking, because when people cannot hear me = well, or they think my explanation is confusing, people get somewhat = irritated," he said. "So it's very easy to understand how complexity of = processing is connected to our emotional = responses."

------_=_NextPart_001_01C6ED6E.6C398132-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Fri Oct 13 02:11:29 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (alan richmond) Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 18:11:29 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Psych3120] memory tricks Message-ID: <20061013011129.81292.qmail@web50306.mail.yahoo.com> Hi all, Dr. Strayer showed us a good example with the game burn the witch of why chunking works better for memory storage rather than trying to repeat the information over and over in order to memorize it. When I was going through elementary school the way we learned how to store information was to repeat it over and over. It wasn't until I got into college and took psych 1010 and the instructor showed us with a demonstartion on memorizing several words in a list and then repeating them back that I found out about chunking. The list was comprised of about 16 words there were about 4 categories that the words would fall under for example there were 4 different colors such as red, blue, green, and yellow then another 4 words that were metals such as copper, gold, silver, and nickle. any way you get the point. While I was trying to memorize each word individually there were some students who knew about chunking and were able to memorize the entire list within a few moments of time while I was still trying to get the list memorized. Dr. Strayer also pointed out how much easier it is to organize lots of information for retrieval by using acronyms. I started using this while I was in the military and have since found it to be helpful when preparing for tests. I still have some difficulty with memorization but I have found that practicing helps me to become better. Alan Richmond __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Fri Oct 13 07:35:03 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Paul Rudd) Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 23:35:03 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Psych3120] Memory for dummies In-Reply-To: <200610111809.k9BI9OM0021048@topo.csbs.utah.edu> Message-ID: <20061013063503.93941.qmail@web34815.mail.mud.yahoo.com> The last few classes have been very interesting. They have helped me to remember what every teacher since third grade has drilled into me. For example, don't just read a spelling word over and over in your head until your sure it will stick. Because it never does! Create a unique and even bizarre mental picture to go along with the word. But sure enough every time I try to memorize something, the first thing I do is say it over and over to myself. It's fascinating to me how memory seems so intangible yet it has been studied and researched to death. Memory has captured humans interests for decades and will probably continue to do so for many more. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Fri Oct 13 17:26:29 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Becca Vrabel) Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 16:26:29 +0000 Subject: [Psych3120] state dependent memory Message-ID: I think that it is really interesting to look at how influential our 'state' is when we learn something and try to perform the same task. I can use the example of playing pool while drunk. It seems that afiter a few drinks, I can play pool a whole lot better than I do when I am sober. Since I learned to play pool while I was drinking, my performance at it is much better when I am in the same state. Another example that I can think of is that I study for tests in the evening after I have eaten dinner. My performance on the test in the mornings is much better if I am not hungry. If I eat a good breakfast, I put my body in the same state as when I was studying the information and therefore perform better. =) _________________________________________________________________ All-in-one security and maintenance for your PC.  Get a free 90-day trial! http://clk.atdmt.com/MSN/go/msnnkwlo0050000001msn/direct/01/?href=http://www.windowsonecare.com/?sc_cid=msn_hotmail From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Sat Oct 14 02:03:46 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Ariann Beglarian) Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 18:03:46 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Psych3120] memory Message-ID: <20061014010346.30072.qmail@web31605.mail.mud.yahoo.com> According to the recent lecture, simple review or rehearsal is not a great way to remember things. However, i have been told that rehearsal creates real, physical pathways in the brain. I was shown a photo of the brain of a chimp who had been forced to stare at a wheel for a certain amount of time. When they took out the brain and examined it, there was a physical impression of the wheel imprinted onto the brain itself. I mean, you could see the photograph literally printed onto the brain tissue. So that shows that rehearsal, or simply going over something time and time again, does actually create a real, physical change in the brain, leaving a memory pathway. I believe mnemonic devices help also, but I remember better on, tests for example, if I just read the notes over and over again. Sometimes mneumonic devices are helpful with long lists and things like that, but I learn best through repetition. See you all next week! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Sat Oct 14 06:28:42 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Ryan Boldrin) Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 22:28:42 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Psych3120] Working Memory Message-ID: <20061014052842.64495.qmail@web53612.mail.yahoo.com> I have notice that when it comes to exams, If I have two in the same day, About half way through the second exam, My short term or working memory will start to fatigue. It becomes more difficult to 'Hold' the question in working memory while searching for the answer. I would read the question, and then scout for the answer and the question would recede from consciousness. I wonder if as the fatigue increases the new data loaded in to working memory is displaced faster. Would that be because the neurotransmitters are spent and now need to be recharged, or the capacity has decreased? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Sat Oct 14 18:46:17 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Chad C Moffitt) Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 11:46:17 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] eyewitness testimony Message-ID: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C6EFB8.A689F2C6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Is eyewitness testimony reliable? Can leading questions alter our = memory? Some research psycologists have found that our memories can be = vulnerable to suggestion, and we have learned in class that memory can = decay over time. Further, what we originally perceive may be influenced = by the amount of stress we are under, by weather conditions and light, = and our own selective attention. Thus, memory bias and perception = influences can affect an eyewitness's allegations. In 1975, a Salt Lake = City defense attorney working in the Ted Bundy cases used an expert = eyewitness psychologist to show how misleading memory can be. A = surviving kidnapping victim's accusation of Ted -- the only eyewitness = in the case it would turn out, was proven to contain conflicting = statements and revealved how stress, the interviewing officers' own = biases, behavior, and suggestions, and general memory decay interfered = with her memory. Although her testimony had serious flaws, this only = shows the limits of memory, with does not necessarily reflect true = reality. Luckily there was enough other evidence to convict Ted Bundy = in this case.=20 ------_=_NextPart_001_01C6EFB8.A689F2C6 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable =0A= =0A= =0A= =0A=
Is eyewitness testimony = reliable?  Can leading questions alter our memory?  Some = research psycologists have found that our memories can be vulnerable to = suggestion, and we have learned in class that memory can decay over = time.  Further, what we originally perceive may be influenced by = the amount of stress we are under, by weather conditions and light, and = our own selective attention.  Thus, memory bias and perception = influences can affect an eyewitness's allegations.  In 1975, a Salt = Lake City defense attorney working in the Ted Bundy cases used an expert = eyewitness psychologist to show how misleading memory can be.  A = surviving kidnapping victim's accusation of Ted -- the only = eyewitness in the case it would turn out, was proven = to contain conflicting statements and revealved how stress, the = interviewing officers' own biases, behavior, and suggestions, and = general memory decay interfered with her memory.  Although her = testimony had serious flaws, this only shows the limits of memory, = with does not necessarily reflect true reality.  Luckily there was = enough other evidence to convict Ted Bundy in this = case. 
------_=_NextPart_001_01C6EFB8.A689F2C6-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Sun Oct 15 06:11:36 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Brett Larsen) Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 22:11:36 -0700 Subject: [Psych3120] Memory Message-ID: I really dont know how true this is but last week at work i was told that if you drink a lot of water before a test it has shown to help your preformance. I have not read anything about this myself but i think it makes sense. The brain is mostly water anyway, so it seems like it would be true that if you were well hydrated your brain should work better. I wonder if anyone has herd the same thing? I tried this before the last test and it seemed to help but i really dont know for sure. It seemed my mind was clearer and i was able to recall things easier. But i really dont know if it is all just a bunch of bull. Brett larsen _________________________________________________________________ Share your special moments by uploading 500 photos per month to Windows Live Spaces http://clk.atdmt.com/MSN/go/msnnkwsp0070000001msn/direct/01/?href=http://www.get.live.com/spaces/features From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Sun Oct 15 07:16:30 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Brett Larsen) Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 23:16:30 -0700 Subject: [Psych3120] styles Of learning Message-ID: I have heard many times that different people learn things better in different ways. Some people learn things best by listening some learn best by wathching thing and learning visually, and some learn best by doing things or manual learners. I have for a long time believed that i am a very manual learner, i cannot for instance watch my math teacher solve a problem and then be able to do it my self, i usually need someone to walk me through it step by step while i do it myself and then i will be albe to remember the concepts much better. what i am wonder is how many people learn best in this same way. Am i in the minority that needs this special help? Do many people remember the lectures in our class best just by listening? I have heard that the more ways you learn something the more likely you are to remember it? Is this true, it makes sense, but how much of a differnece does it make? If so shouldnt we be using the most possible ways to teach something in all of our classes. I think that Dr. strayer does a very good job at this with all his examples and such, but if this is such a profound finding then why dont all teachers use this technique. I know i could benifit a lot if teachers in some of my other classes did more than just lecture. _________________________________________________________________ The next generation of Search—say hello! http://imagine-windowslive.com/minisites/searchlaunch/?locale=en-us&FORM=WLMTAG From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Sun Oct 15 21:37:08 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (JESSE SITTERUD) Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 14:37:08 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] Chunk reading Message-ID: I've heard about people reading not by sentence to sentence, but by reading a chunk or section as a whole. I often wondered how accurate this is, and if so how would this reading strategy be learned? I know that there is chunking used with memory and storage of info, but can the mind read info as a chunk? I really am going to research if reading a chunk or like a paragraph as a whole instead if reading it sentence by sentence is possible. If so I would really like to attempt to learn this technique to see how effective it can be. _________________________________________________________________ Be seen and heard with Windows Live Messenger and Microsoft LifeCams http://clk.atdmt.com/MSN/go/msnnkwme0020000001msn/direct/01/?href=http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/digitalcommunication/default.mspx?locale=en-us&source=hmtagline From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Sun Oct 15 21:58:57 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (jolene stehlin) Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 14:58:57 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] (no subject) Message-ID: In lecture on Thursday I really enjoyed learning about short-term memory. I was particularly interested in the idea that when we remember something, we don't just remember the "facts" we also take into account other things about the setting that will help us recall information later. It was fascinating to learn why you are told to re-trace your steps when you lose something, it's because you can always remember better in the same context. I wonder if this whole idea of remembering things when you're in the same context has anything to do with experiencing deja vu. My work is very repetative, but sometimes I get the feeling that I have had the same exact conversation, with the same person, in the same exact position before. It happens to me fairly frequently and I hope that we talk about it in class. _________________________________________________________________ Add fun gadgets and colorful themes to express yourself on Windows Live Spaces http://clk.atdmt.com/MSN/go/msnnkwsp0070000001msn/direct/01/?href=http://www.get.live.com/spaces/features From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Sun Oct 15 23:11:18 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Lexi Breeze) Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 16:11:18 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] (no subject) Message-ID: Hey! So I thought I would just put another idea out there on the types of information that go into long term memory. I had a professor at another university that believed that the experiences you have are largely what decides what types of information go into long term memory. He taught us that the experiences you have in life and how important they are to you determine things that go into long term memory, and that new things that go into long term memory go there because they are connected in some way to your previous experiences. Something about them will trigger your current memory and the new thing will be put into the same place/category that the previous memory goes into, since it is linked to it in whatever way. Just a thought, I think this idea has a very good point. _________________________________________________________________ Try the new Live Search today! http://imagine-windowslive.com/minisites/searchlaunch/?locale=en-us&FORM=WLMTAG From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Sun Oct 15 23:56:14 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Jake Andreason) Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 16:56:14 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] (no subject) Message-ID: One thing that I always have been curious about is how fast you lost information after you memorize it. For me even after you spend a week studying for a big test that information seams to be gone within another week after finishing that test. The concept of studying techniques was really interesting to hear about on thursdays lecture. For the most part I usually study by using rehersal methods to just grind it into my brain before the test and I guess I never realized that the information is just kind of replaced by new informtion. I've also heard it's much better to use some sort of association when studying material to help you develope easier recalls. I think I need to be better at developing associations to make it a little easier to study. From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Mon Oct 16 02:53:20 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (William Gordon) Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 19:53:20 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] More memory thoughts In-Reply-To: <200610151803.k9FI2Xt6014889@topo.csbs.utah.edu> Message-ID: I’ve often wondered about why some memories seem to fade, and why some memories stay as vivid as yesterday’s memories. Dr. Strayer said that no one has ever filled up memory to capacity. But how would anyone know? Maybe old memories get recorded over. Some you keep forever, true. Some people might remember specific things about their childhood until they die, with or without retrieval cues. But if someone forgets something, how would they ever know they forgot it? It’s lost. But maybe instead of getting lost, it gets recorded over. I don’t know. Just a thought. Either way, I know I always forget things when I need to remember them, and I’m always thinking of things that deserve no thought when I need to be thinking of something else. Funny how the mind works. William G. >From: psych3120-request@lists.csbs.utah.edu >Reply-To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu >To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu >Subject: Psych3120 digest, Vol 1 #940 - 2 msgs >Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 12:02:33 -0600 (MDT) > >Send Psych3120 mailing list submissions to > psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu > >To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/listinfo.cgi/psych3120 >or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > psych3120-request@lists.csbs.utah.edu > >You can reach the person managing the list at > psych3120-admin@lists.csbs.utah.edu > >When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific >than "Re: Contents of Psych3120 digest..." > > >Today's Topics: > > 1. Memory (Brett Larsen) > 2. styles Of learning (Brett Larsen) > >--__--__-- > >Message: 1 >From: "Brett Larsen" >To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu >Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 22:11:36 -0700 >Subject: [Psych3120] Memory >Reply-To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu > >I really dont know how true this is but last week at work i was told that >if >you drink a lot of water before a test it has shown to help your >preformance. I have not read anything about this myself but i think it >makes >sense. The brain is mostly water anyway, so it seems like it would be true >that if you were well hydrated your brain should work better. I wonder if >anyone has herd the same thing? I tried this before the last test and it >seemed to help but i really dont know for sure. It seemed my mind was >clearer and i was able to recall things easier. But i really dont know if >it >is all just a bunch of bull. >Brett larsen > >_________________________________________________________________ >Share your special moments by uploading 500 photos per month to Windows >Live >Spaces >http://clk.atdmt.com/MSN/go/msnnkwsp0070000001msn/direct/01/?href=http://www.get.live.com/spaces/features > > >--__--__-- > >Message: 2 >From: "Brett Larsen" >To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu >Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 23:16:30 -0700 >Subject: [Psych3120] styles Of learning >Reply-To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu > >I have heard many times that different people learn things better in >different ways. Some people learn things best by listening some learn best >by wathching thing and learning visually, and some learn best by doing >things or manual learners. I have for a long time believed that i am a very >manual learner, i cannot for instance watch my math teacher solve a problem >and then be able to do it my self, i usually need someone to walk me >through >it step by step while i do it myself and then i will be albe to remember >the >concepts much better. what i am wonder is how many people learn best in >this >same way. Am i in the minority that needs this special help? Do many people >remember the lectures in our class best just by listening? I have heard >that >the more ways you learn something the more likely you are to remember it? >Is >this true, it makes sense, but how much of a differnece does it make? If so >shouldnt we be using the most possible ways to teach something in all of >our >classes. I think that Dr. strayer does a very good job at this with all his >examples and such, but if this is such a profound finding then why dont all >teachers use this technique. I know i could benifit a lot if teachers in >some of my other classes did more than just lecture. > >_________________________________________________________________ >The next generation of Search—say hello! >http://imagine-windowslive.com/minisites/searchlaunch/?locale=en-us&FORM=WLMTAG > > > >--__--__-- > >_______________________________________________ >Psych3120 mailing list >Psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu >http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/listinfo.cgi/psych3120 > > >End of Psych3120 Digest _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself - download free Windows Live Messenger themes! http://clk.atdmt.com/MSN/go/msnnkwme0020000001msn/direct/01/?href=http://imagine-msn.com/themes/vibe/default.aspx?locale=en-us&source=hmtagline From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Mon Oct 16 03:41:11 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (hailey Woodside) Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 20:41:11 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] short term memory Message-ID:

I found thursday's lecture on decay vs. interferance really interesting. I  thought that we lost information kept in our short term memory more from decay over time rather than other factors interfering. But now that I think about it I can remember instances where I lost short term memory information both fromd ecay and interference. For instance...when you are trying to remember a phone number and someone next to you starts talking, or you dial the number and forget it a few seconds later.




 

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From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Mon Oct 16 04:22:21 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Tom Stephenson) Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 20:22:21 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Psych3120] memory Message-ID: <20061016032221.24177.qmail@web51504.mail.yahoo.com> --0-1861133477-1160968941=:22843 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I heard a memory system CD a few years back that told listeners writing something down gives reason to forget it. According to the CD if you wright something down you are teaching yourself that you have no need to remember. Your memory gets fat and lazy basically. I only have so much space in my sensory and working memory, so if I don't wright it down, rehearse it, or find some association for it with in a few seconds it is gone forever. --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Get on board. You're invited to try the new Yahoo! Mail. --0-1861133477-1160968941=:22843 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I heard a memory system CD a few years back that told listeners writing something down gives reason to forget it.  According to the CD if you wright something down you are teaching yourself that you have no need to remember.   Your memory gets fat and lazy basically.
I only have so much space in my sensory and working memory, so if I don't wright it down, rehearse it, or find some association for it with in a few seconds it is gone forever.

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Get on board. You're invited to try the new Yahoo! Mail. --0-1861133477-1160968941=:22843-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Mon Oct 16 04:39:44 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Alisha Christiasnen) Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 20:39:44 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Psych3120] Memory Message-ID: <20061016033944.74210.qmail@web56601.mail.re3.yahoo.com> --0-305125949-1160969984=:72430 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I never realized just how much goes into your memory and how you are able t= o retain or lose things. That unless we do something, such as rehearsal, to= remember something the "quick snap picture" that is in our sensory registe= r will be lost. I also didn't know how quickly things are lost in the short= term memory store. That information decays in fifteen to twenty seconds un= less we encode this information into the long term memory store. I thought = it was interesting that our long term memory storage has such a large capac= ity and yet it can be so hard sometimes to retrieve a bit of information fo= r the task we are trying to do.=0A=0A --0-305125949-1160969984=:72430 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
I never realized just how much goes into your memory a= nd how you are able to retain or lose things. That unless we do something, = such as rehearsal, to remember something the "quick snap picture" that= is in our sensory register will be lost. I also didn't know how quickly th= ings are lost in the short term memory store. That information decays in fi= fteen to twenty seconds unless we encode this information into the long ter= m memory store. I thought it was interesting that our long term memory stor= age has such a large capacity and yet it can be so hard sometimes to retrie= ve a bit of information for the task we are trying to do.

<= /body> --0-305125949-1160969984=:72430-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Mon Oct 16 05:12:14 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu) Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 21:12:14 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Psych3120] memory Message-ID: <20061016041214.49857.qmail@web56512.mail.re3.yahoo.com> --0-308138470-1160971934=:46283 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sometimes, like this last week, when I am busy I start to forget things. I'll travel through my day knowing full well where I am supposed to be and at what time but I won't remember what I did while I was there. For example I'll look at my notes after class and not even remember talking about any of the things I wrote down. Or I'll take a test then when I get it back I'll read through it and wonder how I passed because I sure don't have a clue what the the answers are now. Or I'll go to work and been very busy all day but won't remember doing much of anything. I'd like to know how all this happens. We talked about coding and short term memory in class.. is it possible that my brain was just to busy at the time to encode anything I was doing. How do I still do my job and not know how I did it?? Just thinking out loud now. Debra Hanger --------------------------------- Get your own web address for just $1.99/1st yr. We'll help. Yahoo! Small Business. --0-308138470-1160971934=:46283 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Sometimes, like this last week, when I am busy I start to forget things.  I'll travel through my day knowing full well where I am supposed to be and at what time but I won't remember what I did while I was there.  For example I'll look at my notes after class and not even remember talking about any of the things I wrote down.  Or I'll take a test then when I get it back I'll read through it and wonder how I passed because I sure don't have a clue what the the answers are now.  Or I'll go to work and been very busy all day but won't remember doing much of anything.  I'd like to know how all this happens.  We talked about coding and short term memory in class.. is it possible that my brain was just to busy at the time to encode anything I was doing.  How do I still do my job and not know how I did it??  Just thinking out loud now.
Debra Hanger

Get your own web address for just $1.99/1st yr. We'll help. Yahoo! Small Business. --0-308138470-1160971934=:46283-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Mon Oct 16 05:55:43 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Natalie Mitchell) Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 22:55:43 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] retention Message-ID:
All this talk about memory makes me wonder to extent to which memory is linked with intelligence. For example, me and my friend, Harrison used to go to a bar that had trivia night, and by God he knew the answer to every question. Now, I had an idea what the answer might be, knowing that I had come across the information at some point in my life, but the information had not been effectively stored, and appeared to be simply lost. I cannot tell you how many times I go over the same information yet can't seem to remember the exact details over the long term. Sure it may be there for the test, but I few years down the road it is no where to be found (which is a shame because I have lost a lot of useful information.) For example, most of us are psychology majors, yet can you recite all of Erickson's eight (I think) stages of development. I can name a few, but I should be able to remember them all, being that I have been exposed to this information several times. I imagine memory retention plays a large role in intelligence, and those who have more effective strategies of processing information have greater academic successl. For now I will keep attempting the piece all the information together!
From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Mon Oct 16 06:05:42 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Kim Endersen) Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 22:05:42 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Psych3120] I Remember that Hair Message-ID: <20061016050542.46888.qmail@web35312.mail.mud.yahoo.com> --0-1100461666-1160975142=:44781 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Ladies, I'm sure we've all spent lalot of money on shampoos, conditioners, and haircuts, not to mention all the time we spend washing and styling our hair in the morning. And I'm sure that our fathers, brothers, and significant others have teased us about it. Well it turns out our hair might make us more memorable. Apparently it is easier for us to recognize someone by the features on the upper half of their faces (eyes, nose) than their lower features (mouth, chin). Hair (on the top of our heads) seems to aid in recognition more than any other facial feature. Just think about how many celebrities are known for their hair: Donald Trump, Elvis, Jessica Simpson. So ladies, the next time you get grief for spending so much time, money, and effort on your hair, remember that you're not just looking good, you're making memories. For more information, see www.exploratorium.edu/memory/index.html and select "If You're Going to Rob a Bank...." Cheers! --------------------------------- How low will we go? Check out Yahoo! Messenger’s low PC-to-Phone call rates. --0-1100461666-1160975142=:44781 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Ladies, I'm sure we've all spent lalot of money on shampoos, conditioners, and haircuts, not to mention all the time we spend washing and styling our hair in the morning.   And I'm sure that our fathers, brothers, and significant others have teased us about it.  Well it turns out our hair might make us more memorable.  Apparently it is easier for us to recognize someone by the features on the upper half of their faces (eyes, nose) than their lower features (mouth, chin).  Hair (on the top of our heads) seems to aid in recognition more than any other facial feature.  Just think about how many celebrities are known for their hair: Donald Trump, Elvis, Jessica Simpson.  So ladies, the next time you get grief for spending so much time, money, and effort on your hair, remember that you're not just looking good, you're making memories.  For more information, see www.exploratorium.edu/memory/index.html and select "If You're Going to Rob a Bank...." 
Cheers!

How low will we go? Check out Yahoo! Messenger’s low PC-to-Phone call rates. --0-1100461666-1160975142=:44781-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Mon Oct 16 06:28:21 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Kasey lundgren) Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 22:28:21 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Psych3120] modes posting Message-ID: <20061016052821.84177.qmail@web33011.mail.mud.yahoo.com> --0-2010928041-1160976501=:17882 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit It's crazy how much you take for granted everyday. there are so many things I wish i could remember so many things that if i would have just taken a couple mintues to relish i could have kept them in my memory forever. Short term memory kind of sucks that way. You lose so much of what you experience because your just not paying enough attention or rehearsing it enough to remember. why is it that i could experience something a thousand time over the course of a long period of time but still not have a vivid memory of what is was like . It's like it's just gone from me. I also wonder why it is that you can study for a test and remember everything for a long period of time and once it's over it is gone.......it's like you take all the time to make it long term but it really stays alternated and gets lost when your done with it. I think it is your brains way of dealing with situation ( short and long term memory) i think there are thing that are better off being forgetten and things that are easier if you brain just doesn't remember what they feel like........like having babies......i know it kills but for some reason you never really remember the pain.......i guess if you did there would be a lot less little rascalls runnin around. --------------------------------- All-new Yahoo! Mail - Fire up a more powerful email and get things done faster. --0-2010928041-1160976501=:17882 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
It's crazy how much you take for granted everyday. there are so many things I wish
i could remember so many things that if i would have just taken a couple mintues to
relish i could have kept them in my memory forever. Short term memory kind of sucks
that way. You lose so much of what you experience because your just not paying
enough attention or rehearsing it enough to remember. why is it that i could experience something a thousand time over the course of  a long period of time but
still not have a vivid memory of what is was like . It's like it's just gone from me.
I also wonder why it is that you can study for a test and remember everything for
a long period of time and once it's over it is gone.......it's like you take all the time
to make it long term but it really stays alternated and gets lost when your done with
it. I think it is your brains way of dealing with situation ( short and long term memory)
i think there are thing that are better off being forgetten and things that are easier if
you brain just doesn't remember what they feel like........like having babies......i know
it kills but for some reason you never really remember the pain.......i guess if you
did there would be a lot less little rascalls runnin around.

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I thought the 'witch burning' portion of the lecture was a really interesting demonstration of number sequencing. After he pointed this out I have realized just how often I utilize this strategy to remember every day things, when searching through data bases for specific information and also entering in data in the same scenario because it enables me to use shortcuts. It helps to realize this because I can use it more strategically and efficiently.


Use your PC to make calls at very low rates From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Mon Oct 16 07:34:46 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Reed Dow) Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 00:34:46 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] memory and computers Message-ID:

Human memory is amazing and, while we haven't really talked about long term memory yet, it is so cool that there is no limit on it's storage capacity. I wonder how similar computer memory and human memory are. I've heard that human memory is an analog process, compared to the digital process of computers, but I'm not really sure what that means. It's fascinating to think that we are already beginning to implant computer chips into the brain. They help blind people see, and help immoble people control computers.  I wonder if in like 50 years if computers and humans will merge! That would be something. I bet we could develop chips that would assist short term memory; allowing a person to remember like 30 items and increase the time from 2 seconds to 10.

From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Mon Oct 16 16:36:30 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu) Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 10:36:30 -0500 Subject: [Psych3120] Memory (Romney Stevens) Message-ID: <20061016103630.0kfr9gu94goscoc4@wm.integrity.com> It's interesting to me that memory can be categorized into three distinct and clear-cut systems. Not only is this a helpful way of thinking of memory, but it has been proven through studies to be true. This is interesting to me because throughout my life I always just thought that memory was one big system that was all the same. It is interesting to find out that is not the case, but that there are actually three different systems of memory. From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Mon Oct 16 21:52:28 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Paige) Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 16:52:28 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [Psych3120] Memory Message-ID: <20061016205228.CEEA3676A0@mprdmxin.myway.com> --MYWAYBOUNDARY_000__2dbf1165608957aa3d77f8697187a348 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I find memory a very interesting subject. I constantly find that I can remember the craziest things. For instance, I can remember what I've had for dinner every night in the past two weeks. However, I find it very hard to remember certain things I've heard or read. When Dr. Strayer mentioned that we relate memories to how we were feeling when we learned them, I thought back on how true that is. One of the reasons I can remember what I had for dinner a week ago is because I can remember what I felt like and I either got what I wanted to eat, or I didn't. Also, when it comes to remembering certain information, to call it back from long term memory starts with how I was feeling when I learned that information. It is crazy how complex our minds are.Paige Baucom _______________________________________________ No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding. Make My Way your home on the Web - http://www.myway.com --MYWAYBOUNDARY_000__2dbf1165608957aa3d77f8697187a348 Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
I find memory a very interesting subject. I constantly find that I can remember the craziest things. For instance, I can remember what I've had for dinner every night in the past two weeks. However, I find it very hard to remember certain things I've heard or read. When Dr. Strayer mentioned that we relate memories to how we were feeling when we learned them, I thought back on how true that is. One of the reasons I can remember what I had for dinner a week ago is because I can remember what I felt like and I either got what I wanted to eat, or I didn't. Also, when it comes to remembering certain information, to call it back from long term memory starts with how I was feeling when I learned that information. It is crazy how complex our minds are.
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Make My Way your home on the Web - http://www.myway.com --MYWAYBOUNDARY_000__2dbf1165608957aa3d77f8697187a348-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Mon Oct 16 23:58:05 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (tucker voss) Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 16:58:05 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] (no subject) Message-ID: I have always been terrible at remembering people’s names and I have never been able to explain why. Now, after the lecture on memory, I know that part of the reason I can’t remember names very well is because I am usually meeting a lot of people at once. So because our short term memory has a limited capacity of 7 + or – 2, it is understandable why I can’t remember names when meeting a lot of people. Also information decays after 15-20 seconds so when I meet people I am usually doing something so I don’t have time to rehearse names in my head, and thus being I tend to loose the name within 15-20 seconds. _________________________________________________________________ Try the next generation of search with Windows Live Search today! http://imagine-windowslive.com/minisites/searchlaunch/?locale=en-us&source=hmtagline From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Tue Oct 17 00:06:21 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Dan Laxman) Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 23:06:21 +0000 Subject: [Psych3120] Working memory: an extremely valuable resource In-Reply-To: <200610161802.k9GI22oS028143@topo.csbs.utah.edu> Message-ID: As I was looking over the notes, I stopped for a second to reflect on how important and valuable working-memory is for us. Working memory is what allows us to integrate, compare, contrast, and analyze ideas from long-term memory as well as process that information along with the information currently coming from sensory memory. Its amazing that we can keep several ideas in our short-term memory at the same time. If this were not the case, then we would not be able to solve problems or really progress with out the new ideas that can be generated in working memory--and think about how much life has improved over the past one hundred years alone because of new ideas and the ability to hold several ideas in your short-term memory at the same time allowing you to solve problems! Working memory is also advantageous because, although it is temporary, we can keep information in it for an indefinite amount of time provided we constantly pay attention to the information. This is also helpful in solving problems and even in generating and comparing new ideas. Perhaps these reasons are why some suggest that we measure working memory capacity as an indication of intelligence. -Dan Laxman From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Tue Oct 17 00:17:49 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Sabreena Khan) Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 16:17:49 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Psych3120] attention and memory Message-ID: <20061016231749.58372.qmail@web55410.mail.re4.yahoo.com> two things. one. when it comes to memory store, we first deal with sensory information. if you're not paying attention to it, then it goes away; that is, it does not go into short term memory store. so..when we were talking about attention and inattentional blindness, would the gorilla have been a bit of sensory information? i mean, if we are staring at the scene, then the image of the gorilla falls on the retina, right? but, if we don't know that the gorilla is there, then it is impossible to transfer this to short term memory store..is this all right? two. just a comment on my personal memory store. i remember, as a child, my sister asked me if i remembered our grandfather coming out to california to visit us. i recalled the event. i could have sworn that he came. i even remembered going to disneyland! of course, that remains to be the butt of so many jokes because my grandfather never came to california to visit. i was dooped by my own memory. sabreena __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? 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Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Tue Oct 17 00:17:51 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Sabreena Khan) Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 16:17:51 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Psych3120] attention and memory Message-ID: <20061016231751.75350.qmail@web55406.mail.re4.yahoo.com> two things. one. when it comes to memory store, we first deal with sensory information. if you're not paying attention to it, then it goes away; that is, it does not go into short term memory store. so..when we were talking about attention and inattentional blindness, would the gorilla have been a bit of sensory information? i mean, if we are staring at the scene, then the image of the gorilla falls on the retina, right? but, if we don't know that the gorilla is there, then it is impossible to transfer this to short term memory store..is this all right? two. just a comment on my personal memory store. i remember, as a child, my sister asked me if i remembered our grandfather coming out to california to visit us. i recalled the event. i could have sworn that he came. i even remembered going to disneyland! of course, that remains to be the butt of so many jokes because my grandfather never came to california to visit. i was dooped by my own memory. sabreena __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Tue Oct 17 01:43:29 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Darin Mano) Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 18:43:29 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] Memory Message-ID: <3b4d82fa0610161743uec6f0fer348f48b18cec8b70@mail.gmail.com> Last week was a really interesting week. I really liked the lessons on memory and the different types of memory. I remember from introdctory psych that I thought that the sensory memory was really interesting. You traditionally think of memory as consisting of short and long term memory. That is not actually true. It is now clear that memory has three types and that short and long term memory aren't actually correct terms. It seems like there has been a lot of research on memory. But, I am interested in how memory lapses occur. I wonder is there is a difference in the way other people store and use their memory. I also wonder if there is another way that we can learn about memory and how exactly it works. For example, I wonder if there is research that could be done on alzheimers and other diseases that would give us more information about the way memory works. -- Darin M. Mano From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Tue Oct 17 08:16:54 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Aubrey Wilkinson) Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 01:16:54 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] beating a dead horse In-Reply-To: <200610161802.k9GI22oS028143@topo.csbs.utah.edu> Message-ID:

since we're all taking the opportunity to discuss memory to death.. I thought I'd join in. I, too, think it is interesting that repetition does not facilitate remembering things like chunking or acronyms do. for example: when they kicked pluto out of the solar system, I was rather distraught. I'd always learned the planets by an acronym throughout my elementary and beyond school career. now, it's "my very energetic mother just served us nine..." that's it. no pizzas. now we all get to starve to death and watch pluto orbit with the comets.. wishing it would start a pizza delivery service so we could remember what planet we were on.

From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Tue Oct 17 17:01:20 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Kevin Mangum) Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 09:01:20 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Psych3120] working Memory Message-ID: <20061017160120.59233.qmail@web52615.mail.yahoo.com> --0-629639936-1161100880=:57882 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable =0A The central executive acts as supervisory system and controls the flow = of information from and to its slave-systems. They are: phonological loop a= nd the visuo-spatial sketch-pad.=0A=0A They found this out by using experim= ental findings with dual-task paradigms. They said "Performance of two simu= ltaneous tasks requiring the use of two separate perceptual domains (i.e. a= visual and a verbal task) is nearly as efficient as performance of the tas= ks individually. In contrast, when a person tries to carry out two tasks si= multaneously that use the same perceptual domain, performance is less effic= ient than when performing the tasks individually."=0ATry coming up with som= e tasks that tap into their findings, and test it on someone. =0A=0A=0A=0A= =0A --0-629639936-1161100880=:57882 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

 The central executive acts as = supervisory system and controls the flow of information from and to its sla= ve-systems. They are: phonological loop and the visuo-spatial sketch-pad.

They found this out by using experimental= findings with dual-task paradigms. They said "Performance of two simultane= ous tasks requiring the use of two separate perceptual domains (i.e. a visu= al and a verbal task) is nearly as efficient as performance of the tasks individually. In contrast, when a pe= rson tries to carry out two tasks simultaneously that use the same perceptu= al domain, performance is less efficient than when performing the tasks ind= ividually."

Try coming up with some tasks tha= t tap into their findings, and test it on someone.


--0-629639936-1161100880=:57882-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Tue Oct 17 20:43:07 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (laura cervantes) Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 13:43:07 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] memory Message-ID: I thought todays class was very interesting, when I thought of cognitive psychology this is exactly what i was thinking. I guess we know now how to leave a memorable impression on someone. I was particularly surprised by how we remember emotional information. One of the most memorable events has been 9/11, I thought I was pretty sure about where i was and every little detail on it but come to think of it, i might not be so correct after all, that was definatly interesting. Laura Brunello _________________________________________________________________ Get today's hot entertainment gossip http://movies.msn.com/movies/hotgossip?icid=T002MSN03A07001 From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Tue Oct 17 22:22:14 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Benjamin Divine) Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 14:22:14 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Psych3120] Physical Match of Encoding Message-ID: <20061017212214.16986.qmail@web42108.mail.mud.yahoo.com> --0-1166517906-1161120134=:15557 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In class today we discussed a few of Tulving's experiments regarding episodic memory and state dependent learning. I found it intriguing that memory recall for a specific set of words for participants under water was easier/more accurate for those who originally learned the words under water. It seems to me that, in this case, water would have a negative impact on memory retrieval despite the conditions or environment participants were first given the words in. I guess what I'm trying to say is that humans do not usually exercise memory capacities under water. This experiment has great meaning and real proof for me as far as specific environmental cues or conditions affecting memory. One example of my own took place after a chemistry exam I took. I received a good score and specifically remember sitting in the same desk during the actual exam that I had sat in during our study session the previous day. The next test we took I sat in a different desk than the one I studied in and received a worse score on the test. This may have been due to state dependent learning or my actual study efforts for each test...I like to attribute the bad test score to the environment in which the test was taken; clearly not my fault. :) --------------------------------- Get your email and more, right on the new Yahoo.com --0-1166517906-1161120134=:15557 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
In class today we discussed a few of Tulving's experiments regarding episodic memory and state dependent learning.  I found it intriguing that memory recall for a specific set of words for participants under water was easier/more accurate for those who originally learned the words under water.  It seems to me that, in this case, water would have a negative impact on memory retrieval despite the conditions or environment participants were first given the words in.  I guess what I'm trying to say is that humans do not usually exercise memory capacities under water.  This experiment has great meaning and real proof for me as far as specific environmental cues or conditions affecting memory.  One example of my own took place after a chemistry exam I took.  I received a good score and specifically remember sitting in the same desk during the actual exam that I had sat in during our study session the previous day.  The next test we took I sat in a different desk than the one I studied in and received a worse score on the test.  This may have been due to state dependent learning or my actual study efforts for each test...I like to attribute the bad test score to the environment in which the test was taken; clearly not my fault.  :)

Get your email and more, right on the new Yahoo.com --0-1166517906-1161120134=:15557-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Tue Oct 17 23:51:11 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Emily Slager) Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 16:51:11 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] Message for the board #7 Message-ID: <759c1ffd0610171551s7c7bec06p66b11a3dac585463@mail.gmail.com> ------=_Part_9740_19953897.1161125471542 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline The professor who gave our lecture today was really good! he kept my interest the whole time. So did the material. The 7 deadly sins of Memory made a lot of sense. I had never heard all 7 of them listed out, so this was helpful. I had never heard of the pop called TAB (I just moved to Utah from the East coast), but I will surely remember all those "sins". I especially gained from how they can be counteracted. To counteract transience, I keep a journal of all the hikes and trips that my husband and I go on. This way, we will remember if the trail was easy or hard. What kinds of wildlife we saw, and how long it took us to do the hike, or other details. People just assume that they will remember those details, but like the professor today said, they all blend together after awhile and one hike is indistinguishable from the other. The other 6 deadly sins were ones I commit almost everyday. I am excited to go into depth with them this week! Emily ------=_Part_9740_19953897.1161125471542 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: inline VGhlIHByb2Zlc3NvciB3aG8gZ2F2ZSBvdXIgbGVjdHVyZSB0b2RheSB3YXMgcmVhbGx5IGdvb2Qh Jm5ic3A7IGhlIGtlcHQgbXkgaW50ZXJlc3QgdGhlIHdob2xlIHRpbWUuJm5ic3A7IFNvIGRpZCB0 aGUgbWF0ZXJpYWwuJm5ic3A7IFRoZSA3IGRlYWRseSBzaW5zIG9mIE1lbW9yeSBtYWRlIGEgbG90 IG9mIHNlbnNlLiZuYnNwOyBJIGhhZCBuZXZlciBoZWFyZCBhbGwgNyBvZiB0aGVtIGxpc3RlZCBv dXQsIHNvIHRoaXMgd2FzIGhlbHBmdWwuJm5ic3A7IEkgaGFkIG5ldmVyIGhlYXJkIG9mIHRoZSBw b3AgY2FsbGVkIFRBQiAoSSBqdXN0IG1vdmVkIHRvIFV0YWggZnJvbSB0aGUgRWFzdCBjb2FzdCks IGJ1dCBJIHdpbGwgc3VyZWx5IHJlbWVtYmVyIGFsbCB0aG9zZSAmcXVvdDtzaW5zJnF1b3Q7LiZu YnNwOyBJIGVzcGVjaWFsbHkgZ2FpbmVkIGZyb20gaG93IHRoZXkgY2FuIGJlIGNvdW50ZXJhY3Rl ZC4mbmJzcDsgVG8gY291bnRlcmFjdCB0cmFuc2llbmNlLCBJIGtlZXAgYSBqb3VybmFsIG9mIGFs bCB0aGUgaGlrZXMgYW5kIHRyaXBzIHRoYXQgbXkgaHVzYmFuZCBhbmQgSSBnbyBvbi4mbmJzcDsg VGhpcyB3YXksIHdlIHdpbGwgcmVtZW1iZXIgaWYgdGhlIHRyYWlsIHdhcyBlYXN5IG9yIGhhcmQu Jm5ic3A7IFdoYXQga2luZHMgb2Ygd2lsZGxpZmUgd2Ugc2F3LCBhbmQgaG93IGxvbmcgaXQgdG9v ayB1cyB0byBkbyB0aGUgaGlrZSwgb3Igb3RoZXIgZGV0YWlscy4gUGVvcGxlIGp1c3QgYXNzdW1l IHRoYXQgdGhleSB3aWxsIHJlbWVtYmVyIHRob3NlIGRldGFpbHMsIGJ1dCBsaWtlIHRoZSBwcm9m ZXNzb3IgdG9kYXkgc2FpZCwgdGhleSBhbGwgYmxlbmQgdG9nZXRoZXIgYWZ0ZXIgYXdoaWxlIGFu ZCBvbmUgaGlrZSBpcyBpbmRpc3Rpbmd1aXNoYWJsZSBmcm9tIHRoZSBvdGhlci4mbmJzcDsgVGhl IG90aGVyIDYgZGVhZGx5IHNpbnMgd2VyZSBvbmVzIEkgY29tbWl0IGFsbW9zdCBldmVyeWRheS4m bmJzcDsgSSBhbSBleGNpdGVkIHRvIGdvIGludG8gZGVwdGggd2l0aCB0aGVtIHRoaXMgd2VlayEK PGJyPiZuYnNwOyZuYnNwOyZuYnNwOyZuYnNwOyZuYnNwOyZuYnNwOyZuYnNwOyZuYnNwOyZuYnNw OyZuYnNwOyZuYnNwOyZuYnNwOyBFbWlseTxicj4K ------=_Part_9740_19953897.1161125471542-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Wed Oct 18 04:56:54 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Natalie Mitchell) Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 21:56:54 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] memory all alone in the moon light... Message-ID:
Today in class Joel Copper talked about depth and processing and emotion, and showed how emotion is highly correlated with recall and vividness of memory. This got me thinking about all the memories that have stuck with me throughout the years. I think we all have the sort of memories that make us wonder, "Why do I remember this so well," or "Why does this memory continue to creep into my thoughts?" For example, one of the only memories I have of when I was really young, is of eating corn on the cob in my parents bedroom, on a hot summer day, listening to the air cooler. When reflecting on other strange memories, I can better understand their emotional quality, but many still seem just as trivial. For example, I have this memory of when I first got my drivers license and a car of my friends was following behind me. When we reached our destination I was teased about riding my brakes the entire time down the canyon. At times, this experience seriously still pops into my head when driving the canyon! These are the types of moments that have become seared into our memory, and have obviously effected us emotionally, yet appear to be completely erroneous and even stange. It begs question, "What makes this memory different from all the rest?" 
From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Thu Oct 19 05:40:36 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Ariann Beglarian) Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 21:40:36 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Psych3120] my memory sucks anyway... Message-ID: <20061019044036.54523.qmail@web31602.mail.mud.yahoo.com> I think this last lecture was based on concepts I instinctively knew already, but never really thought about it. I've noticed that once someone brings to my attention the possibility of my memory being incorrect, I start to realize that I'm not actually positive whether or not my memory is indeed correct. For instance, I've had friends present while telling a story about a past experience, and these friends were actually there, and occasionally they will state that they don't remember it that way, and they will tell the same story differently, adding in things I don't remember. Then we both get thinking really hard and conclude that we actually don't remember. I remember 9/11, and I can bring to memory an image of me in my PJ's, eating ravioli's for breakfast and watching the morning news. The only thing about this memory that I am positive about, is the ravioli's I was eating. I'm not really sure if I was wearing PJ's or if I actually had been watching the news when they interrupted to show footage of the twin towers. Its strange to think back, really hard, and come to decide that I'm not actually sure when I thought I was absolutely positive. My memory is bad enough as it is...this kinda sucks. I wonder how off or incorrect our memories really are. I've been an eyewitness for a crime before, and we didn't go to court until about 9 months later. I still remembered the criminal, especially after seeing his face again, but the details of the crime were alittle sketchy. I remember the crime itself, but I'm not quite sure about the order of events surrounding the crime. Not anymore, anyway. Well, see you guys tomarrow! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Thu Oct 19 06:29:41 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Jennifer Adams) Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 23:29:41 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] Nice Job Dr. Strayer Message-ID: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_000D_01C6F30D.4970EE20 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_000E_01C6F30D.49735F20" ------=_NextPart_001_000E_01C6F30D.49735F20 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable =20 I just wanted to toot his horn for him=85.Dr. Strayer presented this = week at the Human Factors Convention in San Francisco. He did a fantastic job! = His work on cell phones and driving is actually very well known. We had a headhunter from Toyota (from Michigan) talking to our group while we = were there. He said he=92s irritated when he reads about it in National = Magazines! Dr. Strayer must be doing his job then! =20 Jennifer Adams Clear & SIMPLE, Inc. Jennifer@clearsimple.com =20 =20 ------=_NextPart_001_000E_01C6F30D.49735F20 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

I just wanted to toot his horn for = him….Dr. Strayer presented this week at the Human Factors Convention in San Francisco. He did a fantastic = job! His work on cell phones and driving is actually very well known. We had a = headhunter from Toyota (from Michigan) talking to our group = while we were there. He said he’s irritated when he reads about it in National Magazines! Dr. Strayer must be doing his job = then!

 

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I have always thought that my memory of a few = emotionally high events in my life were very vivid and I could remember = all the little details about where I was, what I was doing, or any other = details -- when I really got to thinking about these events, I really = CAN'T remember the specifics of that day or week depending on the event! = I can't wait to hear more about emotional memory. -Kari Johnson-Williams ------_=_NextPart_001_01C6F346.DFD6D75A Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable =0A= =0A= =0A= =0A=
I found Tuesday's class = very interesting-- our memory is such an interesting process. I have = always thought that my memory of a few emotionally high events in my = life were very vivid and I could remember all the little details about = where I was, what I was doing, or any other details -- when I really got = to thinking about these events, I really CAN'T remember the specifics of = that day or week depending on the event! I can't wait to hear more about = emotional memory.
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Watching the video of the guy that had damage to his hippocampus was amazing to me. I'm actually suprised that he is not angry all of the time. I know that if I was constantly confused I would probably be uncontrollably angry. I feel really bad for him and his wife. They will never have a normal life again, and it sounded like they truly loved each other.

The way that he desrcibed that he was experiencing everything for the first time was unreal. Thinking that every two minutes you have just become aware of your surroundings, and everything you had done in your past was unconcious is just plain unimaginable. It just shows me how important every single part of your brain is to everyday functioning. It is something that most of us take for granted, but it can be taken away from us so quickly. I hope that I never have to experience that situation. Thanks,

Kyle Murdock


Get FREE company branded e-mail accounts and business Web site from Microsoft Office Live From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Fri Oct 20 01:20:27 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Keith Radley) Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 18:20:27 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] Memory Message-ID: --_713ced75-17be-44db-87b3-713e09fb72a0_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable When I took Intro to Psych, we talked about state dependent learning, and e= ver since then, it has been something I've thought about many times. Our t= eacher gave us some study tips, like that we should study in an environment= similar to the one that we will be taking the test in-sitting at a desk, w= ithout distractions such as music or television. Since then, I've always tr= ied to study this way. To be honest, I'm not sure if my test scores have i= mproved since then, but I have been more focused while I was studying. Som= ewhat unrelated to memory, but related to test taking and cognitive skills,= awhile ago, I bought a cd called Mozart for the mind. It claimed that res= earchers had done a study and listening to Mozart before an IQ test increas= ed test-takers' scores. Has anyone else heard of this or have any insight?= Now I make it a habit to listen to Mozart before every test I take. Does= it help? I think so, but it could just be me thinking it helps. _________________________________________________________________ All-in-one security and maintenance for your PC.=A0 Get a free 90-day trial= ! http://www.windowsonecare.com/purchase/trial.aspx?sc_cid=3Dwl_wlmail= --_713ced75-17be-44db-87b3-713e09fb72a0_ Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable When I took Intro to Psych, we talked about state dependent learning,= and ever since then, it has been something I've thought about many times.&= nbsp; Our teacher gave us some study tips, like that we should study in an = environment similar to the one that we will be taking the test in-sitting a= t a desk, without distractions such as music or television. Since then, I'v= e always tried to study this way.  To be honest, I'm not sure if my te= st scores have improved since then, but I have been more focused while I wa= s studying.  Somewhat unrelated to memory, but related to test taking = and cognitive skills, awhile ago, I bought a cd called Mozart for the mind.=   It claimed that researchers had done a study and listening to Mozart= before an IQ test increased test-takers' scores.  Has anyone else hea= rd of this or have any insight?  Now I make it a habit to listen to Mo= zart before every test I take.  Does it help?  I think so, but it= could just be me thinking it helps.
All-in-one security and mai= ntenance for your PC.=A0 Get a free 90-day trial! Lea= rn more! = --_713ced75-17be-44db-87b3-713e09fb72a0_-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Sat Oct 21 01:00:24 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu) Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 19:00:24 -0500 Subject: [Psych3120] the importance of long-term memory (Romney Stevens) Message-ID: <20061020190024.23rtv7rb5wgc8skg@wm.integrity.com> I also thought the movie we watched yesterday was very interesting. I think it illustrates how crucial memory is, even though we usually don't think it is that vital to our everyday lives. I was also interested in the movie because it is interesting that Clive's wife said that his soul was still the same, and there were still things about him that were the same. It seems to me that these things that remain the same, despite the fact that the man has no memory of where he is, are what makes up the core of his personality. A lot of how people act in a given situation is determined by his past experiences in similare situations, but if someone has no memory of similar situations, than how he acts must be, as Clive's wife put it, "his soul". It is interesting how much we can learn from the case of one person who is missing something that is very basic. From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Sat Oct 21 18:57:49 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Chad C Moffitt) Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 11:57:49 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] prejudice on the tip-of-the-tongue Message-ID: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C6F53A.6BC457E9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Is prejudice related to the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon? And if so, = how? We know from class lecture that the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon = occurs when we are sure we know something but cannot think of the term = for it. Usually, an incorrect, yet related term keeps coming to mind, = blocking out the correct one, even though we know it is the wrong term. = What seems to be happening is that as we effortfully try to remember the = correct term, cognitve systems search for and suppress all other = information similar to the concept we are trying to bring into mind. = Yet, as this happens, cues to the very memory of the concept we are = seeking get suppressed in the process as well. Thus, trying to remember = the term can actually inhibit it from coming into consciousness. So, = what does this have do to with prejudice? Researchers have discovered = that the opposite can actually happen with prejudice. This occurs = through what is termed "prejudice/stereotype suppression." Here, being = told to not think about something actually makes it more salient and = keeps it in mind, thus potentially influencing how we interact with = other people. For example, if you have a bias against obese = individuals, and it bothers you to know that you are prejudice against = them, one way to deal with this is to simply say "just don't think of = obese people in this negative way." Yet when we try to not think about = something, it often happens that the unwanted information comes back to = mind even more frequently and with greater strength. This seems to = happen because as congitive systems search for any signs of the unwanted = information, it actually increases the accessibility of the unwanted = info to consciousness. Thus, trying not to think about your biases = against obese individuals may actually make your biases more available = to your awareness, coming quickly into mind the next time you encounter = an obese person. =20 ------_=_NextPart_001_01C6F53A.6BC457E9 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable =0A= =0A= =0A= =0A=
Is prejudice related to = the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon?  And if so, how?  We know = from class lecture that the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon occurs when we = are sure we know something but cannot think of the term for it.  = Usually, an incorrect, yet related term keeps coming to mind, blocking = out the correct one, even though we know it is the wrong = term.  What seems to be happening is that as we effortfully = try to remember the correct term, cognitve systems search for = and suppress all other information similar to the concept we are trying = to bring into mind.  Yet, as this happens, cues to the very memory = of the concept we are seeking get suppressed in the process as = well.  Thus, trying to remember the term can actually inhibit it = from coming into consciousness.  So, what does this have do to = with prejudice?  Researchers have discovered that the = opposite can actually happen with prejudice.  This occurs = through what is termed "prejudice/stereotype suppression."  = Here, being told to not think about something actually makes = it more salient and keeps it in mind, = thus potentially influencing how we interact with other = people.  For example, if you have a bias against obese = individuals, and it bothers you to know that you are prejudice against = them, one way to deal with this is to simply say "just don't think = of obese people in this negative way."  Yet when we try = to not think about something, it often happens that the unwanted = information comes back to mind even more frequently and with greater = strength.  This seems to happen because as congitive systems search = for any signs of the unwanted information, it actually increases the = accessibility of the unwanted info to consciousness.  Thus, trying = not to think about your biases against obese individuals may actually = make your biases more available to your awareness, coming quickly = into mind the next time you encounter an obese = person.    
------_=_NextPart_001_01C6F53A.6BC457E9-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Sat Oct 21 20:40:38 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Paige) Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 15:40:38 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [Psych3120] Good ole' Memory Message-ID: <20061021194038.6DDDE99E5C@mprdmxin.myway.com> --MYWAYBOUNDARY_000__bf5d66491e42580ca374cf6a70779726 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I think that it is crazy how important memory is, and our ability to retrieve what we need. I have a great example of what Dr. Strayer was talking about when he said we can retrieve things better from where we initially heard it/read it/saw it. A teacher in another class reminded us over and over the other day, that the next time we met we were required to bring out text in order to complete an in class assignment. I was annoyed at her for repeating herself so many times, and couldn't imagine anyone who didn't understand. As soon as I left that class I received a phone call from a friend who was having a complete, unrelated to any relevant thing, crisis. The next time that class met, I walked to it as I usually did. It wasn't until I walked into the door that my heart sank and I knew exactly what I had forgotten. I was very annoyed at the fact that this information was actually stored in my long term memory. It didn't take anyone to ask if I brought my book to know I was supposed to bring it. I only failed to bring up the right memory cue before I reached the class. Memory is an amazing thing, and is very helpful when we use it right.-Paige Baucom _______________________________________________ No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding. Make My Way your home on the Web - http://www.myway.com --MYWAYBOUNDARY_000__bf5d66491e42580ca374cf6a70779726 Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
I think that it is crazy how important memory is, and our ability to retrieve what we need. I have a great example of what Dr. Strayer was talking about when he said we can retrieve things better from where we initially heard it/read it/saw it. A teacher in another class reminded us over and over the other day, that the next time we met we were required to bring out text in order to complete an in class assignment. I was annoyed at her for repeating herself so many times, and couldn't imagine anyone who didn't understand. As soon as I left that class I received a phone call from a friend who was having a complete, unrelated to any relevant thing, crisis. The next time that class met, I walked to it as I usually did. It wasn't until I walked into the door that my heart sank and I knew exactly what I had forgotten. I was very annoyed at the fact that this information was actually stored in my long term memory. It didn't take anyone to ask if I brought my book to know I was supposed to bring it. I only failed to bring up the right memory cue before I reached the class. Memory is an amazing thing, and is very helpful when we use it right.
-Paige Baucom

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Make My Way your home on the Web - http://www.myway.com --MYWAYBOUNDARY_000__bf5d66491e42580ca374cf6a70779726-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Sat Oct 21 23:59:52 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Alisha Christiasnen) Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 15:59:52 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Psych3120] and yet more memory discussions Message-ID: <20061021225952.60031.qmail@web56610.mail.re3.yahoo.com> --0-966464197-1161471592=:59706 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I have been doing the reading in the book and it amazes me how much goes in= to actually storing the memory into your storage memory. That it's not just= based on encoding the information but on what we do with the information. = Also I think it is interesting on how we can remember things better that we= have learned when we try to remember them in the same spot we learned them= to begin with then if we tried to remember them in a completely different = spot. The fact that you can remember things bettter that you learned drunk = versus trying to remember them being sober is pretty cool because some migh= t think it would be the opposite that it would be easier to remember the th= ings we learned if we were sober. I also found it interesting in the book h= ow it talks about the various way we forget things. Some of the things that= were discussed I would have never of thought it would play a part into for= getting.=0A=0A --0-966464197-1161471592=:59706 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
I have been doing the reading in the book and it amaze= s me how much goes into actually storing the memory into your storage memor= y. That it's not just based on encoding the information but on what we do w= ith the information. Also I think it is interesting on how we can remember = things better that we have learned when we try to remember them in the same= spot we learned them to begin with then if we tried to remember them in a = completely different spot. The fact that you can remember things bettter th= at you learned drunk versus trying to remember them being sober is pretty c= ool because some might think it would be the opposite that it would be easi= er to remember the things we learned if we were sober. I also found it inte= resting in the book how it talks about the various way we forget things. So= me of the things that were discussed I would have never of thought it would play a part int= o forgetting.

--0-966464197-1161471592=:59706-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Sun Oct 22 01:37:17 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (alan richmond) Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 17:37:17 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Psych3120] 7 sins of memory Message-ID: <20061022003717.88284.qmail@web50302.mail.yahoo.com> Ever since Tuesday when we had the discussion about the 7 sins of memory I have been thinking about them and how often I fall prey to any one of them at any given time. I also wonder how much these 7 sins increase when children become involved. I have two boys ages 3 and 2 and it seems to me that ever since they have become apart of my life that I have started suffering more and more from two of these 7 sins more frequently than I used to. Absent mindedness and blocking are the two biggest culprits that I am thinking of. However if my two boys are the result of my increasing absent mindedness and blocking I also have hope that as they get older my absent mindedness and blocking will decrease. Then again who knows. Alan Richmond __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Sun Oct 22 04:10:16 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Lexi Breeze) Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 21:10:16 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] (no subject) Message-ID: For my post this week I just wanted to try to clear something up. I'm a little confused on how rehearsing material works, at least how we're discussing it in class. I'm wondering if you have to keep saying the first pieces of information in a list to get them into long term memory or if they go in there just because they were the first in the list and you try harder to remember them? It seems like there is a lot of emphasis that you keep saying the first items to remember them and it's hard to imagine that they really get stored into long term memory, not just short term remembering them for when you need to repeat them. _________________________________________________________________ Try the next generation of search with Windows Live Search today! http://imagine-windowslive.com/minisites/searchlaunch/?locale=en-us&source=hmtagline From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Sun Oct 22 05:23:18 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Paul Rudd) Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 21:23:18 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Psych3120] Those one things (Sins ) of Memory! In-Reply-To: <200610211807.k9LI6VWm009368@topo.csbs.utah.edu> Message-ID: <20061022042318.36982.qmail@web34809.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Sure there are 7 sins of memory but it seems that most people only use a few of them. Like transience, blocking, and misattribution. But I found the TAB Moldy Soda Bi-Product to be very helpful in remembering all 7 sins. I have remembered all 7 sins ever since that lecture, so it is a powerful tool. It seems that problems like absent mindedness are things that everyone suffers from and it is soo frustrating when it happens, yet soo avoidable. Blocking is the one that drives me the most crazy. I think I suffer from cronic tip-of-the-tongue state. If I simply ignore what ever it was I was trying to remember, I can usually remember it in no time. It just seems impossible to ignore something that you know you know! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Sun Oct 22 18:06:56 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Katie) Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 11:06:56 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] Memory References: <4E9A09E16264024C80C968D5CFCCB7AB017FA7@xeoni.digitalbreakdown.com> Message-ID: <4E9A09E16264024C80C968D5CFCCB7AB017FCD@xeoni.digitalbreakdown.com> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C6F5FC.BB049EE6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I'm finding this section on memory very interesting and useful since I = =3D > am currently studying for the GRE and there is so much information = that =3D > one should be prepared for on this exam, it seems impossible to know = and =3D > remember everything. It's so hard sometimes to understand how our mind = =3D > and memory work, but it's so important. 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> they frequently have very vivid memories of things that have never = =3D
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------_=_NextPart_001_01C6F5FC.BB049EE6-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Sun Oct 22 21:26:00 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Kim Endersen) Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 13:26:00 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Psych3120] Thoughts on Memory Message-ID: <20061022202600.1284.qmail@web35309.mail.mud.yahoo.com> --0-1046073265-1161548760=:485 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit When in class this week, I found the information on memory very interesting. This summer I spent some time in Hawaii. As part of my trip, I went to Pearl Harbor. Before visitors are taken to the monument, they are shown a movie of the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. A gentleman spoke before the movie who had been at Hickam Air Force Base the day of the attack and subsequently served in WWII. He recalled the incident with, what seemed to me, surprising clarity. He told us how he had seen a man, is neighbor, gunned down by a Japanese plane. He described the look on the man's face and the impact it had on him in that moment. When we were discussing flashbulb memory in class, it reminded me of this man. Seeing the death of a man would be traumatic enough, but seeing the dying face of a man he lived and grew up next to, must have been even more traumatic. The emotion of the moment must have firmly engrained the memory into this man's mind, probably more to him than to many other Americans on that day. That made me wonder how accurate his memories are almost 65 years later. As someone who can learn something from the experiences of others, I want to take his word as completely accurate. --------------------------------- Get your email and more, right on the new Yahoo.com --0-1046073265-1161548760=:485 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit When in class this week, I found the information on memory very interesting.  This summer I spent some time in Hawaii.  As part of my trip, I went to Pearl Harbor.  Before visitors are taken to the monument, they are shown a movie of the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.  A gentleman spoke before the movie who had been at Hickam Air Force Base the day of the attack and subsequently served in WWII.  He recalled the incident with, what seemed to me, surprising clarity.  He told us how he had seen a man, is neighbor, gunned down by a Japanese plane.  He described the look on the man's face and the impact it had on him in that moment.  When we were discussing flashbulb memory in class, it reminded me of this man.  Seeing the death of a man would be traumatic enough, but seeing the dying face of a man he lived and grew up next to, must have been even more traumatic.  The emotion of the moment must have firmly engrained the memory into this man's mind, probably more to him than to many other Americans on that day.  That made me wonder how accurate his memories are almost 65 years later.  As someone who can learn something from the experiences of others, I want to take his word as completely accurate. 

Get your email and more, right on the new Yahoo.com --0-1046073265-1161548760=:485-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Sun Oct 22 21:37:03 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Kim Endersen) Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 13:37:03 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Psych3120] Eyewitness Testimony Message-ID: <20061022203704.55181.qmail@web35314.mail.mud.yahoo.com> --0-346850798-1161549423=:50876 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In class this week we talked about the fallibility of eyewitness testimony. My dad was recently subpoenad to give testimony in a criminal trial. The man in question in the case was actually featured on America's Most Wanted. The incident for which my dad is to testify occured almost 3 years ago and the trial has since been postponed until December, adding more time between the actual event and the time my dad is to testify. I asked him how much he remembers, and he says he only remembers the specifics and everything else is rather vague. Fortunately, there is a lot of other evidence in the case and it doesn't rely solely on my dad's testimony. However, my dad's testimony is very important. The attorney prosecuting the case thought it was important enough that when the trial was scheduled for a day that my dad would be out of time, she had the case rescheduled for a time when he could be there because of the effect his testimony would have on the jury. So while eyewitness testimony might not be the most ideal evidence, it is still important to the justice system, maybe incorrectly. --------------------------------- How low will we go? Check out Yahoo! Messenger’s low PC-to-Phone call rates. --0-346850798-1161549423=:50876 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In class this week we talked about the fallibility of eyewitness testimony.  My dad was recently subpoenad to give testimony in a criminal trial.  The man in question in the case was actually featured on America's Most Wanted.  The incident for which my dad is to testify occured almost 3 years ago and the trial has since been postponed until December, adding more time between the actual event and the time my dad is to testify.  I asked him how much he remembers, and he says he only remembers the specifics and everything else is rather vague.  Fortunately, there is a lot of other evidence in the case and it doesn't rely solely on my dad's testimony. However, my dad's testimony is very important.  The attorney prosecuting the case thought it was important enough that when the trial was scheduled for a day that my dad would be out of time, she had the case rescheduled for a time when he could be there because of the effect his testimony would have on the jury.  So while eyewitness testimony might not be the most ideal evidence, it is still important to the justice system, maybe incorrectly.

How low will we go? Check out Yahoo! Messenger’s low PC-to-Phone call rates. --0-346850798-1161549423=:50876-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Sun Oct 22 22:15:26 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Jennie Ruff) Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 15:15:26 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] Oh fickle memory. In-Reply-To: <20061022003717.88284.qmail@web50302.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20061022003717.88284.qmail@web50302.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <2D8B1DDA-3860-42DC-82AE-60E60A2247CC@impulsion-sim.com> Memory has always been a running gag in my family, and so I've always been very interested in how it work. My mother (and me!) is plagued by absentmindedness; we're the people who set their keys down and then don't know where they are five minuets later. However, I have an impeccable memory for numbers and mundane details. Such as when my boyfriend's niece was born (even he doesn't remember) and exactly what someone said to me like four months ago, even though it wasn't important. The seven sins of memory really interested me. I noticed I have a great tendency to block out events, which is actually rather frightening. For example, I managed to completely forget falling off a horse about three years ago when a saddle slipped. From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Sun Oct 22 23:58:06 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (ryan green) Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 15:58:06 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Psych3120] Just in case you were wondering Message-ID: <20061022225806.19105.qmail@web34304.mail.mud.yahoo.com> --0-51103154-1161557886=:13926 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit The Gestaltist¡¦s mantra, ¡§The whole is greater than the sum of its parts¡¨, is the spring board from which many important empirical and theoretical observations jump. The Gestalt movement, which started in Germany in the first half of the 20th century, was important for the progress of psychology because it was a direct response to the Adamistic, bottom-up processing philosophy that was prevalent at the time. The Gestaltists repeatedly showed that, in fact, the whole was greater than the sum of its parts, thereby demonstrating that bottom-up processing could not account for all of human perception and that top-down processing played a powerful, if not dominant role. The Gestaltists (gestalt is a German word meaning ¡§form¡¨ or ¡§shape¡¨) summarized their principles of perceptual organization as, but not limited to, proximity, closure, similarity, simplicity (pragnanz), continuity (or good continuation) and common fate. Proximity deals with the phenomenon in visual perception where things that are closer together tend to be grouped together and processed as a unit. The principle of closure says that lines, shapes and forms that seem to have gaps missing, will be filled in by the processes of perception so that we don¡¦t perceive the missing pieces. Similarity is the idea that similar objects will tend to be grouped together and processed as a unit. Simplicity, commonly referred to as the Law of Pragnanz, (pragnanz, in German, means ¡§good form¡¨) is simply the idea that people tend to group things to create the simplest and most consistent form. Continuity is quite intuitive as are many of the Gestalt processes. It simply means that lines or objects arranged in a line, whether they be curved or straight, will be seen as a unit. The last principle that will be dealt with here is called common fate. This principle says that objects which move in the same direction tend to be seen as a unit. Usually, we use a combination of these principles in our perceptive processes. And depending on the situation and context, some of the principles tend to have stronger influences than others. For example, in some circumstances, common fate can overcome the principle of proximity. --------------------------------- Get your own web address for just $1.99/1st yr. We'll help. Yahoo! Small Business. --0-51103154-1161557886=:13926 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
The Gestaltist¡¦s mantra, ¡§The whole is greater than the sum of its parts¡¨, is the spring board from which many important empirical and theoretical observations jump. The Gestalt movement, which started in Germany in the first half of the 20th century, was important for the progress of psychology because it was a direct response to the Adamistic, bottom-up processing philosophy that was prevalent at the time. The Gestaltists repeatedly showed that, in fact, the whole was greater than the sum of its parts, thereby demonstrating that bottom-up processing could not account for all of human perception and that top-down processing played a powerful, if not dominant role.
            The Gestaltists (gestalt is a German word meaning ¡§form¡¨ or ¡§shape¡¨) summarized their principles of perceptual organization as, but not limited to, proximity, closure, similarity, simplicity (pragnanz), continuity (or good continuation) and common fate.
Proximity deals with the phenomenon in visual perception where things that are closer together tend to be grouped together and processed as a unit. The principle of closure says that lines, shapes and forms that seem to have gaps missing, will be filled in by the processes of perception so that we don¡¦t perceive the missing pieces. Similarity is the idea that similar objects will tend to be grouped together and processed as a unit. Simplicity, commonly referred to as the Law of Pragnanz, (pragnanz, in German, means ¡§good form¡¨) is simply the idea that people tend to group things to create the simplest and most consistent form. Continuity is quite intuitive as are many of the Gestalt processes. It simply means that lines or objects arranged in a line, whether they be curved or straight, will be seen as a unit. The last principle that will be dealt with here is called common fate. This principle says that objects which move in the same direction tend to be seen as a unit. 
            Usually, we use a combination of these principles in our perceptive processes. And depending on the situation and context, some of the principles tend to have stronger influences than others. For example, in some circumstances, common fate can overcome the principle of proximity.

Get your own web address for just $1.99/1st yr. We'll help. Yahoo! Small Business. --0-51103154-1161557886=:13926-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Mon Oct 23 00:59:23 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (jolene stehlin) Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 17:59:23 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] (no subject) Message-ID: During this past week in lecture, and in this weeks readings I was really interested in the idea of false memories. I think everyone has had that experience of hearing a story and then re-telling it as if it were their own before realizing that it was something they only heard about. However, I can't imagine having a false memory so strong and vivid that it would lead to the conviction of an innocent person. I'm glad that we have things like DNA evidence that aid in proving people innocent rather than relying solely on the testimony of one person. Also, a month or so ago when we were talking about top down processing I posted a comment about a paragraph I had seen where none of the words were spelled correctly, but you could read it perfectly. I couldn't find it at the time, but I have it now and I included it below. It's amazing how the mind works!! O lny srmat poelpe can raed tihs. I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt! _________________________________________________________________ Try Search Survival Kits: Fix up your home and better handle your cash with Live Search! http://imagine-windowslive.com/search/kits/default.aspx?kit=improve&locale=en-US&source=hmtagline From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Mon Oct 23 02:29:05 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Jake Andreason) Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 19:29:05 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] Memory Message-ID: Memory really is a pretty amazing thing and for me can be kind of frustrating. Everyone probably has a story about when they were supposed to remember something important and ended up forgetting. This is really frustrating when later you get that cue to retrieve whatever information you need and suddenly your stomache sinks as you remember, which is too late of course. My truck has been having some problems breaking down lately so I've had to drive my wife to work while I'm in the process of fixing things. This is always kind of a pain and recently I've been really frustrated when these things keep happening. During the last one my truck had broken down the day before and so I had to drive my wife's car again. My wife's always good about reminding me that I have to come pick her up from work and I normally don't have a problem remembering. This time though I had spent a couple hours replacing a starter and got back inside long enough to turn on the TV and realize I was a half hour late to pick up my wife. In class we have talked about how you can remember things better when in the same situations, well I was watching TV the night before when she carefully reminded me to come get her. It's a good thing she's really patient. _________________________________________________________________ Use your PC to make calls at very low rates https://voiceoam.pcs.v2s.live.com/partnerredirect.aspx From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Mon Oct 23 04:09:45 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Michelle Zur) Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 03:09:45 +0000 Subject: [Psych3120] blocking Message-ID:



I experience blocking on a day to day basis, ESPECIALLY when it goes along with test anxiety. The feeling that you really do know the information, but it is just beyond the threshold of your ability to recall it. Another time when I have a problem with blocking is in quick thinking games such as Jeopardy.


Stay in touch with old friends and meet new ones with Windows Live Spaces From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Mon Oct 23 04:50:35 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Kasey lundgren) Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 20:50:35 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Psych3120] eyewitness.....modes posting Message-ID: <20061023035035.87186.qmail@web33007.mail.mud.yahoo.com> --0-900126177-1161575435=:86384 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit so i was watching American justice.......because as lame as it sounds it is by far my favorite show, i watched this episode about this white woman who was raped by this black man. She testified that it was this certain black man by her eyewitness account, so something life 15 or twenty years go by and he petitions for another trial and they end up using DNA to clear him, the woman could not believe he was not the one who did it and also felt extremely horrible that she put this man behind bars for so many years. They later matched the DNA to a man that died in prison from cancer. The lady and the man she first identified are now friends and she is an advocate for those innocent people in jail. I thought this story was so crazy be she could vividly remember this man .....his face eyes nose everything and she was so sure it was him. It was so sad that this man was taken away from his family and kids because of faulty eyewitness testimony ans the tricks your memory can play on you. --------------------------------- Get your email and more, right on the new Yahoo.com --0-900126177-1161575435=:86384 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
so i was watching American justice.......because as lame as it sounds it is by far my
favorite show, i watched this episode about this white woman who was raped by
this black man. She testified that it was this certain black man by her eyewitness
account, so something life 15 or twenty years go by and he petitions for another
trial and they end up using DNA to clear him, the woman could not believe he was not
the one who did it and also felt extremely horrible that she put this man behind
bars for so many years. They later matched the DNA to a man that died in prison
from cancer. The lady and the man she first identified are now friends and she is an
advocate for those innocent people in jail. I thought this story was so crazy be
she could vividly remember this man .....his face eyes nose everything and she was
so sure it was him. It was so sad that this man was taken away from  his family and
kids because of faulty eyewitness testimony ans the tricks your memory can play on
you.

Get your email and more, right on the new Yahoo.com --0-900126177-1161575435=:86384-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Mon Oct 23 04:59:22 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Jacob Hansen) Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 21:59:22 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] 3120 weekly entry Message-ID:


hey yall-

it has been a long stressful week with preparations for exams and accidents at work so i have had a lot of time to think about what i wanted to write this week.  so with my accident at work i smashed my finger and had to sit in the emergency room for several hours. and how this pertains to memory is that i sat for a long time and just kept trying to remember how my accident took place.  though i was in shock and can't remember very much i keep seeing my finger seconds after the incident.  the secnerio kept playing over and over in my head like a very obsesive thought to at which one point i was beging to myself not to hink about it any more. i think due to the circumstance and constant reminder from the pain and splint on my hand aided in the memories. so if memories are supposed to be a useful tool in aiding in future behaviors as not to repeat the past i have a good reminder in front of my now.




JAKE
From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Mon Oct 23 06:58:11 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu) Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 22:58:11 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Psych3120] false memory Message-ID: <20061023055811.95841.qmail@web56513.mail.re3.yahoo.com> --0-1492792087-1161583091=:95464 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit There is a story my mother tells about me jumping into a pool at Snowbird when I was a year old. I've heard this story many times and sometimes think I can actually remember this happening. I probably don't remember I've just created a false memory after hearing the story so many times. I've heard of encoding false memories.. I think this may be one of them. The lecture about coding and recoding memories made me think of this. Because if something gets recoded so many times inaccurately it becomes something that doesn't even resemble the original memory. Crazy.. makes me wonder how many stories I've been told are way off base. --------------------------------- All-new Yahoo! Mail - Fire up a more powerful email and get things done faster. --0-1492792087-1161583091=:95464 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
There is a story my mother tells about me jumping into a pool at Snowbird when I was a year old.  I've heard this story many times and sometimes think I can actually remember this happening.  I probably don't remember I've just created a false memory after hearing the story so many times.  I've heard of encoding false memories.. I think this may be one of them.  The lecture about coding and recoding memories made me think of this.  Because if something gets recoded so many times inaccurately it becomes something that doesn't even resemble the original memory.  Crazy.. makes me wonder how many stories I've been told are way off base.

All-new Yahoo! Mail - Fire up a more powerful email and get things done faster. --0-1492792087-1161583091=:95464-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Mon Oct 23 18:48:18 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Becca Vrabel) Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 17:48:18 +0000 Subject: [Psych3120] Clive Message-ID: I can not imagine what it must be like for Clive to be awake each day and function with his wife and people around him. This must be a very difficult task for his wife to take care of him everyday. I would think she would feel overwhelmed by the responsibility she faces everyday to 'wake' Clive up to his existance. _________________________________________________________________ Stay in touch with old friends and meet new ones with Windows Live Spaces http://clk.atdmt.com/MSN/go/msnnkwsp0070000001msn/direct/01/?href=http://spaces.live.com/spacesapi.aspx?wx_action=create&wx_url=/friends.aspx&mkt=en-us From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Mon Oct 23 19:23:58 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Sabreena Khan) Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 11:23:58 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Psych3120] just a comment Message-ID: <20061023182358.73057.qmail@web55414.mail.re4.yahoo.com> --0-1312539628-1161627838=:72446 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit hey, y'all. just wanted to make a little comment on something that was previously talked about in class. when..that grad student boy (can't remember his name..) came in to lecture he asked if we could recall 9/11 CLEARLY. and i think that i blurted out my answer a little too quickly. the more and more i think about it, the more doubt my answer to his question. i guess i can't really say whether or not i remember that day CLEARLY. it just kind of hit me in a weird way...and i suppose my experience was somewhat different than a lot of y'all's. the more i think about it, i guess i would have to chalk it up to rehearsal; that is, my "vivid recollection" probably has everything to do with repeating the story so many times because it WAS different from a lot of others' experiences. just wanted to get that off my chest. sabreena khan --------------------------------- Get your email and more, right on the new Yahoo.com --0-1312539628-1161627838=:72446 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
hey, y'all. just wanted to make a little comment on something that was previously talked about in class. when..that grad student boy (can't remember his name..) came in to lecture he asked if we could recall 9/11 CLEARLY. and i think that i blurted out my answer a little too quickly. the more and more i think about it, the more doubt my answer to his question. i guess i can't really say whether or not i remember that day CLEARLY. it just kind of hit me in a weird way...and i suppose my experience was somewhat different than a lot of y'all's. the more i think about it, i guess i would have to chalk it up to rehearsal; that is, my "vivid recollection" probably has everything to do with repeating the story so many times because it WAS different from a lot of others' experiences.
just wanted to get that off my chest.
sabreena khan

Get your email and more, right on the new Yahoo.com --0-1312539628-1161627838=:72446-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Mon Oct 23 23:22:50 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Dan Laxman) Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 22:22:50 +0000 Subject: [Psych3120] Method of Loci and Peg Word List In-Reply-To: <200610231802.k9NI22cj006836@topo.csbs.utah.edu> Message-ID: Method of loci: I wanted to add something to the class discussion of the method of loci where you remember things by placing them in a familiar scene. The example in class was remembering a grocery list by placing the items in a familiar scene (like your house or the path you always take while on a walk with your significant other). You then can remember the items as you walk by them. You can also use this method to remember a speech or to remember abstract concepts by “placing” an object that symbolically represents what you are trying to remember or that sounds like the term that you are trying to remember. (I discussed this in an earlier entry—this all comes from Harry Lorayne and Jerry Lucas’s book “The Memory Book” available at the library and the bookstore). Anyway, the ancient orators who were among the first to use the method of loci apparently did not realize that you could associate not only an idea to a place, but an idea to another idea! So rather than place an egg and milk along your imaginary path, you associate the ideas directly. As you imagine the relationship, there are a few suggestions from Lorayne and Lucas that will make this process more effective: 1. the image needs to be ridiculous, 2. the image should be out of proportion, 3. the image needs to have a large number of the thing being remembered, 4. the image needs to involve action, especially action that involves you, and, finally, 5. you need to take the time to actually see the image in your minds eye. So, for example, you could imagine an ENORMOUS egg (the size of a building) that YOU are CRACKING OPEN with a sledgehammer. As it breaks open YOU ARE COVERED by a flood of not egg yolk, but MILLIONS of TINY milk cartons (the kind you got in elementary school) that KNOCK YOU over. (The capitalized words represent times when I used the suggestions of Lucas and Lorayne). Make sure, though, that you actually see this in your mind’s eye. You can then associate the next item on the list to milk and so on. For abstract ideas, you will use concrete terms that sound alike as I discussed in an earlier entry. By using this approach to remember a list or link concepts together, you can end up with some very bizarre/ridiculous stories. That is exactly what you want to do! The more bizarre the story is the more distinct it will be and thus the less interference. Also, it seems much easier to remember a visual scene than to try and connect two ideas together. By creating a visual image of the relationship between two ideas you are in effect creating another retrieval structure. I would also like to add a little to our discussion of the Peg Word list. A similar list that I was presented uses letter to represent each number: L = 1, n = 2, m = 3, and so on. Once you know the ten letters/numbers you can create any number by using the letters and filling in the letters in between with vowels. For example, if I needed to remember the number 21, I would associate the idea with “nail.” This technique is helpful if you need to remember a lot of numbers, or remember dates. I used these techniques in a political science class several years ago where I had to know both the name of the case, what it was about, and the year it was ruled on. I created a visual image of a strawberry jam cow flying through the air and landing in a tub. The scene is ridiculous, but easy to remember and I could pick out from each part the name of the case, the year, and what it was about. You might say that it is difficult to come up with all of these stories to memorize these things. Why not just memorize them directly? Lucas and Lorayne would respond that yes it is difficult to use this system (at first), but it’s difficult to memorize those things anyway. As you use this method more and more, it becomes easier and easier to remember and recall information. In fact, eventually you will forget the story and be able to recall the information without the “scaffolding” of the story. Perhaps the reason this method works so well is that first of all it forces you to pay attention to what you are memorizing—to process it at a deeper level—which helps memory, but also it provides a visual image that you can use as a retrieval cue. I would even argue that it easier to recall visual images than other forms of memory. There is a potential for errors in the visual image, but that is why you make the image so ridiculous and distinct. Visual association is a powerful memory tool. -Dan Laxman From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Mon Oct 23 23:41:31 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Jennifer Adams) Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 16:41:31 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] Music and the mind Message-ID: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0014_01C6F6C2.18A08860 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0015_01C6F6C2.18A08860" ------=_NextPart_001_0015_01C6F6C2.18A08860 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I read an article in the Deseret News this past weekend about music and how it helps the "brain organize and keep order." It quotes Michael Ballam as saying that even though traumatic brain injury or Alzheimer's or a stroke can damage the brain, music can restore some of that order. He claims that unexpected patterns, beats, and tunes (like Bach or Handel) provide "humor" for the mind. It titillates the brain and causes the synapses to fire. Conversely, music with repetitive beats and rhythms "shuts down the brain". He compares this process to how a filing system helps a computer keep track of all the bits and pieces of information it's accumulates. Supposedly, music helps in the organization of the bits and pieces, and allows for better storage and retrieval. I quote, "When you need cognitive excellence, surround yourself with music. It works." So, according to our lectures recently, if you are listening to a CD of Bach driving down State Street and witness an accident, you may have the best recall if you go back to that same intersection on State Street and listen to the same CD as before, on the same day of the week, same hour, and same weather conditions, right? ------=_NextPart_001_0015_01C6F6C2.18A08860 Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

I read an article in the Deseret News = this past weekend about music and how it helps the “brain organize and = keep order.” It quotes Michael Ballam as saying that even though = traumatic brain injury or Alzheimer’s or a stroke can damage the brain, = music can restore some of that order. He claims that unexpected patterns, beats, = and tunes (like Bach or Handel) provide “humor” for the mind. It = titillates the brain and causes the synapses to fire.  Conversely, music with repetitive beats and rhythms “shuts down the brain”. He = compares this process to how a filing system helps a computer keep track of all the = bits and pieces of information it’s accumulates.  Supposedly, music = helps in the organization of the bits and pieces, and allows for better storage = and retrieval.  I quote, “When you need cognitive excellence, = surround yourself with music. It works.” So, according to our lectures = recently, if you are listening to a CD of Bach driving down State Street and = witness an accident, you may have the best recall if you go back to that same = intersection on State Street and listen to the same CD as before, on the same day of = the week, same hour, and same weather conditions, right? =

 

  

 

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I also have a bunch of memories from my early years that have been told to me since I was little. In one, when I was about 8 months old, we were waiting for a train and I swear I can remember every detail, like the lamp posts and the cold air and my red jacket. There are more and more as I get older, but I just wonder how accurate my memories are, and how much I actually remember vs how much I have created the memories based on what my parents have told me and how I have thought about the things they told me. Even something that happened to me about a year ago, which I swear I remember perfectly, my friend says happened quite differently.  I am soooo sure I am right, but research suggests that most likely both my friend and I remember the event slightly wrong.

Stay in touch with old friends and meet new ones with Windows Live Spaces From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Tue Oct 24 03:27:42 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (tucker voss) Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 20:27:42 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] tip of the tongue Message-ID: Before class last Thursday Ryan Green and I were talking about a study that was done on chimps for some reason, and Ryan was trying to remember the name of the psychologist that was working with the chimps in this one film. He was saying to me that he knew the name and that it was right there in his mind, but for some reason he couldn’t get it out. Then later in class during the part of the lecture about ‘tip of the tongue’ he leaned over to me and said the name of the psychologist. I thought that it was funny because it couldn’t have come at a better time; immediately after he said the name, Dr. Strayer was saying that the harder you try to remember something the more it inhibits the info. He then went on to say that the info usually will come to mind later when you are not thinking about it. I thought to my, “self thanks Ryan for the perfect example of tip of the tongue effect, I will not forget it now.” _________________________________________________________________ Add a Yahoo! contact to Windows Live Messenger for a chance to win a free trip! http://www.imagine-windowslive.com/minisites/yahoo/default.aspx?locale=en-us&hmtagline From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Tue Oct 24 05:36:33 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (hailey Woodside) Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 22:36:33 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] state dependant learning Message-ID:
So...just out of curiosity, why would someone decided to do an experiment on learning that involved being under water or on a boat? I can something more applicanble...like maybe memorizing facts either at home or in a classroom. I thought it was intersting there was actually a difference between land and water because it seems like if I learned something underwater I'd remember it anywhere, just because it would be such a novel experiance. But maybe thats just me.

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Stay in touch with old friends and meet new ones with Windows Live Spaces From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Tue Oct 24 17:43:50 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Aubrey Wilkinson) Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 10:43:50 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] I think I can.. In-Reply-To: <200610231802.k9NI22cj006836@topo.csbs.utah.edu> Message-ID:

I work at a crisis line, where we also do employee assistance for a couple of railroads. Part of our job is to call them after a critical incident has occurred. I was shocked to find out how often people are killed by trains, either by accident or on purpose. It happens all the time. We are reponsible for debreifing these employees daily, in regards to the incidents. Often they are plagued by the memory of the situation, and suffer flashbacks to the incident for a long time following it. One common issue I've found is that being involved in a critical incident brings back memories from past ones, in which emotions ran so high, that they are more vivid and traumatic to the person. They feel exactly the same as they did in the situation, even if the current situation is much less intense or traumatizing, per se, than the past incident. Memory is definitely all about emotionality, and a similar situation will take that employee right back to the way they felt about it the first time around.

From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Tue Oct 24 19:23:20 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Kyle Murdock) Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 12:23:20 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] Eyewitness Testimony In-Reply-To: <200610241803.k9OI34fp020992@topo.csbs.utah.edu> Message-ID:



It is really sad that our memories are so bad and so convincing that we can send an innocent person to jail. If the convicted people do get out before they die they don't really have much that they can do as far as work. When you are a convicted felon there aren't too many people that are willing to give you a job. I guess what I am trying to say is that we can ruin someones life over something that they didn't do. They must feel so helpless. I believe that jurors would be more resistant to eyewitness testimonies if they imagined themselves in the defendents postition. I know that if I was a defendent of a crime I didn't commit, I would want jurors to really think about the impact their decision has on the rest of the defendents life. What amazes me the most is that the men don't feel a great amount of revenge. I do not think I would be so graceful. Thanks,
 
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Get today's hot entertainment gossip From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Tue Oct 24 20:02:00 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (laura cervantes) Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 13:02:00 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] what jennifer saw Message-ID: I thought the movie today was very interesting, it was definatly informative so that we may be better prepared when we go before our judicial system, either as jurors or witnesses, ect. I serve on a jury about 10 years ago, it was a dui case but I remember how diligent the jurors in that room were, they take their responsibility very seriously and they are always willing to hear any information that could help them decide a case, so i was glad for the info today Laura Brunello _________________________________________________________________ Add a Yahoo! contact to Windows Live Messenger for a chance to win a free trip! http://www.imagine-windowslive.com/minisites/yahoo/default.aspx?locale=en-us&hmtagline From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Tue Oct 24 06:57:12 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Claudia Guarderas) Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 23:57:12 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] (no subject) Message-ID: ------=_Part_70548_30151230.1161669432648 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline I find it amazing how crucial our memory is to our everyday existence. While our memory is what makes each one of us, it's also interesting to see that it is our memory that basically helps keep us alive and functioning every day. If we simply had no long-term memory we'd have to relearn basic everyday norms just to get by because we'd only have short term memory to rely on. Another point, I know emotions affect our memory; however it would be interesting to see just to what extent it affects it. ------=_Part_70548_30151230.1161669432648 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline

I find it amazing how crucial our memory is to our everyday existence. While our memory is what makes each one of us, it's also interesting to see that it is our memory that basically helps keep us alive and functioning every day. If we simply had no long-term memory we'd have to relearn basic everyday norms just to get by because we'd only have short term memory to rely on. Another point, I know emotions affect our memory; however it would be interesting to see just to what extent it affects it.

------=_Part_70548_30151230.1161669432648-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Tue Oct 24 22:06:01 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Benjamin Divine) Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 14:06:01 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Psych3120] Recoding: My Faulty Memory Retrieval Message-ID: <20061024210601.45111.qmail@web42108.mail.mud.yahoo.com> --0-1252422504-1161723961=:44308 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit After watching "What Jennifer Saw," I am reminded of an event which took place in my life. It is by no means as extreme or emotionally involved as Jennifer's story but it is related in the context of faulty memory retrieval. My father was a firefighter for Murray City for almost 25 years. I have numerous memories of visiting him at the fire station throughout my entire life. I would always tell my friends how cool I thought my dad was and how he saves lives. I can vividly remember begging my dad to pick me up from school in the fire truck just once, so that all of my Friends could see me be taken home in it. Then, one day after my class during kindergarten, it happened! There outside of my classroom was a big yellow fire truck waiting to take me home. The door to the fire truck opened and I hopped in and was driven away while waiving to everyone outside as a I left. I felt so proud, and to this day I still share the story of when my dad picked me up from school in the fire truck. However, it wasn't until a few years ago that I mentioned that story to my dad only to find out that he was never there!! He told me that he had some his firefighter buddies pick me and he was never there. I could've sworn he was there; in fact, I have vivid memories of him sitting next to me in the fire truck but he insists that he was not on duty that day and did not pick me up. After watching the video today, I feel as if I had created a faulty memory of my dad as I would tell the story over and over again to people. This is perhaps due to the fact that I had to recode this memory over and over until this false memory became a reality to me. Oh well, it still was such a cool experience for a little kid like I was!! --------------------------------- Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. Make PC-to-Phone Calls to the US (and 30+ countries) for 2¢/min or less. --0-1252422504-1161723961=:44308 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit After watching "What Jennifer Saw," I am reminded of an event which took place in my life.  It is by no means as extreme or emotionally involved as Jennifer's story but it is related in the context of faulty memory retrieval.  My father was a firefighter for Murray City for almost 25 years.  I have numerous memories of visiting him at the fire station throughout my entire life.  I would always tell my friends how cool I thought my dad was and how he saves lives.  I can vividly remember begging my dad to pick me up from school in the fire truck just once, so that all of my Friends could see me be taken home in it.  Then, one day after my class during kindergarten, it happened!  There outside of my classroom was a big yellow fire truck waiting to take me home.  The door to the fire truck opened and I hopped in and was driven away while waiving to everyone outside as a I left.  I felt so proud, and to this day I still share the story of when my dad picked me up from school in the fire truck.  However, it wasn't until a few years ago that I mentioned that story to my dad only to find out that he was never there!! He told me that he had some his firefighter buddies pick me and he was never there.  I could've sworn he was there; in fact, I have vivid memories of him sitting next to me in the fire truck but he insists that he was not on duty that day and did not pick me up.  After watching the video today, I feel as if I had created a faulty memory of my dad as I would tell the story over and over again to people.  This is perhaps due to the fact that I had to recode this memory over and over until this false memory became a reality to me.  Oh well, it still was such a cool experience for a little kid like I was!!

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Make PC-to-Phone Calls to the US (and 30+ countries) for 2¢/min or less. --0-1252422504-1161723961=:44308-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Tue Oct 24 22:33:46 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (alan richmond) Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 14:33:46 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Psych3120] today's movie Message-ID: <20061024213346.70947.qmail@web50310.mail.yahoo.com> Hi all, Today's movie really got me to thinking about how reliable our memory really is.A couple of semesters back I was taking a social psych class and the instructor conducted a demonstration that was similar to a police photo lineup with the class. first the instructor showed video footage of a person who was in the act of committing a crime and then in the middle of the individual making his get away the professor paused the video for five seconds to allow the class ample time to get a clear picture of what the suspect looked like. then the professor showed a police line up and asked the class which person out of the five individuals in the line up was the suspect who had committed the crime. Out of a class of about 25 individuals only two got the answer right. The suspect was not even in the line up. I was amazed at this answer especially in light of the fact that when the professor paused the video there was a clear image of the persons face. Todays movie re-inforced the lesson to me that when trying to recall details of an event such as a crime scene that we really need to be careful about what we say we know. In both instances the demonstration that my social psych professor gave and in the movie that we watched to day it was shown just how faulty memory can be. Alan Richmond __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Wed Oct 25 03:04:04 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Darin Mano) Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 20:04:04 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] Eyewitness Failures Message-ID: <3b4d82fa0610241904x1377099ewe6cab43ccb07fd7b@mail.gmail.com> The video we watched in class really made me think. It is so easy to see how that kind of mistake could happen now. It is really scary that there would be so many people that this may have happened to. I think that it really brings up a lot of questions about our legal system. It make you wonder how many people are in jail that are innocent. It is so unfortunate. It seems so easy to look at a photo spread and pick a person as the criminal even though you are not 100 percent sure. Then, after deciting and being told that that person was in fact a suspect, decide that that person was the person and no longer doubt it at all. Then, it seems to easy to continually rehearse that memory with that person's picture. The memory would be recoded and recoded over and over until you were completely sure that the person was in fact the criminal. It makes me a little worried about what kinds of memory errors I might be making. I think that it is to bad that it happens. What is really too bad is that the public is not better educated about the dangers of eyewitness testimony. It seems like there is so much credit give to eyewitness testimony that it is viewed as the best kind of evidence. It seems expecially odd considering that this is the least reliable kind of evidence. I wonder if people will ever really be able to understand this concept. -- Darin M. Mano From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Wed Oct 25 03:29:48 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (William Gordon) Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 20:29:48 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] American Justice System, kinda stinks like two-day-ol' Shhhhhhh...quiet now. In-Reply-To: <200610211807.k9LI6VWm009368@topo.csbs.utah.edu> Message-ID: What an interesting class today. When Professor Strayer said that they had just recently released the hundredth person that was innocent, I felt no relief. There are probably thousands upon thousands of people incarcerated for crimes they didn’t commit, and I’m sure many have died in jail that were innocent. Eye-witness testimony probably shouldn’t even be allowed in court. Like Strayer said, whether the individual proposing the memory is accurate or not, it simply isn’t a reliable source. Perhaps the government ought to start several programs like the one that freed Cotton, fund it with federal money. Quite frankly, they should have released a thousand innocent persons by now, not a hundred. Prison is hell. Jail is potentially worst. I know first hand. To act like, “Oh, sorry about that,” and send someone on there way is…is…sad. No compensation? Not that compensation would do anything to give back ten years of your life in a cage. William Gordon _________________________________________________________________ Try Search Survival Kits: Fix up your home and better handle your cash with Live Search! http://imagine-windowslive.com/search/kits/default.aspx?kit=improve&locale=en-US&source=hmtagline From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Wed Oct 25 04:54:11 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Emily Slager) Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 21:54:11 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] Messege for the Board Message-ID: <759c1ffd0610242054v6708f61fmeebd3c1a9f560dc1@mail.gmail.com> ------=_Part_19880_7774807.1161748451034 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Hello! I was in a bad accident when I was about 12 years old. I can fully understand what the scientists in the video ("What Jennifer Saw") were talking about memory that is recoded because I had the same experience. Dr. Strayer said at the end of class that younger children are especially vulnerable to having their memories recoded. I remember only 6 solid snapshot memories from the entire day of the accident. But I have largely filled in the "facts" from that day with things people told me later or with things that would've made sense to happen. It's amazing that when I tell the story of my accident to others, I just fill in information as if I knew it happened, when really I just made up what probably happened. Also, I would be very curious to ask my cousin (who was 19 and with me at the time) to replay the events of my accident. After today's class, I truely wonder if I have all my facts straight, or if she would tell me some things differently. Another interesting thing was that I visited so many doctors after my accident, that they all started to blur together in my memory. All of them spoke of getting me plastic surgery to fix my facial bones, that sometimes I think I remember actually having plastic surgery. The memory is sort of there that it happened. Yet, when I asked my mom about this, she said that it was just talked about a lot, but we never went through with it. I'll never believe another eye-witness testimony again! Emily Slager ------=_Part_19880_7774807.1161748451034 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Hello!
   I was in a bad accident when I was about 12 years old.  I can fully understand what the scientists in the video ("What Jennifer Saw") were talking about memory that is recoded because I had the same experience.  Dr. Strayer said at the end of class that younger children are especially vulnerable to having their memories recoded.  I remember only 6 solid snapshot memories from the entire day of the accident.  But I have largely filled in the "facts" from that day with things people told me later or with things that would've made sense to happen. It's amazing that when I tell the story of my accident to others, I just fill in information as if I knew it happened, when really I just made up what probably happened. 
    Also, I would be very curious to ask my cousin (who was 19 and with me at the time) to replay the events of my accident. After today's class, I truely wonder if I have all my facts straight, or if she would tell me some things differently. 
     Another interesting thing was that I visited so many doctors after my accident, that they all started to blur together in my memory.  All of them spoke of getting me plastic surgery to fix my facial bones, that sometimes I think I remember actually having plastic surgery.  The memory is sort of there that it happened.  Yet, when I asked my mom about this, she said that it was just talked about a lot, but we never went through with it.
    I'll never believe another eye-witness testimony again!
         Emily Slager

------=_Part_19880_7774807.1161748451034-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Thu Oct 26 20:38:26 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Paul Rudd) Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 12:38:26 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Psych3120] Semantic Network In-Reply-To: <200610241803.k9OI34fp020992@topo.csbs.utah.edu> Message-ID: <20061026193826.344.qmail@web34806.mail.mud.yahoo.com> I just love it when I'm talking to a friend about what a cool show CSI is, and about 30 minutes into the conversation we end up talking about weird bodily injuries. It's funny how the mind wonders and finds new topics to discuss. Which is really just the mental semantic network doing its job. I never thought the wondering mind was so well studied and understood. The whole concept of semantic networks and spreading activation seems to make the chaotic mind organized and linked together. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Thu Oct 26 20:54:59 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Katie) Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 13:54:59 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] Being sick = memory loss? Message-ID: <4E9A09E16264024C80C968D5CFCCB7AB017FD3@xeoni.digitalbreakdown.com> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C6F938.9E09C304 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I read this article today that reveal some interesting findings from = recent studies regarding memory loss. The studies were done on mice and = found that certain a nervous system infection that can have a permanent = effect on memory is linked to common viruses. The researchers theorize = that the viruses can cross over into the brain and, over time, cause = memory loss due to bits of brain damage. It needs further study, and = they aren't sure exactly how this happens in the human brain. But it's a = very interesting piece of research, especially because it's begining to = be that time of year when everyone gets sick. May be a good reason to be = more careful about staying fit and healthy- getting sick may be worse = than just a few days of sniffles. Katie Johnson=20 =20 THURSDAY, Oct. 26 (HealthDay News) -- Infection of the central nervous = system by the common cold and other viruses may lead to memory loss late = in life, Mayo Clinic researchers report. "Our study suggests that virus-induced memory loss could accumulate over = the lifetime of an individual and eventually lead to clinical cognitive = memory deficits," neuroscientist Charles L. Howe, corresponding study = author, said in a prepared statement. In studies with mice, his team found that a nervous system infection = linked to a pathogen called picornavirus could have a permanent effect = on memory. The findings are published in the November issue of the = journal Neurobiology of Disease. Picornaviruses are a family of common viruses that include rhinoviruses = associated with the common cold; enteroviruses, linked to respiratory = and gastrointestinal ailments; encephalitis inflammation of the brain; = myocarditis (inflammation of the heart muscle); and meningitis. "We think picornavirus family members cross into the brain and cause a = variety of brain injuries," Howe said. It's not clear just how much brain damage a picornavirus might cause in = humans, but the evidence from this mouse study indicates that it's an = area that warrants further research, the team said. "Our findings suggest that picornavirus infections throughout the = lifetime of an individual may chip away at the cognitive reserve, = increasing the likelihood of detectable cognitive impairments as the = individual ages," the study authors wrote. "Further analysis of such = deficits and exploration of potential therapeutic interventions is = clearly needed," the Mayo group said. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C6F938.9E09C304 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable =0A= =0A= =0A= =0A=
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I read this article today that reveal some interesting findings from = recent studies regarding memory loss. The studies were done on mice and = found that certain a nervous system infection that can have a permanent = effect on memory is linked to common viruses. The researchers theorize = that the viruses can cross over into the brain and, over time, cause = memory loss due to bits of brain damage. It needs further study, and = they aren't sure exactly how this happens in the human brain. But it's a = very interesting piece of research, especially because it's begining to = be that time of year when everyone gets sick. May be a good reason to be = more careful about staying fit and healthy- getting sick may = be worse than just a few days of sniffles.

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THURSDAY, Oct. 26 (HealthDay News) -- Infection of the central = nervous system by the common cold and other viruses may lead to memory = loss late in life, Mayo Clinic researchers report.

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In studies with mice, his team found that a nervous system infection = linked to a pathogen called picornavirus could have a permanent effect = on memory. The findings are published in the November issue of the = journal Neurobiology of Disease.

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"We think picornavirus family members cross into the brain and cause = a variety of brain injuries," Howe said.

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It's not clear just how much brain damage a picornavirus might cause = in humans, but the evidence from this mouse study indicates that it's an = area that warrants further research, the team said.

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------_=_NextPart_001_01C6F938.9E09C304-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Fri Oct 27 01:05:49 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu) Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 19:05:49 -0500 Subject: [Psych3120] memory (Romney Stevens) Message-ID: <20061026190549.mzz1296mwwskwcgw@wm.integrity.com> I too was amazed with the movie on Tuesday and how our memory could be so faulty and subject to change. One thing that I thought was particularly interesting was that the video mentioned that we have a particularly harder time accurately remembering the faces of those of a different race. I can understand how that could be the case because even though someone may grow up in a very diverse place, the faces they see the most are their parents and other relatives. At the important time of the first few years, the brain is distinguishing the differences between faces based on the faces that are the most familiar. Since people especially have a hard time correctly identifying people of a different race, it leads one to believe that not only being lead to believe something, but also familiarity plays a role in the ability to accurately recode memory. From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Fri Oct 27 12:47:32 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu) Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 04:47:32 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Psych3120] semantic memory Message-ID: <20061027114732.15832.qmail@web56508.mail.re3.yahoo.com> --0-228333098-1161949652=:15828 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I though playing scattegories in class was an excellent way to introduce this topic. I knew semantic memory was comprised of the things we know, but it was interesting to learn about how w put it all together. After playing scattegories that teachabel lnaguate comprehener made a lot of sense. Pairing bird and breathes doesn't make a lot of sense but when we put animal in between them- a bird is an animal and animals breather, it's easier to see the connection between the two. Debra --------------------------------- Talk is cheap. Use Yahoo! Messenger to make PC-to-Phone calls. Great rates starting at 1¢/min. --0-228333098-1161949652=:15828 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
I though playing scattegories in class was an excellent way to introduce this topic.  I knew semantic memory was comprised of the things we know, but it was interesting to learn about how w put it all together.  After playing scattegories that teachabel lnaguate comprehener made a lot of sense.  Pairing bird and breathes doesn't make a lot of sense but when we put animal in between them- a bird is an animal and animals breather, it's easier to see the connection between the two.
Debra

Talk is cheap. Use Yahoo! Messenger to make PC-to-Phone calls. Great rates starting at 1¢/min. --0-228333098-1161949652=:15828-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Fri Oct 27 21:34:22 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Keith Radley) Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 14:34:22 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] Semantic Memory Message-ID: --_ef06e9b4-43f6-42b2-9831-972fb9b1b22f_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable The discussion on semantic memory and spreading activation got me thinking = about how people go off on tangents about things and by the time they are d= one, no one can really remember what they were originally talking about. I= find that this happens all the time when I am talking with my friends. No= w that we have discussed how semantic memory functions, I can understand ho= w you can get distracted by tangent information while telling a story, etc.= Our minds have so much information connected to every thing we think abou= t that I am surprised we don't go off on tangents more often! _________________________________________________________________ Get the new Windows Live Messenger! http://get.live.com/messenger/overview= --_ef06e9b4-43f6-42b2-9831-972fb9b1b22f_ Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable The discussion on semantic memory and spreading activation got me thi= nking about how people go off on tangents about things and by the time they= are done, no one can really remember what they were originally talking abo= ut.  I find that this happens all the time when I am talking with my f= riends.  Now that we have discussed how semantic memory functions, I c= an understand how you can get distracted by tangent information while telli= ng a story, etc.  Our minds have so much information connected to ever= y thing we think about that I am surprised we don't go off on tangents more= often!
Get the new Windows Live Messenger! Try it! = --_ef06e9b4-43f6-42b2-9831-972fb9b1b22f_-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Sat Oct 28 00:37:54 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Chad C Moffitt) Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 17:37:54 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] religion and semantic memory Message-ID: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C6FA20.ECED23F0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Semanic memory, along with memory in general, we arlready know is = important for normal functioning. Yet what about belief systems = involving cosmological theory. Religion seems to be a type of "filter" = or conceptual frame-work through which people view the world and explain = why certain phenomena occur. This involves searching for and attaching = meaning to every event that happens in our lives. While some may = attribute success to simple luck, the truly religions individual = attributes it to the will of God or Divine intervention. This religious = "filter" seems explainable using (among other things) semantic = activation theory, which states that concepts (called nodes) are linked = in a network of interrelated concepts such that when one concept is = activated, other related concepts will become active. A person who grew = up in a religious society that stressed the importance of spiritual = ancestoral power would know what rules or taboos to observe in order to = ensure spiritual protection, as well as what happens when such rules are = not followed. When this individual encountered a sacred object, such as = an ancestoral relic or amulet, other related concepts (e.g., ritual = protection from disease and enemies, magic to heal wounds and ensure a = good growing crop, ritual sacralization of food, etc.) may become active = via semantic activation and spreading. This spreading in activation of = related concepts not only puts this person in a state ready to attach = meaning to experience, but also may reinforce his or her world view = simply because they are primed to accept the reality of it. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C6FA20.ECED23F0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable =0A= =0A= =0A= =0A=
Semanic memory, along = with memory in general, we arlready know is important for normal = functioning.  Yet what about belief systems involving cosmological = theory.  Religion seems to be a type of "filter" or conceptual = frame-work through which people view the world and explain why certain = phenomena occur.  This involves searching for and attaching meaning = to every event that happens in our lives.  While some may attribute = success to simple luck, the truly religions individual attributes it to = the will of God or Divine intervention.  This religious "filter" = seems explainable using (among other things) semantic activation theory, = which states that concepts (called nodes) are linked in a network of = interrelated concepts such that when one concept is activated, other = related concepts will become active.  A person who grew up in = a religious society that stressed the importance of spiritual = ancestoral power would know what rules or taboos to observe in = order to ensure spiritual protection, as well as what = happens when such rules are not followed.  When this individual = encountered a sacred object, such as an ancestoral relic or amulet, = other related concepts (e.g., ritual protection from disease and = enemies, magic to heal wounds and ensure a good growing crop, ritual = sacralization of food, etc.) may become active via semantic = activation and spreading.  This spreading in activation of = related concepts not only puts this person in a state ready = to attach meaning to experience, but also may reinforce his or = her world view simply because they are primed to accept the reality = of it.
------_=_NextPart_001_01C6FA20.ECED23F0-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Sat Oct 28 00:52:15 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Ryan Boldrin) Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 16:52:15 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Psych3120] Recall and Foreign languages Message-ID: <20061027235215.26441.qmail@web53611.mail.yahoo.com> I have been thinking about encoding and retrieval of memories. I am learning a foreign language and the format is to teach a new word or phrase. Then have you repeat it once or twice. Then recalit again 10 seconds later. Then a minute after that. and finally 1 more reminder withing a half hour. It make the phrase accessible when you need it. When I read a few words or phrases in Russian out of the book it does not stay unless I force myself to repeat it on the same schedule of recurrences. I will try to recall a word I have only read twice and it is not there for me to say. I remember reading it. But the encoding is not is place for retrieval from long term memory. It faded from short term memory within 15 seconds. It seems to me the research we have heard of in class is reflected in my experience of absorbing a new language. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Get your email and see which of your friends are online - Right on the New Yahoo.com (http://www.yahoo.com/preview) From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Sat Oct 28 07:12:32 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Ariann Beglarian) Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 23:12:32 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Psych3120] What Jennifer THOUGHT she saw.... Message-ID: <20061028061233.88298.qmail@web31601.mail.mud.yahoo.com> The video we watched in class this week was difficult for me to watch. How can it be possible to come face to face with your attacker and not recognize him? Especially considering the degree of effort made to remember his face. I don't see how she could stare into his face and not feel her stomach turn. I actually had to be an "eyewitness" recently (I had to miss the last test review because I was in court). Last December I watched a man "key" another mans car in the trax parking lot by my work. I came out on my break (3 hours later) and the police and owner of the vehicle were standing around the car. I walked over and gave a statement and described the man. I wasn't called in to identify him until last month. None the less, I recognized him (he is a dwarf with flaming red hair...and he hadn't changed much). I've never had a doubt in my mind, and it took less than 10 seconds to pick him out of the lineup. Sure enough, just my presence persuaded the guy to just plead guilty and avoid my testimony. I just don't understand how someone could mis-identify their attacker when so much consideration and attentiveness was put into studying the mans face. Someone made a good point in the class the other day...maybe it would have helped to re-live the situation in the exact environment. Maybe if she had seen him again in the same place she first saw him, could that have helped? Could it have suddenly triggered her memory to combine the man with the environment? It seems impossible...yet obviously, and unfortunately, it does happen. How can such mistakes be avoided? CAN they be avoided? Eyewitness testimony can't be completely mistaken...I remember every detail of the guy who keyed the other guys car. And I wasn't wrong...he decided agains a pre-trial and just confessed the moment he saw me. Its strange how the mind works.... ____________________________________________________________________________________ Get your email and see which of your friends are online - Right on the New Yahoo.com (http://www.yahoo.com/preview) From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Sat Oct 28 17:24:46 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Alisha Christiasnen) Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 09:24:46 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Psych3120] Semantic memory Message-ID: <20061028162446.65903.qmail@web56611.mail.re3.yahoo.com> --0-1130977982-1162052686=:65806 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I have never really heard a lot about semantic memory until this class and = it is interesting how we our mind enables us to be able to retrieve one bit= of information in the midst of all the other information that we have in l= ong term storage. I liked the web example because it helped me to be able t= o understand how the process works and how if we are looking for a certain = type of fish then we are going to look in the information that has to do wi= th fish and the characteristics of the certain fish that we are looking up.= =0A=0A --0-1130977982-1162052686=:65806 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
I have never really heard a lot about semantic memory = until this class and it is interesting how we our mind enables us to be abl= e to retrieve one bit of information in the midst of all the other informat= ion that we have in long term storage. I liked the web example because it h= elped me to be able to understand how the process works and how if we are l= ooking for a certain type of fish then we are going to look in the informat= ion that has to do with fish and the characteristics of the certain fish th= at we are looking up.

--0-1130977982-1162052686=:65806-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Sat Oct 28 23:43:48 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Angela Eve Miller) Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 16:43:48 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] question 1 on the study guide References: <200610281802.k9SI1WFo016965@topo.csbs.utah.edu> Message-ID: <52C6D231DACB0547A90093536839AC3D2E86FF@CAMPUSV4.xds.umail.utah.edu> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C6FAE2.88716EBF Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello All, It has been brought to my attention by someone who was really on top of = studying for the test (I applaud you again!)that they could not find any = information in the lectures or text for question one on the study guide. = This is because it was not covered in class or in the text! Dr. Strayer = decided not to cover it this year in order to cover other material. So = congratulations, you can take one question off of the study guide. Hope = this makes your weekend, or at least next weekend... Eve -----Original Message----- From: psych3120-admin@lists.csbs.utah.edu on behalf of = psych3120-request@lists.csbs.utah.edu Sent: Sat 10/28/2006 12:01 PM To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Subject: Psych3120 digest, Vol 1 #954 - 5 msgs =20 Send Psych3120 mailing list submissions to psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/listinfo.cgi/psych3120 or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to psych3120-request@lists.csbs.utah.edu You can reach the person managing the list at psych3120-admin@lists.csbs.utah.edu When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Psych3120 digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Semantic Memory (Keith Radley) 2. religion and semantic memory (Chad C Moffitt) 3. Recall and Foreign languages (Ryan Boldrin) 4. What Jennifer THOUGHT she saw.... (Ariann Beglarian) 5. Semantic memory (Alisha Christiasnen) --__--__-- Message: 1 From: Keith Radley To: Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 14:34:22 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] Semantic Memory Reply-To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu --_ef06e9b4-43f6-42b2-9831-972fb9b1b22f_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=3D"iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable The discussion on semantic memory and spreading activation got me = thinking =3D about how people go off on tangents about things and by the time they = are d=3D one, no one can really remember what they were originally talking about. = I=3D find that this happens all the time when I am talking with my friends. = No=3D w that we have discussed how semantic memory functions, I can understand = ho=3D w you can get distracted by tangent information while telling a story, = etc.=3D Our minds have so much information connected to every thing we think = abou=3D t that I am surprised we don't go off on tangents more often! _________________________________________________________________ Get the new Windows Live Messenger! http://get.live.com/messenger/overview=3D --_ef06e9b4-43f6-42b2-9831-972fb9b1b22f_ Content-Type: text/html; charset=3D"iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable The discussion on semantic memory and spreading activation got me = thi=3D nking about how people go off on tangents about things and by the time = they=3D are done, no one can really remember what they were originally talking = abo=3D ut.  I find that this happens all the time when I am talking with = my f=3D riends.  Now that we have discussed how semantic memory functions, = I c=3D an understand how you can get distracted by tangent information while = telli=3D ng a story, etc.  Our minds have so much information connected to = ever=3D y thing we think about that I am surprised we don't go off on tangents = more=3D often!
Get the new Windows Live Messenger! Try it! =3D --_ef06e9b4-43f6-42b2-9831-972fb9b1b22f_-- --__--__-- Message: 2 Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 17:37:54 -0600 From: "Chad C Moffitt" To: Subject: [Psych3120] religion and semantic memory Reply-To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=3D_NextPart_001_01C6FA20.ECED23F0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=3D"iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Semanic memory, along with memory in general, we arlready know is =3D important for normal functioning. Yet what about belief systems =3D involving cosmological theory. Religion seems to be a type of "filter" = =3D or conceptual frame-work through which people view the world and explain = =3D why certain phenomena occur. This involves searching for and attaching = =3D meaning to every event that happens in our lives. While some may =3D attribute success to simple luck, the truly religions individual =3D attributes it to the will of God or Divine intervention. This religious = =3D "filter" seems explainable using (among other things) semantic =3D activation theory, which states that concepts (called nodes) are linked = =3D in a network of interrelated concepts such that when one concept is =3D activated, other related concepts will become active. A person who grew = =3D up in a religious society that stressed the importance of spiritual =3D ancestoral power would know what rules or taboos to observe in order to = =3D ensure spiritual protection, as well as what happens when such rules are = =3D not followed. When this individual encountered a sacred object, such as = =3D an ancestoral relic or amulet, other related concepts (e.g., ritual =3D protection from disease and enemies, magic to heal wounds and ensure a = =3D good growing crop, ritual sacralization of food, etc.) may become active = =3D via semantic activation and spreading. This spreading in activation of = =3D related concepts not only puts this person in a state ready to attach = =3D meaning to experience, but also may reinforce his or her world view =3D simply because they are primed to accept the reality of it. ------_=3D_NextPart_001_01C6FA20.ECED23F0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=3D"iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable =3D0A=3D =3D0A=3D =3D0A=3D =3D0A=3D
Semanic memory, = along =3D with memory in general, we arlready know is important for normal =3D functioning.  Yet what about belief systems involving cosmological = =3D theory.  Religion seems to be a type of "filter" or conceptual =3D frame-work through which people view the world and explain why certain = =3D phenomena occur.  This involves searching for and attaching meaning = =3D to every event that happens in our lives.  While some may attribute = =3D success to simple luck, the truly religions individual attributes it to = =3D the will of God or Divine intervention.  This religious "filter" = =3D seems explainable using (among other things) semantic activation theory, = =3D which states that concepts (called nodes) are linked in a network of =3D interrelated concepts such that when one concept is activated, other =3D related concepts will become active.  A person who grew up in = =3D a religious society that stressed the importance of spiritual =3D ancestoral power would know what rules or taboos to observe in = =3D order to ensure spiritual protection, as well as what =3D happens when such rules are not followed.  When this individual =3D encountered a sacred object, such as an ancestoral relic or amulet, =3D other related concepts (e.g., ritual protection from disease and =3D enemies, magic to heal wounds and ensure a good growing crop, ritual =3D sacralization of food, etc.) may become active via semantic =3D activation and spreading.  This spreading in activation of =3D related concepts not only puts this person in a state ready = =3D to attach meaning to experience, but also may reinforce his or = =3D her world view simply because they are primed to accept the reality = =3D of it.
------_=3D_NextPart_001_01C6FA20.ECED23F0-- --__--__-- Message: 3 Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 16:52:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Ryan Boldrin To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Subject: [Psych3120] Recall and Foreign languages Reply-To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu I have been thinking about encoding and retrieval of memories. I am learning a foreign language and the format is to teach a new word or phrase. Then have you repeat it once or twice. Then recalit again 10 seconds later. Then a minute after that. and finally 1 more reminder withing a half hour. It make the phrase accessible when you need it.=20 When I read a few words or phrases in Russian out of the book it does not stay unless I force myself to repeat it on the same schedule of recurrences. I will try to recall a word I have only read twice and it is not there for me to say. I remember reading it. But the encoding is not is place for retrieval from long term memory. It faded from short term memory within 15 seconds. It seems to me the research we have heard of in class is reflected in my experience of absorbing a new language. =20 _________________________________________________________________________= ___________ Get your email and see which of your friends are online - Right on the = New Yahoo.com=20 (http://www.yahoo.com/preview)=20 --__--__-- Message: 4 Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 23:12:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Ariann Beglarian To: discussion forum Subject: [Psych3120] What Jennifer THOUGHT she saw.... Reply-To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu The video we watched in class this week was difficult for me to watch. How can it be possible to come face to face with your attacker and not recognize him?=20 Especially considering the degree of effort made to remember his face. I don't see how she could stare into his face and not feel her stomach turn. I actually had to be an "eyewitness" recently (I had to miss the last test review because I was in court).=20 Last December I watched a man "key" another mans car in the trax parking lot by my work. I came out on my break (3 hours later) and the police and owner of the vehicle were standing around the car. I walked over and gave a statement and described the man. I wasn't called in to identify him until last month. None the less, I recognized him (he is a dwarf with flaming red hair...and he hadn't changed much). I've never had a doubt in my mind, and it took less than 10 seconds to pick him out of the lineup. Sure enough, just my presence persuaded the guy to just plead guilty and avoid my testimony. I just don't understand how someone could mis-identify their attacker when so much consideration and attentiveness was put into studying the mans face. Someone made a good point in the class the other day...maybe it would have helped to re-live the situation in the exact environment. Maybe if she had seen him again in the same place she first saw him, could that have helped? Could it have suddenly triggered her memory to combine the man with the environment? It seems impossible...yet obviously, and unfortunately, it does happen. How can such mistakes be avoided? CAN they be avoided? Eyewitness testimony can't be completely mistaken...I remember every detail of the guy who keyed the other guys car. And I wasn't wrong...he decided agains a pre-trial and just confessed the moment he saw me. Its strange how the mind works.... =20 _________________________________________________________________________= ___________ Get your email and see which of your friends are online - Right on the = New Yahoo.com=20 (http://www.yahoo.com/preview)=20 --__--__-- Message: 5 Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 09:24:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Alisha Christiasnen To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Subject: [Psych3120] Semantic memory Reply-To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu --0-1130977982-1162052686=3D:65806 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=3Dascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I have never really heard a lot about semantic memory until this class = and =3D it is interesting how we our mind enables us to be able to retrieve one = bit=3D of information in the midst of all the other information that we have = in l=3D ong term storage. I liked the web example because it helped me to be = able t=3D o understand how the process works and how if we are looking for a = certain =3D type of fish then we are going to look in the information that has to do = wi=3D th fish and the characteristics of the certain fish that we are looking = up.=3D =3D0A=3D0A --0-1130977982-1162052686=3D:65806 Content-Type: text/html; charset=3Dascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
I have never really heard a lot about semantic = memory =3D until this class and it is interesting how we our mind enables us to be = abl=3D e to retrieve one bit of information in the midst of all the other = informat=3D ion that we have in long term storage. I liked the web example because = it h=3D elped me to be able to understand how the process works and how if we = are l=3D ooking for a certain type of fish then we are going to look in the = informat=3D ion that has to do with fish and the characteristics of the certain fish = th=3D at we are looking up.

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So this week I just wanted to talk a little more about the semantic memory as network theory. I think this theory really just makes perfect sense. When we were playing scattergories in class, it was so hard to think of a word in that category that started with the specific letter, because you were probably going through your networks alphabetically, looking for the letter and the category. It would take up so much time doing it this way, and unless you have a letter and category that bring up a familiar and frequent word in your vocabulary, it's going to be a hard task. It would probably be a lot easier to find a word if you were thinking of other things that might be in the same network as the word, something that would remind you of what you're trying to think of, especially because I was experiencing a lot of tip of the tongue occurrances too. This way you will most likely hit the right word faster, and be able to move on to the next word. The human mind has so many thoughts running through it at one time, because everything you think about, or look at or hear is going to be linked to something else, and make your mind start thinking about that, and that will remind you of something else, etc. Only relevant and significant nodes will be brought up to your short term memory so you're thinking of it currently. It just makes perfect sense! _________________________________________________________________ Get today's hot entertainment gossip http://movies.msn.com/movies/hotgossip?icid=T002MSN03A07001 From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Sun Oct 29 22:37:32 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (JESSE SITTERUD) Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 15:37:32 -0700 Subject: [Psych3120] Memory Message-ID: I always have found reading and learning about memory very interesting. The organization that goes into our memory is unbelievable! Its amazing look at how the memory groups, categorizes, and stores information. The memory is always inputting, retrieving, and sorting information. Like many other processes dealing with the mind and the brain, memory is so complex and interesting. _________________________________________________________________ Add a Yahoo! contact to Windows Live Messenger for a chance to win a free trip! http://www.imagine-windowslive.com/minisites/yahoo/default.aspx?locale=en-us&hmtagline From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Mon Oct 30 02:05:28 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (ryan green) Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 18:05:28 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Psych3120] Memory is Bizarre Message-ID: <20061030020528.2670.qmail@web34314.mail.mud.yahoo.com> --0-290903246-1162173928=:2333 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit A Quick Reflection I¡¦m just sitting here musing over memory and its bizarreness and decided to make this musing this weeks post. So, if memory is to serves in a way as to facilitate a decrease in the likelihood of repeating mistakes, bad behavior etc. and also to serve in a way which should increase the likelihood of repeating successful or appropriate behavior, then why are there so many mistakes repeated over and over again, not only across the span of a single individual¡¦s life, but across an entire history of mankind? Is there something fundamental that we are missing? Is it all up to memory to ¡§remind¡¨ us that this or that behavior is good or bad, or that this or that behavior works or doesn¡¦t work? Or, is it something essentially less passive than that? It seems to me that decreasing the likelihood of repeating mistakes and increasing the likelihood of repeating successes is a much more active process. It is active in the sense that one shouldn¡¦t just expect that because they have made bad decisions etc. that they will necessarily learn from the memory of them and thereby alter their behavior accordingly. It is active in the sense that one must ¡§do¡¨ what they have learned and not just let it passively slide into an episodic slot of non-effect. It is only in doing good that good comes. We can sit and remember or think about all the good and bad we¡¦ve experienced, but that alone will not change behavior for the better. There must be positive action based on those experiences. There must be conscious effort to not allow history to repeat itself in negative ways. Thanks, Ryan Green --------------------------------- Low, Low, Low Rates! Check out Yahoo! Messenger's cheap PC-to-Phone call rates. --0-290903246-1162173928=:2333 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
A Quick Reflection
 
            I¡¦m just sitting here musing over memory and its bizarreness and decided to make this musing this weeks post.
 
            So, if memory is to serves in a way as to facilitate a decrease in the likelihood of repeating mistakes, bad behavior etc. and also to serve in a way which should increase the likelihood of repeating successful or appropriate behavior, then why are there so many mistakes repeated over and over again, not only across the span of a single individual¡¦s life, but across an entire history of mankind? Is there something fundamental that we are missing? Is it all up to memory to ¡§remind¡¨ us that this or that behavior is good or bad, or that this or that behavior works or doesn¡¦t work? Or, is it something essentially less passive than that?
            It seems to me that decreasing the likelihood of repeating mistakes and increasing the likelihood of repeating successes is a much more active process. It is active in the sense that one shouldn¡¦t just expect that because they have made bad decisions etc. that they will necessarily learn from the memory of them and thereby alter their behavior accordingly. It is active in the sense that one must ¡§do¡¨ what they have learned and not just let it passively slide into an episodic slot of non-effect. It is only in doing good that good comes. We can sit and remember or think about all the good and bad we¡¦ve experienced, but that alone will not change behavior for the better. There must be positive action based on those experiences. There must be conscious effort to not allow history to repeat itself in negative ways.
 
Thanks,
Ryan Green

Low, Low, Low Rates! Check out Yahoo! Messenger's cheap PC-to-Phone call rates. --0-290903246-1162173928=:2333-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Mon Oct 30 02:59:40 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (jolene stehlin) Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 19:59:40 -0700 Subject: [Psych3120] (no subject) Message-ID: The Frontline video that we watched in lecture on Tuesday was really interesting. I felt so sorry for the man that was wrongfully convicted and lost 11 years of his life in jail. I'm glad that we have DNA evidence now to help keep innocent people out of jail. I was also glad to hear that there are programs like project innocence that are helping to free innocent people. Lastly, it's important for everyone to have the knowledge about how unreliable "eyewitness" testimony is. _________________________________________________________________ Get today's hot entertainment gossip http://movies.msn.com/movies/hotgossip?icid=T002MSN03A07001 From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Mon Oct 30 04:30:54 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (hailey Woodside) Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 21:30:54 -0700 Subject: [Psych3120] memory Message-ID: I was just wondering if experiancing something really traumatic at a young age effects the memory or not. I work with alot of really young kids who have been abused their whole lifes and who are very emotionally and mentally damaged because of the abuse, but it seems like they are so young that they wouldnt be able to accurately remember what happened to them, yet they are clearly affected by it. So I wonder if it is possible for a very young child to remember an incident of abuse that happened whereas they probably wouldnt remember something out of the ordinary that wasnt emotionally damaging.
"The greatest thing you will ever learn is just to love and be loved in return."
 
 
_________________________________________________________________ Use your PC to make calls at very low rates https://voiceoam.pcs.v2s.live.com/partnerredirect.aspx From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Mon Oct 30 05:54:21 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Paige) Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 00:54:21 -0500 (EST) Subject: [Psych3120] Made up memories Message-ID: <20061030055421.E4576467C7@mprdmxin.myway.com> --MYWAYBOUNDARY_000__0a485e062550dd4579a7de14ebb9589c Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The movie that we watched last Tuesday really made me think about my memories and what could be trusted. Just the other day I was walking around the gate way with a good friend. She saw the fountain and started telling me this story about something she saw the last time she was there. Half way through I stopped her and told her I already knew the story because it was me that was with her. I was convinced that I was there, and I even finished her story. It turns out that I really wasn't there, because she was there with her boyfriend, and had just told me about it the day it had happened. I could tell her with believable detail about what they saw. I was fascinated that my perspective was completely made up. -Paige Baucom _______________________________________________ No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding. Make My Way your home on the Web - http://www.myway.com --MYWAYBOUNDARY_000__0a485e062550dd4579a7de14ebb9589c Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
The movie that we watched last Tuesday really made me think about my memories and what could be trusted. Just the other day I was walking around the gate way with a good friend. She saw the fountain and started telling me this story about something she saw the last time she was there. Half way through I stopped her and told her I already knew the story because it was me that was with her. I was convinced that I was there, and I even finished her story. It turns out that I really wasn't there, because she was there with her boyfriend, and had just told me about it the day it had happened. I could tell her with believable detail about what they saw. I was fascinated that my perspective was completely made up.
-Paige Baucom



No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding.
Make My Way your home on the Web - http://www.myway.com --MYWAYBOUNDARY_000__0a485e062550dd4579a7de14ebb9589c-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Mon Oct 30 06:24:19 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Kasey lundgren) Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 22:24:19 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Psych3120] modes posting Message-ID: <20061030062419.68757.qmail@web33011.mail.mud.yahoo.com> --0-878938842-1162189459=:68542 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit many times i look back on my memories and wonder if they happened as i remember them. I always tell my mom about memories and she always says "that's didn't happened " or it didn't happen like that. I sometimes mix my own experiences up with stories i heard or dreams i had when i was little. i wonder if something traumatic happens to you if you could block it from your memory or make that memory go away. I have seen the video about the rape victim before and everytime i see it it astonishes me how certain she was of the situation and how wrong she ended up being. I felt bad that afterall of that she still couldn't talk to him or even apologize. This story makes me wonder how i'll react if i am ever on a jury where eye witness's are involved. --------------------------------- Check out the New Yahoo! Mail - Fire up a more powerful email and get things done faster. --0-878938842-1162189459=:68542 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
many times i look back on my memories and wonder if they happened as i remember
them. I always tell my mom about memories and she always says "that's didn't
happened " or it didn't happen like that. I sometimes mix my own experiences up with
stories i heard or dreams i had when i was little. i wonder if something traumatic happens to you if you could block it from your memory or make that memory
go away. I have seen the video about the rape victim before and everytime i see it
it astonishes me how certain she was of the situation and how wrong she ended up being. I felt bad that afterall of that she still couldn't talk to him or even apologize.
This story makes me wonder how i'll react if i am ever on a jury where eye witness's are involved.

Check out the New Yahoo! Mail - Fire up a more powerful email and get things done faster. --0-878938842-1162189459=:68542-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Mon Oct 30 16:42:40 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Kevin Mangum) Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 08:42:40 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Psych3120] memory Message-ID: <20061030164241.14061.qmail@web52603.mail.yahoo.com> --0-1453682069-1162226560=:12041 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I found this article that talks about using your whole mind as a memory tool. www.mindtools.com Using Your Whole Mind To Remember The key idea is that by coding information using vivid mental images, you can reliably code both information and the structure of information. And because the images are vivid, they are easy to recall when you need them. The techniques explained later on in this section show you how to code information vividly, using stories, strong mental images, familiar journeys, and so on. Use positive, pleasant images. Your brain often blocks out unpleasant ones. Use vivid, colorful, sense-laden images - these are easier to remember than drab ones. Use all your senses to code information or dress up an image. Remember that your mnemonic can contain sounds, smells, tastes, touch, movements and feelings as well as pictures.Give your image three dimensions, movement and space to make it more vivid. You can use movement either to maintain the flow of association, or to help you to remember actions. Exaggerate the size of important parts of the image Use humor! Funny or peculiar things are easier to remember than normal ones. Similarly rude rhymes are very difficult to forget! --------------------------------- Want to start your own business? Learn how on Yahoo! Small Business. --0-1453682069-1162226560=:12041 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
I found this article that talks about using your whole mind as a memory tool.
www.mindtools.com
Using Your Whole Mind To Remember
The key idea is that by coding information using vivid mental images, you can reliably code both information and the structure of information. And because the images are vivid, they are easy to recall when you need them. The techniques explained later on in this section show you how to code information vividly, using stories, strong mental images, familiar journeys, and so on. Use positive, pleasant images. Your brain often blocks out unpleasant ones. Use vivid, colorful, sense-laden images - these are easier to remember than drab ones. Use all your senses to code information or dress up an image. Remember that your mnemonic can contain sounds, smells, tastes, touch, movements and feelings as well as pictures.Give your image three dimensions, movement and space to make it more vivid. You can use movement either to maintain the flow of association, or to help you to remember actions. Exaggerate the size of important parts of the image Use humor! Funny or peculiar things are easier to remember than normal ones. Similarly rude rhymes are very difficult to forget!

Want to start your own business? Learn how on Yahoo! Small Business. --0-1453682069-1162226560=:12041-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Mon Oct 30 18:50:43 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Kari Johnson) Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 11:50:43 -0700 Subject: [Psych3120] thought of the day. . . Message-ID: <10F0A00DF2B1C141ACE8EADC2FBC3641015430BC@mail.sa.utah.edu> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C6FC54.4DA83FD4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I think that semantic memory is quite interesting. It is incredible how we have conversations and get anything done-with all the crazy thoughts that are always going through our minds. I guess I didn't really realize how many thoughts our minds have at any particular moment.=20 =20 -Kari Johnson-Williams =20 Kari Johnson Executive Assistant Associated Students of the University of Utah 801-581-2788(o) 801-502-7357(c) 801-581-6882(f) =20 ------_=_NextPart_001_01C6FC54.4DA83FD4 Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

I think that semantic memory is quite interesting. It = is incredible how we have conversations and get anything done—with = all the crazy thoughts that are always going through our minds. I guess I = didn’t really realize how many thoughts our minds have at any particular = moment.

 

-Kari Johnson-Williams

 

Kari Johnson

Executive Assistant

Associated Students of the University of = Utah

801-581-2788(o)

801-502-7357(c)

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------_=_NextPart_001_01C6FC54.4DA83FD4-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Mon Oct 30 18:01:17 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Becca Vrabel) Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 18:01:17 +0000 Subject: [Psych3120] memory Message-ID: It is very interesting to me how people's memory can be affected. My father was recently very sick and is now recovering. The only thing that seems to be lagging is his memory. Every once in a while he will completely forget what he was talking about. This is very scary to me because he has always been very intelligent and on point. No one has been able to find the specific area in his brain that has been affected. Supposedly it is due to the huge doses of medicine that he recieved. Also, while people are in ICU they are administered something that will totally block their memory. It is called the milk of amnesia or something. I found that to be very interesting! _________________________________________________________________ Get today's hot entertainment gossip http://movies.msn.com/movies/hotgossip?icid=T002MSN03A07001 From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Mon Oct 30 21:10:24 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Jake Andreason) Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 14:10:24 -0700 Subject: [Psych3120] (no subject) Message-ID: I thought last weeks lecture on semantic memory was pretty interesting. The different models representing the way this information is processed in particular really seamed to be accurate. It's kind of amazing if you really stop and think about how many processes go on in your head when your trying to remember information. One thought leads to a possible six or seven others just to get an example of some object in a category. I am kind of interested in the scattegories game we played though. I have played this with my family and theres always one person who seams to do really well at it. It always makes me wonder how they can process that information so fast to come up with answeres. _________________________________________________________________ Add a Yahoo! contact to Windows Live Messenger for a chance to win a free trip! http://www.imagine-windowslive.com/minisites/yahoo/default.aspx?locale=en-us&hmtagline From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Tue Oct 31 01:28:07 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (tucker voss) Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 18:28:07 -0700 Subject: [Psych3120] (no subject) Message-ID: I thought that the lecture on semantic memory was very interesting. It was interesting to see how we recognize certain things, and depending on what those things are will help determine what our next thought will be. I didn’t know that all our thoughts are linked together and that the info you are trying to get must follow a pathway that is linked to other info of similar characteristics. It is amazing how fast our brain can go through all of this to process information. _________________________________________________________________ Stay in touch with old friends and meet new ones with Windows Live Spaces http://clk.atdmt.com/MSN/go/msnnkwsp0070000001msn/direct/01/?href=http://spaces.live.com/spacesapi.aspx?wx_action=create&wx_url=/friends.aspx&mkt=en-us From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Tue Oct 31 02:53:11 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Sabreena Khan) Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 18:53:11 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Psych3120] just a couple comments... Message-ID: <20061031025311.40640.qmail@web55409.mail.re4.yahoo.com> in thinking about "what jennifer saw," i can't help but feel overwhelmed at the disregard that our system (and other systems, as well) have for science and all its offerings. criminals should, most definitely, be put away, however without proper evidence, how are we to tell? it's just scary to think that our justice system puts so much weight on what people "remember," and those memories could very well be tainted. so many people's lives rest on the faultiness of human recollection, and it is sad. also. (on a lighter note..) i have played scattergories before, and i had so much fun. even at the time, i understood the difficulty of the task, but had no idea why it was so hard. i wonder, did the inventor of the game realize what s/he was doing when s/he created the game? did s/he have the understanding of the structure of semantic memory and thus create that mind stimulating game?? sabreena khan ____________________________________________________________________________________ Get your email and see which of your friends are online - Right on the New Yahoo.com (http://www.yahoo.com/preview) From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Tue Oct 31 03:08:29 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Dan Laxman) Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 03:08:29 +0000 Subject: [Psych3120] Semantic network and problem solving In-Reply-To: <200610301911.k9UJB1hW013493@topo.csbs.utah.edu> Message-ID: Semantic network and problem solving I’ve been thinking about the fact that we organize and connect related information in our brain in semantic networks. I think it’s really interesting that we do that, but I find it even more interesting to think about how that can benefit us. When we think about something, spreading activation in our brain brings up similar ideas and related concepts. This process is very beneficial for us as we are working towards the solution of a problem. As we consider the problem and possible solutions, are mind is bringing up related concepts and ideas that could potentially be used to solve the problem. Sometimes I have even been aware of this happening. I was recently faced with a problem. I started to think about it, and an idea “came into my mind” that seemed appropriate to solving the problem. So, it seems to me that spreading activation helped me find a solution. -Dan Laxman From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Tue Oct 31 03:44:58 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Natalie Mitchell) Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:44:58 -0700 Subject: [Psych3120] Modes Message-ID:
Hey Eve- Thanks for getting back to me about my test score. I hope this is not late, I do not remember if the cut off is Sunday of Monday night.
 Learning about semantic memory and reading Chapter 7, made me realize the importance of environment and cues in memory retrieval, I never realized what a profound effect environment has on memory encoding and retrieval, and how important cues are to retrieval. I think a great example of this is dreaming.  More often than not, I have very vivid dreams, often to my determent. Yet, it often takes a specific cue to make these dreams come alive. There have been moments when I walk up one step and it is like a flood of information just comes right at me. What I find amazing about this process is that it takes only a tiny stimulus to evoke all these memories. Dreams are particularly interesting in that they can be so novel, it is like a single cue can give you glimpse into another world. I also think that dreams are so fascinating because they are spontaneous constructions, it is like our brain have been put on a semantic sort of shuffle. It makes you wonder what you are retaining and why.  

Get today's hot entertainment gossip From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Tue Oct 31 04:22:40 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Kim Endersen) Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:22:40 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Psych3120] Fighting and Memory Message-ID: <20061031042240.85568.qmail@web35302.mail.mud.yahoo.com> --0-1985258029-1162268560=:85046 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit When we were talking in class last week about the role emotion plays in memory, I couldn't help but think about fighting. I know odd right. When I get into an argument with a loved one, it brings up all these other issues I have with them from the past and it just makes me angrier. Like I got mad at my sister because we were supposed to go the movies together, but she bailed on the last minute. I was chewing her out for not going and I told her that she always does this to me and all these past instances were she's done the same thing came rushing back. I could have named like 6 or 7 instances. So I'm thinking that when we were arguing I was in the same emotional state I had been in in a similar situation and it provided me the right retrieval cue and I remembered all those past instances. I hope that makes sense. --------------------------------- Low, Low, Low Rates! Check out Yahoo! Messenger's cheap PC-to-Phone call rates. --0-1985258029-1162268560=:85046 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit When we were talking in class last week about the role emotion plays in memory, I couldn't help but think about fighting. I know odd right.  When I get into an argument with a loved one, it brings up all these other issues I have with them from the past and it just makes me angrier.  Like I got mad at my sister because we were supposed to go the movies together, but she bailed on the last minute.  I was chewing her out for not going and I told her that she always does this to me and all these past instances were she's done the same thing came rushing back.  I could have named like 6 or 7 instances.  So I'm thinking that when we were arguing I was in the same emotional state I had been in in a similar situation and it provided me the right retrieval cue and I remembered all those past instances.  I hope that makes sense.

Low, Low, Low Rates! Check out Yahoo! Messenger's cheap PC-to-Phone call rates. --0-1985258029-1162268560=:85046-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Tue Oct 31 06:40:40 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Brett Larsen) Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 23:40:40 -0700 Subject: [Psych3120] 12 angry men Message-ID: The film we watched in class this week about how you cannot really trust eyewitness testimony made me think of a movie that we watched in my social psychology class called "12 Angry Men". The entire movie takes place inside a jury deliberation room and the 12 jury members must decide weather a boy killed his father or not. All but one of the men are quick to convict the boy based purely on eyewitness testimony from several different people, but the one dissenting juror is able to point out the weaknesses in the case. It is a really good movie and i think it has to do a lot with what we are learning right now. I recommend it to anyone who is interested in seeing more on how eyewitness can be wrong, or if you just want to watch a good movie. Brett Larsen _________________________________________________________________ Use your PC to make calls at very low rates https://voiceoam.pcs.v2s.live.com/partnerredirect.aspx From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Tue Oct 31 06:46:12 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Claudia Guarderas) Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 23:46:12 -0700 Subject: [Psych3120] (no subject) Message-ID: ------=_Part_2486_13719501.1162277172499 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline People often say one must see something to believe it but after seeing the Frontline video on Tuesday it would seem that one must first believe something in order to see it. It's amusing to see just how powerful our brain and our memory both are. It's capable of storing innumerable amounts of information as well as make up experiences that never occurred and store them as memories as well. I also wonder how memory is affected by our dreams. I can recall a specific time when I had an argument with my sister because of something I thought had happened however after thinking about it for quite a while it finally clicked that I had in fact dreamed the whole situation. ------=_Part_2486_13719501.1162277172499 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline

People often say one must see something to believe it but after seeing the Frontline video on Tuesday it would seem that one must first believe something in order to see it. It's amusing to see just how powerful our brain and our memory both are. It's capable of storing innumerable amounts of information as well as make up experiences that never occurred and store them as memories as well. I also wonder how memory is affected by our dreams. I can recall a specific time when I had an argument with my sister because of something I thought had happened however after thinking about it for quite a while it finally clicked that I had in fact dreamed the whole situation.

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I, unfortunately, experienced firsthand how closely memory is connected to emotion tonight when I accidentally stumbled upon several old emails from my ex-boyfriend. As I read through them again, I instantly started experiencing these floods of intense emotion that tied back to exactly the way I felt when I read those emails initially. I had forgotten them, until I had this reminder within the same context, on the same computer, in the same place, and the past emotion re-surfaced. I've decided this whole memory based on emotion thing is a blessing and a curse. And sometimes those curses definitely feel like black magic. End rant.

From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Tue Oct 31 14:28:02 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Jacob Hansen) Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 07:28:02 -0700 Subject: [Psych3120] weekly e mail Message-ID:


i am having a good time reading the book in preparation for the test.  i have always been so interested in how memory works i have always wondered how the memories we have are precessed and then stored.  what amazes me the most is i will not be thinking about a certain event or even person and then i will be in a specific environment and all of these memories will start flooding back.  for example the classic cant remember a persons name, and then a week later be driving down the road and see the persons name on a home broker sign and i remembered the guys name that i was thinking about a week earlier.




JAKE
From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Tue Oct 31 14:38:11 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Darin Mano) Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 07:38:11 -0700 Subject: [Psych3120] Memory Stores Message-ID: <3b4d82fa0610310638o384d6a4fsd876de7c4c5c8dbc@mail.gmail.com> This chapter is really interesting because of what we are studying. I took a linguistics class as one of my generals and we learned a lot about how we save words in out minds. We learned it in the context of linking meanings to words. The words need to be saved both phontticallly and with spelling. Then, the way that we remember the meaning is through categorizing them. But, I forget exactly how the categories work. I remember that it was similar to what we are studying now. I also remember that there are a number of theories. Furthermore that the theory that seems most intuitive on the surface is not actually likely to be true. I also remember that, simila to what we are learning, there are ways that each of the thories have been shown to be true as well as false. It seems odd to even study something that has so many different views. I think that it is clearly an important thing. It just seems so hard to really prove anything to be true. Maybe the way our memory works is through all of the different thoughts. Maybe that is why our minds are so powerful and efficient. Maybe it is because we use more than one simple system to process and remember information. -- Darin M. Mano From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Tue Oct 31 19:19:17 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Emily Slager) Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 12:19:17 -0700 Subject: [Psych3120] Message for the Board Message-ID: <759c1ffd0610311119l2c76a468j26803f93939637b3@mail.gmail.com> ------=_Part_14268_4951861.1162322357866 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline A few thoughts from today's lesson: First, as a senior Psychology Major, I have heard my fair share about causes for depression. Although, the Network Model does not explain a cause for depression, it does help to explain why depressed people may get into a "slump". For cognitive reasons, a person may have modes activated that have to do with depressing thoughts. For every thing they think about (grades, body image, likableness) the links that get activated are different than those of a "healthy" brain. They may RELATE words such as "nice" to "not me" and "other people, except me". Whereas a healthy mind may have themselves linked to that mode. Secondly, I didn't understand what implicit memory was until the end of class today with the Star Example. It's so interesting to me what Classical Conditioning can do for a person! There are many things that I must do, but until today I never realized that I don't remember why I do them or where I learned it from. There are many things that I was never explicitly taught, but I have somehow learned it over time. Most of these things allow me to be "normal" in our American culture. ------=_Part_14268_4951861.1162322357866 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline A few thoughts from today's lesson:

   First, as a senior Psychology Major, I have heard my fair share about causes for depression.  Although, the Network Model does not explain a cause for depression, it does help to explain why depressed people may get into a "slump".  For cognitive reasons, a person may have modes activated that have to do with depressing thoughts.  For every thing they think about (grades, body image, likableness) the links that get activated are different than those of a "healthy" brain.  They may RELATE words such as "nice" to "not me" and "other people, except me".  Whereas a healthy mind may have themselves linked to that mode. 
    Secondly, I didn't understand what implicit memory was until the end of class today with the Star Example.  It's so interesting to me what Classical Conditioning can do for a person!  There are many things that I must do, but until today I never realized that I don't remember why I do them or where I learned it from.  There are many things that I was never explicitly taught, but I have somehow learned it over time.  Most of these things allow me to be "normal" in our American culture.
        
------=_Part_14268_4951861.1162322357866-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Tue Oct 31 20:49:08 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Benjamin Divine) Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 12:49:08 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Psych3120] Semantic Networks: Universal or Experience Oriented? Message-ID: <20061031204908.22569.qmail@web42110.mail.mud.yahoo.com> --0-1891311656-1162327748=:22144 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit As we further discussed the semantic network models of memory today, I have come to the conclusion (which wasn't really out on a limb) that there are universal aspects of this memory network as well as experience oriented. For example, in class we continue to talk of the nodes "bird" and "robin." Now, when the word "robin" is spoken, I think it is pretty safe to say that most people, if not all who are capable, associate this word with "bird" (among other things). However, another example we continue to use in class is "fire truck" and "red." My father was a firefighter for 25 years (who has just recently retired) for Murray City FD. During his entire career he rode in Yellow fire trucks, not red! All of Murray City FD use yellow fire trucks so when I think of the word "fire truck," the word "red" is not nearly as activated as the word "yellow" for me. I believe that our neural networks are composed of a majority of what we have personally experienced in life or have heard or seen in combination with things that are universally known or accepted. --------------------------------- Check out the New Yahoo! Mail - Fire up a more powerful email and get things done faster. --0-1891311656-1162327748=:22144 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit As we further discussed the semantic network models of memory today, I have come to the conclusion (which wasn't really out on a limb) that there are universal aspects of this memory network as well as experience oriented.  For example, in class we continue to talk of the nodes "bird" and "robin." Now, when the word "robin" is spoken, I think it is pretty safe to say that most people, if not all who are capable, associate this word with "bird" (among other things).  However, another example we continue to use in class is "fire truck" and "red." My father was a firefighter for 25 years (who has just recently retired) for Murray City FD.  During his entire career he rode in Yellow fire trucks, not red!  All of Murray City FD use yellow fire trucks so when I think of the word "fire truck," the word "red" is not nearly as activated as the word "yellow" for me.  I believe that our neural networks are composed of a majority of what we have personally experienced in life or have heard or seen in combination with things that are universally known or accepted. 

Check out the New Yahoo! Mail - Fire up a more powerful email and get things done faster. --0-1891311656-1162327748=:22144-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Tue Oct 31 23:20:55 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu) Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 17:20:55 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] semantic priming (Romney Stevens) Message-ID: <20061031172055.gi036ndc04wgcgkc@wm.integrity.com> I found the information we have learned about semantic priming to be very interesting. For some reason it made me remember about Dr. Strayer saying that there is no such thing as subliminal messages. I can see why subliminal messages wouldn't work because there isn't enough time for the person to process the information, but I guess this is as close as it gets to subliminal messages. We aren't aware that seeing something will help us process a related stimulus, since it is a automatic process. Also, it only takes a fraction of a second to occur, like we saw from the study that we reviewed today in class. The only thing is, it can't really be considered subliminal, because the first object must be recognized for the priming to work. From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Sun Oct 1 03:51:11 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Jake Andreason) Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 20:51:11 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] (no subject) Message-ID: After listening to tuesdays lecture I realized that I have seen a lot of people do wierd things. I know that mode errors are something that people do naturally, but if you are the one who does it you always feel so stupid afterwards. Just as an example my freind was telling me about how one morning she put her makeup on and then washed her face. So pretty much taking off all the makeup she just spent all morning on. She really wasn't happy with herself after she realized what she had done too. I've personally done dumb things like after making a sandwhich I put the bread in the fridge and the lunchmeat in the pantry. The lapses can have a tendency to scare the crap out of you though. The worst one is when you are really tired before a class and you find yourself zoning out then come back to realize you somehow got to class and sat down without realizing you were even at school yet. From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Sun Oct 1 20:15:06 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Kyle Murdock) Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2006 13:15:06 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] Agnosia.. In-Reply-To: <200610011802.k91I23X5015974@topo.csbs.utah.edu> Message-ID:
I just have to say that I feel really bad for people that have any type of agnosia that we have discussed in class. To them the world must be a very unfamiliar place. If you didn't know what something was or how to identify it, how would you go through everyday life? I would suspect that most of these people could not have jobs and they would need someone around them most of the time. What would television look like to them? I hope I never have to live with that problem.
 
A question that has been raised in my mind is that I would assume that these people have to use more bottom up processing than top down processing. This would be because they cant name what something is. There is also a problem with this because they can't piece things together. Can I conclude that both top-down and bottom up are useless to them? Thanks,
 
Kyle Murdock
From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Sun Oct 1 21:57:41 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Jacob Hansen) Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2006 14:57:41 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] weekly posting Message-ID:

First, I would like to make reference to this submission to the board.


"I agree with the Resource Model.  I think there are a few activities that
can be done together.  For instance, I could easily study with orquestra
music on.  And I can chew gum and type (like I'm doing right now).  And even
some more complex things like sing and vacuum.  But until our lecture last
week, I was convinced that I could do something as "dual task demanding" as
talk on a cell phone and ______. Fill in the blank.  Drive, walk, read,
clean the house.  But I completely realize that a cell phone conversation
takes up a lot of my brain's energy.  I stall while cleaning, I make the
wrong turns while driving, and I don't notice anyone around me when I
walk... if I'm on a cell phone.  Another thing I learned:  I did the
Pedestrian and Cellphones Experiment.  And I walked much slower when I was
on a cell phone!  By about 25% .  I was amazed!
           Emily"

So I after reading,  some of the simmilar activities that i perform at work, one problem is at times I am operating heavy machinery.  Since learning about the inhibatory effects of the cell phone I have made a commitment to myself not to perform the same "dual task" combination ever again.  I also notice how there becomes like a glass of water full is 100% devotion to a task, to add more tasks is like adding additional glasses,  so if i want to talk on the cell phone and drive i have to poour some of the water into the other glass, one thing i have been having difficulty with though, is though we learn to drive "very well" and can dual task while driving, personal examples include: writting addresses down on a piece of paper while talking on the cell phone while driving, there have been many times where i have actually had to look for a pen. i guess what i am getting at is though we do attend to other tasks while driving we should not, in class i heard the number one priority should be on the road, but sadly it is not. As technology continues to be packed into our tiny portable communication devices i fear the consequences that could come to people who opperate a motor vehicle and attempt to use these devices.


JAKE
From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Sun Oct 1 22:26:33 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (jolene stehlin) Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2006 15:26:33 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] (no subject) Message-ID: The other day I came into my room and meant to pick my cell phone up off the bed and set my glass of water down on my night stand. Well, I did pick up my cell phone, but then I set my glass of water on the bed instead of the nightstand. As I was sopping up the water, I remembered how we talked about these kinds of mistakes or mode errors, in lecture last Tuesday. It's always fascinating to learn that little errors like these that happen to everyone all the time actually have names and have been studies. Since lecture I have been noticing them more and more. _________________________________________________________________ Find a local pizza place, music store, museum and more…then map the best route! http://local.live.com From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Mon Oct 2 01:08:30 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Becca Vrabel) Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 00:08:30 +0000 Subject: [Psych3120] cell phones/drinking and driving Message-ID: I know how impaired people can get when they are driving and talking on the phone. When someone drinks and drives, the amount of alcohol they have consumed affects them differently than the same amount of alcohol would affect a different person. There aren't different affects/levels of driving and talking on the phone. I would be interested to see how the studies we've learned about would play out in the real world. (I know that is impossible to find out...) Lexi was right when she mentioned how differently people act in a real life situation rather than in a simulator. People simply don't pay nearly as close of attention to the road if there is no one monitoring them on a computer. In real life, they would be playing music and be much more relaxed and inattentive. _________________________________________________________________ Get today's hot entertainment gossip http://movies.msn.com/movies/hotgossip From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Mon Oct 2 02:38:24 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (hailey Woodside) Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2006 19:38:24 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] human factors Message-ID:

I just read the five short stories that go with the human factors lecture we had in class. I thought it was really interesting that when you read each of the stories, it is easy to pinpoint each time a mistake was made in a serious of mistakes that ultimately ended up leading to something really unfortunate happening in each story. It is interesting, and also (in three of the stories) really tragic that such simple human errors led to people dying...when they easily could have been prevented by a more intelligent design of the technology the people were using. The one thing that I found sort of nerve racking in the 'set phasers on stun' story was that it seems like computers programs also tend to have unforseen glitches...it's scarey when you think about all the times we use computers in our lives now, because there are so many things that can happen to cause a huge problem no one ever thought of. Human Factors has never been something that I was too interested in but after reading those stories I can really see the importance of it!

Hailey


"The greatest thing you will ever learn is just to love and be loved in return."
 
 
From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Mon Oct 2 04:22:46 2006 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (William Gordon) Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2006 21:22:46 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] Thanks, Eve In-Reply-To: <200609301802.k8UI23Dt000813@topo.csbs.utah.edu> Message-ID: I liked the readings about system design and human error. I bet crazy freak accidents like the one in Set Phasers on Stun happen all the time throughout the world. We might here of them from time to time, but I bet it happens every single day. I think hospitals are scary. I don't like 'em because we all know that humans are fallible creatures, and I don't like trusdting my health to someone that might not read a monitor right, and then I never wake up. But I don't base my life around it because I know that I'm much more likely to die trying to navigate the University's road system. Anyway, I bet you were glad you took the time to read this. One last thing: Eve, you were very helpful on Thursday with the review. Thanks. >From: psych3120-request@lists.csbs.utah.edu >Reply-To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu >To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu >Subject: Psych3120 digest, Vol 1 #922 - 6 msgs >Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 12:02:03 -0600 (MDT) > >Send Psych3120 mailing list submissions to > psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu > >To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/listinfo.cgi/psych3120 >or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > psych3120-request@lists.csbs.utah.edu > >You can reach the person managing the list at > psych3120-admin@lists.csbs.utah.edu > >When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific >than "Re: Contents of Psych3120 digest..." > > >Today's Topics: > > 1. Slips, lapses and mode errors (Keith Radley) > 2. Stroop Tests (Katie) > 3. Honda making cars that can "see" (Katie) > 4. Message for the Board (Emily Slager) > 5. Anesthesiology (JESSE SITTERUD) > 6. intattentional blindness in action! (Sabreena Khan) > >--__--__-- > >Message: 1 >From: "Keith Radley" >To: "psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu" >Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 15:08:30 -0600 >Subject: [Psych3120] Slips, lapses and mode errors >Reply-To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu > >--_2851b376-e067-4f61-a0e8-e8904177b6d7_ >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > >When we talked about slips, lapses and mode errors, I recognized that I >com= >mit some of these from time to time, but I didn't think that it would be a >= >very common occurrence. But since the lecture, I have become more aware >of= > lots of the things that I do automatically or mistakenly. A prime >example= > of a slip happened this morning when I rolled out of bed. I went >straight= > to shower and then to eat breakfast, as I normally do. As I was eating, >I= > looked the window and noticed it looked darker than usual. When I >checked= > the time, it was only 3 o'clock-my first class begins at 9. I have such >a= > routine in the morning that I didn't even check the time when I woke up. >= >Instead, I proceeded to get ready for the day. I guess that slips, lapses >= >and mode errors may be more common than I thought at first! >_________________________________________________________________ >Share your special moments by uploading 500 photos per month to Windows >Liv= >e Spaces=20 >http://clk.atdmt.com/MSN/go/msnnkwsp0070000001msn/direct/01/?href=3Dhttp://= >www.get.live.com/spaces/features= > >--_2851b376-e067-4f61-a0e8-e8904177b6d7_ >Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > >=0A= >=0A= >=0A= >=0A= >When we talked about slips, lapses and mode errors, I recognized >that= > I commit some of these from time to time, but I didn't think that it >would= > be a very common occurrence.  But since the lecture, I have >bec= >ome more aware of lots of the things that I do automatically or >mistakenly.= >  A prime example of a slip happened this morning when I rolled out >of= > bed.  I went straight to shower and then to eat breakfast, as I >norma= >lly do.  As I was eating, I looked the window and noticed it looked >da= >rker than usual.  When I checked the time, it was only 3 o'clock-my >fi= >rst class begins at 9.  I have such a routine in the morning >tha= >t I didn't even check the time when I woke up.  Instead, I proceeded >t= >o get ready for the day.  I guess that slips, lapses and mode errors >m= >ay be more common than I thought at first!
Share >y= >our special moments by uploading 500 photos per month to Windows Live >Space= >s href=3D'http://clk.atdmt.com/MSN/go/msnnkwsp0070000001msn/direct/01/?= >href=3Dhttp://www.get.live.com/spaces/features ' target=3D'_new'>Share >it!<= >/a>=0A= >= > >--_2851b376-e067-4f61-a0e8-e8904177b6d7_-- > >--__--__-- > >Message: 2 >Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 15:33:03 -0600 >From: "Katie" >To: >Subject: [Psych3120] Stroop Tests >Reply-To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu > >This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > >------_=_NextPart_001_01C6E40E.D81B1E2E >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > >I missed last week but wanted to share my experiences with Stroop tests. = >Some of you might be familiar with Stroop tests, as I am, because of = >Nintendo's "Brain Age" game. I wanted to recommend it because it's fun = >and supposed to be good for exercising the brain, and it relates to this = >class. The game provides tests to calculate your current "brain age" and = >provides math, logic and reading skills building exercises to improve = >cognitive functioning. The game is based on the work of Dr. Ryuta = >Kawashima, a prominent Japanese neuroscientist. >It includes the Stroop test with the words of colors shown in different = >colors. No matter how many times I do it, it's so difficult to train the = >mind to separate the word and the color of the word. I can almost feel = >my brain stopping and having to think about it. The only way I've found = >to increase the score on this test is to not look directly at the word, = >so I am not distracted by what the letters spell out, I just see the = >color of the letters and can speak it faster because my brain only has = >to do process the one thing instead of both. =20 >=20 >Katie Johnson > >------_=_NextPart_001_01C6E40E.D81B1E2E >Content-Type: text/html; > charset="iso-8859-1" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > >=0A= >charset=3Dunicode">=0A= >=0A= >=0A= >
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I missed last week but wanted to share my = >experiences with Stroop tests. Some of you might be familiar with Stroop = >tests, as I am, because of Nintendo's "Brain Age" game. I wanted to = >recommend it because it's fun and supposed to be good for exercising the = >brain, and it relates to this class. The game provides tests to = >calculate your current "brain age" and provides math, logic and reading = >skills building exercises to improve cognitive functioning. The game is = >based on the work of Dr. Ryuta Kawashima, a prominent Japanese = >neuroscientist.
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It includes the Stroop test with the words of colors = >shown in different colors. No matter how many times I do it, it's so = >difficult to train the mind to separate the word and the color of the = >word. I can almost feel my brain stopping and having to think about it. = >The only way I've found to increase the score on this test is to not = >look directly at the word, so I am not distracted by what the letters = >spell out, I just see the color of the letters and can speak it faster = >because my brain only has to do process the one thing instead of both. = > 
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Katie Johnson
>------_=_NextPart_001_01C6E40E.D81B1E2E-- > >--__--__-- > >Message: 3 >Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 15:37:07 -0600 >From: "Katie" >To: >Subject: [Psych3120] Honda making cars that can "see" >Reply-To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu > >This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > >------_=_NextPart_001_01C6E40F.69D47914 >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > >I came across this article today and thought it was appropriate to share = >with the class. I thought it was interesting, and I remembered in the = >textbook the author mentioned how some things could never be done by = >computers, and one of those things was drive, because they could never = >be able to "see" and process like people can. It's pretty amazing what = >they can do though: >Katie Johnson >=20 >=20 >Honda wants to give its cars depth perception. The automotive giant has = >quietly put $5 million over three years into Canesta, which specializes = >in chips that help computers make sense out of 3D spaces. The company's = >best known product is a virtual keyboard: Users plunk down their fingers = >on the laser light images resembling a keyboard and their finger = >movements are translated to keystrokes.=20 >Honda believes Canesta's chips could help drivers know how close they = >are to other parked cars, pedestrians, and get other similar, useful = >information. Automakers are also examining ultrasonics (sound waves) or = >stereoscopic technologies to give drivers better information about their = >surroundings.=20 >"It provides a comparatively low-cost chip-based 3D 'camera' that could = >serve multiple applications from a single installation," said Toshinori = >Arita, head of venture arm Honda Strategic Venturing, in a prepared = >statement.=20 >Conceivably, the chips could be integrated into the body of a car or the = >cockpit. Honda is still in the testing and design phase, although it has = >pinpointed car models that it will try to put the technology into, said = >Canesta president Jim Spare.=20 >"We're initially focused on the slower speed applications," he said. = >"Things like occupancy sensing for air bag deployments."=20 >Canesta's product consists of a light source, a pattern projector and a = >sensor. The light and pattern projector sends out a continuous rain of = >beams of light. When the signals bounce back, they hit the sensor, which = >creates a 3D image from the timing of the reflected signals and send it = >to the processor.=20 >"The key innovation is that we don't have to do any processing of the = >data (on a microprocessor) to create a 3D image. The sensor calculates = >the distances," Spare said. "The microprocessor is used only for = >application processing. Is this a pedestrian or a tree?"=20 >When something moves into a region patrolled by the chip, the signals = >bounce back at a different pace, and the 3D image is changed. Software = >translates the mass of data into information or an image that humans can = >understand.=20 >Automakers have been dedicating more time and research into safety. Some = >of the ideas being explored include putting devices or systems in the = >car that would warn drivers of objects in the road or prevent the car = >from switching lanes when a speeding car is in the driver's blind spot.=20 >Herman Casier, a researcher from Belgium's AMI Semiconductor speculated = >at a chip conference last year that by 2040, cars will drive on = >auto-pilot.=20 >Spare added that Canesta has licensed its keyboard technology to a South = >Korean company who is looking for partners to develop it commercially.=20 >=20 >=20 > >------_=_NextPart_001_01C6E40F.69D47914 >Content-Type: text/html; > charset="iso-8859-1" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > >=0A= >charset=3Dunicode">=0A= >=0A= >=0A= >
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I came across this article today and thought it was = >appropriate to share with the class. I thought it was interesting, and I = >remembered in the textbook the author mentioned how some things = >could never be done by computers, and one of those things was drive, = >because they could never be able to "see" and process like people can. = >It's pretty amazing what they can do though:
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Honda wants to give its cars depth perception. The = >automotive giant has quietly put $5 million over three years into = >Canesta, which specializes in chips that help computers make sense out = >of 3D spaces. The company's best known product is a virtual keyboard: = >Users plunk down their fingers on the laser light images resembling a = >keyboard and their finger movements are translated to keystrokes. >
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Honda believes Canesta's chips could help drivers = >know how close they are to other parked cars, pedestrians, and get other = >similar, useful information. Automakers are also examining ultrasonics = >(sound waves) or stereoscopic technologies to give drivers better = >information about their surroundings.
=0A= >
"It provides a comparatively low-cost chip-based 3D = >'camera' that could serve multiple applications from a single = >installation," said Toshinori Arita, head of venture arm Honda Strategic = >Venturing, in a prepared statement.
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Conceivably, the chips could be integrated into the = >body of a car or the cockpit. Honda is still in the testing and design = >phase, although it has pinpointed car models that it will try to put the = >technology into, said Canesta president Jim Spare.
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"We're initially focused on the slower speed = >applications," he said. "Things like occupancy sensing for air bag = >deployments."
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Canesta's product consists of a light source, a = >pattern projector and a sensor. The light and pattern projector sends = >out a continuous rain of beams of light. When the signals bounce back, = >they hit the sensor, which creates a 3D image from the timing of the = >reflected signals and send it to the processor.
=0A= >
"The key innovation is that we don't have to do any = >processing of the data (on a microprocessor) to create a 3D image. The = >sensor calculates the distances," Spare said. "The microprocessor is = >used only for application processing. Is this a pedestrian or a tree?" = >
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When something moves into a region patrolled by the = >chip, the signals bounce back at a different pace, and the 3D image is = >changed. Software translates the mass of data into information or an = >image that humans can understand.
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Automakers have been dedicating more time and = >research into safety. Some of the ideas being explored include putting = >devices or systems in the car that would warn drivers of objects in the = >road or prevent the car from switching lanes when a speeding car is in = >the driver's blind spot.
=0A= >
Herman Casier, a researcher from Belgium's AMI = >Semiconductor speculated at a chip conference last year that by 2040, = >cars will drive on auto-pilot.
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Spare added that Canesta has licensed its keyboard = >technology to a South Korean company who is looking for partners to = >develop it commercially.
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>------_=_NextPart_001_01C6E40F.69D47914-- > >--__--__-- > >Message: 4 >Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 16:54:14 -0600 >From: "Emily Slager" >To: "Cognitive Psychology" >Subject: [Psych3120] Message for the Board >Reply-To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu > >------=_Part_40302_12626335.1159570454814 >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >Content-Disposition: inline > >I agree with the Resource Model. I think there are a few activities that >can be done together. For instance, I could easily study with orquestra >music on. And I can chew gum and type (like I'm doing right now). And >even >some more complex things like sing and vacuum. But until our lecture last >week, I was convinced that I could do something as "dual task demanding" as >talk on a cell phone and ______. Fill in the blank. Drive, walk, read, >clean the house. But I completely realize that a cell phone conversation >takes up a lot of my brain's energy. I stall while cleaning, I make the >wrong turns while driving, and I don't notice anyone around me when I >walk... if I'm on a cell phone. Another thing I learned: I did the >Pedestrian and Cellphones Experiment. And I walked much slower when I was >on a cell phone! By about 25% . I was amazed! > Emily > >------=_Part_40302_12626335.1159570454814 >Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >Content-Disposition: inline > >I agree with the Resource Model.  I think there are a few >activities that can be done together.  For instance, I could >easily study with orquestra music on.  And I can chew gum and type >(like I'm doing right now).  And even some more complex things >like sing and vacuum.  But until our lecture last week, I was >convinced that I could do something as "dual task demanding" as >talk on >a cell phone and ______. Fill in the blank.  Drive, walk, read, >clean the house.  But I completely realize that a cell phone >conversation takes up a lot of my brain's energy.  I stall while >cleaning, I make the wrong turns while driving, and I don't notice >anyone around me when I walk... if I'm on a cell phone.  Another >thing I learned:  I did the Pedestrian and Cellphones >Experiment.  And I walked much slower when I was on a cell >phone!  By about 25% .  I was amazed!
>           Emily
> >------=_Part_40302_12626335.1159570454814-- > >--__--__-- > >Message: 5 >From: "JESSE SITTERUD" >To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu >Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 19:35:43 -0600 >Subject: [Psych3120] Anesthesiology >Reply-To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu > >Just a thought, at one point I was seriously considering going into >anesthesiology. But after what was covered on the topic of anesthesiology >in class this past week I'm now reminded why I chose to move in a different >direction. Just hearing those statistics of the often occuring unexpected >incidences, and the number of fatalities that have resulted in just one >year >really showed me the stress and pressure that I would have been facing. I >mean, 1 fatality every 5 minutes from these unexpected errors says it all! > >_________________________________________________________________ >Search—Your way, your world, right now! >http://imagine-windowslive.com/minisites/searchlaunch/?locale=en-us&FORM=WLMTAG > > >--__--__-- > >Message: 6 >Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 21:30:25 -0700 (PDT) >From: Sabreena Khan >To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu >Subject: [Psych3120] intattention