From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Mon Oct 1 00:10:51 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Diana Alleman) Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 23:10:51 +0000 Subject: [Psych3120] Diana Alleman Message-ID: Topic: Slips by Time of Day I am curious to know how many people participated in the Slips By Time Of Day study? And how exactly it would go reported in the diary? Would a diary be carried around with person for a day while every time they made this type of error they would document the time and activity? That seems like a difficult task to report on. I usually tend to forget that I made a slip minutes after it occurs. Or in fact, sometimes I dont recall consciously doing anything wrong. Some slips are so small and go unnoticed. From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Mon Oct 1 00:46:15 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (JAMES C HINCKLE) Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 17:46:15 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] Julie Hinckle: Mode Errors Message-ID: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0019_01C80389.CC52A3F0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I agree with Megan G. when she said that memory slips and lapses seem to = occur when she is tired or overly stressed. When we are worried about = something or anxious (i.e. an exam or being late for work) our attention = is primarily focused on that one particular thing. This reminds me of = Bill, in the article "An Act of God". Here was someone who had never = faced an actual emergency of this magnitude before. He had practiced = what to do if an emergency should ever occur, but because stress took = over, he began to lose his good judgment and made a series of mode = errors (which are right actions made in the wrong context). In lecture, = we discussed mode errors using the example that on two separate = occasions, pilots shut down the wrong engine in their planes which = caused both to crash. It appears when humans are placed in an emergency = situation, stress and/or fear is not being filtered out properly and = mistakes are made. I am not sure if this occurrence is due to = inexperience or is it due to how a particular person deals with a = stressful event. In Bill's case, I would say his mistakes were due to = both inexperience and anxiety. =20 ------=_NextPart_000_0019_01C80389.CC52A3F0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
I agree with Megan G. when she said that memory slips and lapses = seem to=20 occur when she is tired or overly stressed.  When we = are worried about=20 something or anxious (i.e. an exam or being late for work) our = attention is=20 primarily focused on that one particular thing.  This reminds me of = Bill,=20 in the article "An Act of God".  Here was someone who had never = faced an=20 actual emergency of this magnitude before.  He had practiced what = to do if=20 an emergency should ever occur, but because stress took over, he began = to lose=20 his good judgment and made a series of mode errors (which are right = actions made=20 in the wrong context).  In lecture, we discussed mode errors=20 using the example that on two separate occasions,=20 pilots shut down the wrong engine in their planes which = caused both=20 to crash.  It appears when humans are placed in an = emergency=20 situation, stress and/or fear is not being filtered out properly and = mistakes=20 are made.  I am not sure if this occurrence is due to = inexperience=20 or is it due to how a particular person deals with a = stressful=20 event.  In Bill's case, I would say his mistakes were due to = both=20 inexperience and anxiety.     
 
------=_NextPart_000_0019_01C80389.CC52A3F0-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Mon Oct 1 02:47:16 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Andrea Stark) Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 19:47:16 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] (no subject) Message-ID: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C803CC.FEDF3328 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable The other day when we were discussing the human factors stuff was really = interesting. I especially found the part about the medical field, and = anesthesiology, interesting. I have a friend whose mom went through open = heart surgery a few years ago and she talked about her experience = afterward. She told me that when she was in surgery, a point came where = she was completely aware of the pain but could do nothing to indicate it = because she had no ability to talk or move. She said it was the most = horrible experience and I can imagine that it was because open heart = surgery has got to be incredibly painful if you haven't gotten the right = drug dosage. I found it very reassuring to see the advanced drug display = technology that is being developed to ensure that correct dosages are = administered and maintained and that human errors are reduced during = surgical procedures so that more people don't have to go through what my = friend's mom did. Too bad these monitors weren't around to help in her = case. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C803CC.FEDF3328 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable =0A= =0A= =0A= =0A=
The other day when we = were discussing the human factors stuff was really interesting. I = especially found the part about the medical field, and anesthesiology, = interesting. I have a friend whose mom went through open heart surgery a = few years ago and she talked about her experience afterward. She told me = that when she was in surgery, a point came where she was completely = aware of the pain but could do nothing to indicate it because she had no = ability to talk or move. She said it was the most horrible experience = and I can imagine that it was because open heart surgery has got to be = incredibly painful if you haven't gotten the right drug dosage. I found = it very reassuring to see the advanced drug display technology that is = being developed to ensure that correct dosages are administered and = maintained and that human errors are reduced during surgical procedures = so that more people don't have to go through what my friend's mom did. = Too bad these monitors weren't around to help in her = case.
------_=_NextPart_001_01C803CC.FEDF3328-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Mon Oct 1 22:40:48 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Megan Gertsch) Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 14:40:48 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Psych3120] listening to music while reading Message-ID: <441463.5250.qm@web56111.mail.re3.yahoo.com> --0-971218743-1191274848=:5250 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I am one of those people that can read while listening to music as long as there is no singing. A lot of the time I actually have to listen to music without lyrics when I read. The music seems to drown out all the other background noise, like neighbors arguing, babies crying or the TV in another room. This makes me think of Treisman's Attenuation Theory. I think that the music helps me turn down the volume (or attenuate) the other noises and then the words that I am reading don't have to compete for my attention with the words that I am hearing (from a song or the neighbors or the TV) because they have been attenuated I can't really process them. Although I'm sure I would still notice if I heard my name coming from the TV. Megan Gertsch --------------------------------- Building a website is a piece of cake. Yahoo! Small Business gives you all the tools to get online. --0-971218743-1191274848=:5250 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
I am one of those people that can read while listening to music as long as there is no singing. A lot of the time I actually have to listen to music without lyrics when I read. The music seems to drown out all the other background noise, like neighbors arguing, babies crying or the TV in another room. This makes me think of Treisman's Attenuation Theory. I think that the music helps me turn down the volume (or attenuate) the other noises and then the words that I am reading don't have to compete for my attention with the words that I am hearing (from a song or the neighbors or the TV) because they have been attenuated I can't really process them. Although I'm sure I would still notice if I heard my name coming from the TV.
 
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Yahoo! Small Business gives you all the tools to get online. --0-971218743-1191274848=:5250-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Mon Oct 1 22:36:35 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Melissa Priest) Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2007 21:36:35 +0000 Subject: [Psych3120] achromatopsia - Melissa Priest Message-ID: I found "The Case of the Colorblind Painter" very interesting. Especially the fact that Mr. I. not only lost his ability to see color, but he also lost the ability to imagine and remember colors. For example the color, or lack of color, in food made it very difficult for him to maintain his appetite. Even when he closed his eyes when eating say a tomato, which he could recognize by taste, he could only visualize a black tomato. I closed my eyes and tried to visualize a particular color. I couldn't do it. I only saw black as a result of the lack of light. I asked a friend to try the same and she said she was able to picture a color. I was able to see color when imagining a scene, for example I could think of grass and see green. But, I couldn't just think green and see green. I could think of sensations in relationship to certain colors - such as warmth with yellow and red and cold with blue - even in the absence of a visual picture of the color. Why such sensations were associated with particular colors is I guess something learned from the culture in which I have been raised. I wonder the different sensations experienced in different cultures. I would also be interested in learning more about how different languages categorize and name colors and how that results in different perceptions of color between people. From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Tue Oct 2 18:29:26 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Joseph Boyer) Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 10:29:26 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Psych3120] Re: Psych3120 digest, Vol 1 #1062 - 5 msgs In-Reply-To: <200710011803.l91I34G9011558@topo.csbs.utah.edu> Message-ID: <96267.97780.qm@web56904.mail.re3.yahoo.com> --0-1590641624-1191346166=:97780 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I for some reason am having a hard time completely distinguishing between top-down and bottom-up processing. What do you all think of this? An example of top-down would be like the halloween decorations where I work. There are letters that spell HALLOWEEN out of pictures of skeletons and other halloween characters. The characters are bent in shapes to form letters. People recognize these and can read them because of top-down processing. Is this right? psych3120-request@lists.csbs.utah.edu wrote: 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. Instrumental Music (Jennifer Smith) 2. (no subject) (erica smith) 3. Diana Alleman (Diana Alleman) 4. Julie Hinckle: Mode Errors (JAMES C HINCKLE) 5. (no subject) (Andrea Stark) Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 12:44:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Jennifer Smith To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Subject: [Psych3120] Instrumental Music Some people can read while instrumental music is playing in the background, but if the music has words, they find it distracting. Why might that be? It could be that music with words takes more attention to listen to, but I think another explanation is more likely. It may be that these people cannot help but process the words semantically. Semantic processing of spoken or sung words may be automatic. Processing the meaning of the sung words interferes with processing the words that are read. Thus it is not that music with words takes more attention to listen to; rather the words are processed regardless of whether you want them to be, and this interferes with reading. --------------------------------- Luggage? GPS? Comic books? Check out fitting gifts for grads at Yahoo! Search.From: erica smith To: cognitive psych blog Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 16:12:55 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] (no subject) .hmmessage P { margin:0px; padding:0px } body.hmmessage { FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma } Does anyone know if there is a major difference between gender and focusing on driving while talking on the phone? Or if there is a significant difference between gender in any type of situation where multi-tasking and attentional focus are involved? erica smith --------------------------------- Explore the seven wonders of the world Learn more! From: "Diana Alleman" To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 23:10:51 +0000 Subject: [Psych3120] Diana Alleman Topic: Slips by Time of Day I am curious to know how many people participated in the Slips By Time Of Day study? And how exactly it would go reported in the diary? Would a diary be carried around with person for a day while every time they made this type of error they would document the time and activity? That seems like a difficult task to report on. I usually tend to forget that I made a slip minutes after it occurs. Or in fact, sometimes I dont recall consciously doing anything wrong. Some slips are so small and go unnoticed. From: "JAMES C HINCKLE" To: "Psych 3120-Modes \(Cog. Psych\)" Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 17:46:15 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] Julie Hinckle: Mode Errors I agree with Megan G. when she said that memory slips and lapses seem to occur when she is tired or overly stressed. When we are worried about something or anxious (i.e. an exam or being late for work) our attention is primarily focused on that one particular thing. This reminds me of Bill, in the article "An Act of God". Here was someone who had never faced an actual emergency of this magnitude before. He had practiced what to do if an emergency should ever occur, but because stress took over, he began to lose his good judgment and made a series of mode errors (which are right actions made in the wrong context). In lecture, we discussed mode errors using the example that on two separate occasions, pilots shut down the wrong engine in their planes which caused both to crash. It appears when humans are placed in an emergency situation, stress and/or fear is not being filtered out properly and mistakes are made. I am not sure if this occurrence is due to inexperience or is it due to how a particular person deals with a stressful event. In Bill's case, I would say his mistakes were due to both inexperience and anxiety. Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 19:47:16 -0600 From: "Andrea Stark" To: "psych 3120" Subject: [Psych3120] (no subject) The other day when we were discussing the human factors stuff was really interesting. I especially found the part about the medical field, and anesthesiology, interesting. I have a friend whose mom went through open heart surgery a few years ago and she talked about her experience afterward. She told me that when she was in surgery, a point came where she was completely aware of the pain but could do nothing to indicate it because she had no ability to talk or move. She said it was the most horrible experience and I can imagine that it was because open heart surgery has got to be incredibly painful if you haven't gotten the right drug dosage. I found it very reassuring to see the advanced drug display technology that is being developed to ensure that correct dosages are administered and maintained and that human errors are reduced during surgical procedures so that more people don't have to go through what my friend's mom did. Too bad these monitors weren't around to help in her case. _______________________________________________ Psych3120 mailing list Psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/listinfo.cgi/psych3120 --------------------------------- Don't let your dream ride pass you by. Make it a reality with Yahoo! 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Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 12:44:13 -0700 (PDT)
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To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu
Subject: [Psych3120] Instrumental Music

Some people can read while instrumental music is playing in the background, but if the music has words, they find it distracting. Why might that be?
 
It could be that music with words takes more attention to listen to, but I think another explanation is more likely. It may be that these people cannot help but process the words semantically. Semantic processing of spoken or sung words may be automatic. Processing the meaning of the sung words interferes with processing the words that are read. Thus it is not that music with words takes more attention to listen to; rather the words are processed regardless of whether you want them to be, and this interferes with reading.
 
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Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 16:12:55 -0600
Subject: [Psych3120] (no subject)

Does anyone know if there is a major difference between gender and focusing on driving while talking on the phone?  Or if there is a significant difference between gender in any type of situation where multi-tasking and attentional focus are involved?

erica smith

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To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 23:10:51 +0000
Subject: [Psych3120] Diana Alleman

Topic: Slips by Time of Day

I am curious to know how many people participated in the Slips By Time Of
Day study? And how exactly it would go reported in the diary? Would a diary
be carried around with person for a day while every time they made this type
of error they would document the time and activity? That seems like a
difficult task to report on. I usually tend to forget that I made a slip
minutes after it occurs. Or in fact, sometimes I dont recall consciously
doing anything wrong. Some slips are so small and go unnoticed.


From: "JAMES C HINCKLE" <jimandjulie@msn.com>
To: "Psych 3120-Modes \(Cog. Psych\)" <psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu>
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 17:46:15 -0600
Subject: [Psych3120] Julie Hinckle: Mode Errors

I agree with Megan G. when she said that memory slips and lapses seem to occur when she is tired or overly stressed.  When we are worried about something or anxious (i.e. an exam or being late for work) our attention is primarily focused on that one particular thing.  This reminds me of Bill, in the article "An Act of God".  Here was someone who had never faced an actual emergency of this magnitude before.  He had practiced what to do if an emergency should ever occur, but because stress took over, he began to lose his good judgment and made a series of mode errors (which are right actions made in the wrong context).  In lecture, we discussed mode errors using the example that on two separate occasions, pilots shut down the wrong engine in their planes which caused both to crash.  It appears when humans are placed in an emergency situation, stress and/or fear is not being filtered out properly and mistakes are made.  I am not sure if this occurrence is due to inexperience or is it due to how a particular person deals with a stressful event.  In Bill's case, I would say his mistakes were due to both inexperience and anxiety.     
 
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 19:47:16 -0600
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To: "psych 3120" <psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu>
Subject: [Psych3120] (no subject)

The other day when we were discussing the human factors stuff was really interesting. I especially found the part about the medical field, and anesthesiology, interesting. I have a friend whose mom went through open heart surgery a few years ago and she talked about her experience afterward. She told me that when she was in surgery, a point came where she was completely aware of the pain but could do nothing to indicate it because she had no ability to talk or move. She said it was the most horrible experience and I can imagine that it was because open heart surgery has got to be incredibly painful if you haven't gotten the right drug dosage. I found it very reassuring to see the advanced drug display technology that is being developed to ensure that correct dosages are administered and maintained and that human errors are reduced during surgical procedures so that more people don't have to go through what my friend's mom did. Too bad these monitors weren't around to help in her case.
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Don't let your dream ride pass you by. Make it a reality with Yahoo! Autos. --0-1590641624-1191346166=:97780-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Tue Oct 2 21:21:24 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Alissa Nielson) Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 13:21:24 -0700 Subject: [Psych3120] ANielson In-Reply-To: <200709301803.l8UI2Xvl024017@topo.csbs.utah.edu> References: <200709301803.l8UI2Xvl024017@topo.csbs.utah.edu> Message-ID: <470253E40200005300022275@gwmail1.kleinfelder.com> --=__PartD1F79954.0__= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable FYI: I've been told that I was wrong about my blanket and that it really = was bottom-up processing... I believe every human error can be accounted for so I am accounting for = the one I recently (it's been a week since I wrote this in my notebook) = had by giving it one of the labels we learned in class. Until recently = and for the past 2 years I was using a credit card for everything. When I = was up to my limit at the times I was not keeping track it would still let = me know I was at my limit by not letting me use the credit card to make = the purchase, it would say "insufficient funds". Now that I am using my = debit card I still expected the same thing to happen. I have not been = keeping track because I have been too busy. So surprised at all the times = I was able to use it without the "insufficient funds" error I decided to = look at the balance. I made approximately 15 negative withdrawals and was = charged a total of $120 from my bank. I had plenty of money in my savings = account to cover it, had I looked sooner I would not have had to pay $120. = OR if I had not had my MODE ERROR of mistaking my debit card for my = credit card I would not have had to pay $120. :( I was in the context and = rules of using my credit card while using my debit card. --=__PartD1F79954.0__= Content-Type: text/html; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: HTML
FYI: I've been told that I was wrong about my blanket and that it = really was bottom-up processing...
I believe every human error can be accounted for so I am accounting = for the one I recently (it's been a week since I wrote this in my = notebook) had by giving it one of the labels we learned in class. = ; Until recently and for the past 2 years I was using a credit card for = everything.  When I was up to my limit at the times I was not keeping = track it would still let me know I was at my limit by not letting me use = the credit card to make the purchase, it would say "insufficient = funds".  Now that I am using my debit card I still expected the same = thing to happen.  I have not been keeping track because I have been = too busy.  So surprised at all the times I was able to use it without = the "insufficient funds" error I decided to look at the balance.  I = made approximately 15 negative withdrawals and was charged a total of $120 = from my bank.  I had plenty of money in my savings account to cover = it, had I looked sooner I would not have had to pay $120.  OR if I = had not had my MODE ERROR of mistaking my debit card for my credit card I = would not have had to pay $120. :( I was in the context and rules of using = my credit card while using my debit card.
--=__PartD1F79954.0__=-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Tue Oct 2 21:27:14 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Alissa Nielson) Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 13:27:14 -0700 Subject: [Psych3120] ANielson In-Reply-To: <200710021803.l92I2Xww006173@topo.csbs.utah.edu> References: <200710021803.l92I2Xww006173@topo.csbs.utah.edu> Message-ID: <47025542020000530002227E@gwmail1.kleinfelder.com> --=__Part36107EB2.0__= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I read Strayer's chapter about selective attention and how our attention = can be captured by sudden onset or moving stimuli and it can be captured = by presenting stimuli rather than the absence of one. Then I drove on the = road and realized that blinkers flash to capture attention and break = lights appear rather than disappear to capture attention; also, bikers = present hand signals to let us know what they are doing rather than the = absence of something. Ingenious. I doubt they made cars that way because = of research. I think our minds just know what causes attention before it = is even explained. --=__Part36107EB2.0__= Content-Type: text/html; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: HTML
I read Strayer's chapter about selective attention and how our = attention can be captured by sudden onset or moving stimuli and it can be = captured by presenting stimuli rather than the absence of one.  Then = I drove on the road and realized that blinkers flash to capture attention = and break lights appear rather than disappear to capture attention; also, = bikers present hand signals to let us know what they are doing rather than = the absence of something.  Ingenious. I doubt they made cars that way = because of research.  I think our minds just know what causes = attention before it is even explained.
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Pinpoint customers who are looking for what you sell. --0-1472123431-1191365236=:26511-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Wed Oct 3 01:03:20 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Joseph Boyer) Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 17:03:20 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Psych3120] Re: Psych3120 digest, Vol 1 #1063 - 3 msgs In-Reply-To: <200710021803.l92I2Xww006173@topo.csbs.utah.edu> Message-ID: <291887.88073.qm@web56911.mail.re3.yahoo.com> --0-1990374220-1191369800=:88073 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I another question regarding some of the material for the test tiomorrow. What exactly do we need to know about agnosia. We need to understand associative agnosia and apperceptive agnosia but anything specifically about them? What other types of agnosia do we need to be familiar with? psych3120-request@lists.csbs.utah.edu wrote: 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. listening to music while reading (Megan Gertsch) 2. achromatopsia - Melissa Priest (Melissa Priest) 3. Re: Psych3120 digest, Vol 1 #1062 - 5 msgs (Joseph Boyer) Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 14:40:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Megan Gertsch To: psych 3120 Subject: [Psych3120] listening to music while reading I am one of those people that can read while listening to music as long as there is no singing. A lot of the time I actually have to listen to music without lyrics when I read. The music seems to drown out all the other background noise, like neighbors arguing, babies crying or the TV in another room. This makes me think of Treisman's Attenuation Theory. I think that the music helps me turn down the volume (or attenuate) the other noises and then the words that I am reading don't have to compete for my attention with the words that I am hearing (from a song or the neighbors or the TV) because they have been attenuated I can't really process them. Although I'm sure I would still notice if I heard my name coming from the TV. Megan Gertsch --------------------------------- Building a website is a piece of cake. Yahoo! Small Business gives you all the tools to get online.From: "Melissa Priest" To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2007 21:36:35 +0000 Subject: [Psych3120] achromatopsia - Melissa Priest I found "The Case of the Colorblind Painter" very interesting. Especially the fact that Mr. I. not only lost his ability to see color, but he also lost the ability to imagine and remember colors. For example the color, or lack of color, in food made it very difficult for him to maintain his appetite. Even when he closed his eyes when eating say a tomato, which he could recognize by taste, he could only visualize a black tomato. I closed my eyes and tried to visualize a particular color. I couldn't do it. I only saw black as a result of the lack of light. I asked a friend to try the same and she said she was able to picture a color. I was able to see color when imagining a scene, for example I could think of grass and see green. But, I couldn't just think green and see green. I could think of sensations in relationship to certain colors - such as warmth with yellow and red and cold with blue - even in the absence of a visual picture of the color. Why such sensations were associated with particular colors is I guess something learned from the culture in which I have been raised. I wonder the different sensations experienced in different cultures. I would also be interested in learning more about how different languages categorize and name colors and how that results in different perceptions of color between people. Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 10:29:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Joseph Boyer To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Subject: [Psych3120] Re: Psych3120 digest, Vol 1 #1062 - 5 msgs I for some reason am having a hard time completely distinguishing between top-down and bottom-up processing. What do you all think of this? An example of top-down would be like the halloween decorations where I work. There are letters that spell HALLOWEEN out of pictures of skeletons and other halloween characters. The characters are bent in shapes to form letters. People recognize these and can read them because of top-down processing. Is this right? psych3120-request@lists.csbs.utah.edu wrote: 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. Instrumental Music (Jennifer Smith) 2. (no subject) (erica smith) 3. Diana Alleman (Diana Alleman) 4. Julie Hinckle: Mode Errors (JAMES C HINCKLE) 5. (no subject) (Andrea Stark) Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 12:44:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Jennifer Smith To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Subject: [Psych3120] Instrumental Music Some people can read while instrumental music is playing in the background, but if the music has words, they find it distracting. Why might that be? It could be that music with words takes more attention to listen to, but I think another explanation is more likely. It may be that these people cannot help but process the words semantically. Semantic processing of spoken or sung words may be automatic. Processing the meaning of the sung words interferes with processing the words that are read. Thus it is not that music with words takes more attention to listen to; rather the words are processed regardless of whether you want them to be, and this interferes with reading. --------------------------------- Luggage? GPS? Comic books? Check out fitting gifts for grads at Yahoo! Search.From: erica smith To: cognitive psych blog Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 16:12:55 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] (no subject) .hmmessage P { margin:0px; padding:0px } body.hmmessage { FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma } Does anyone know if there is a major difference between gender and focusing on driving while talking on the phone? Or if there is a significant difference between gender in any type of situation where multi-tasking and attentional focus are involved? erica smith --------------------------------- Explore the seven wonders of the world Learn more! From: "Diana Alleman" To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 23:10:51 +0000 Subject: [Psych3120] Diana Alleman Topic: Slips by Time of Day I am curious to know how many people participated in the Slips By Time Of Day study? And how exactly it would go reported in the diary? Would a diary be carried around with person for a day while every time they made this type of error they would document the time and activity? That seems like a difficult task to report on. I usually tend to forget that I made a slip minutes after it occurs. Or in fact, sometimes I dont recall consciously doing anything wrong. Some slips are so small and go unnoticed. From: "JAMES C HINCKLE" To: "Psych 3120-Modes \(Cog. Psych\)" Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 17:46:15 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] Julie Hinckle: Mode Errors I agree with Megan G. when she said that memory slips and lapses seem to occur when she is tired or overly stressed. When we are worried about something or anxious (i.e. an exam or being late for work) our attention is primarily focused on that one particular thing. This reminds me of Bill, in the article "An Act of God". Here was someone who had never faced an actual emergency of this magnitude before. He had practiced what to do if an emergency should ever occur, but because stress took over, he began to lose his good judgment and made a series of mode errors (which are right actions made in the wrong context). In lecture, we discussed mode errors using the example that on two separate occasions, pilots shut down the wrong engine in their planes which caused both to crash. It appears when humans are placed in an emergency situation, stress and/or fear is not being filtered out properly and mistakes are made. I am not sure if this occurrence is due to inexperience or is it due to how a particular person deals with a stressful event. In Bill's case, I would say his mistakes were due to both inexperience and anxiety. Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 19:47:16 -0600 From: "Andrea Stark" To: "psych 3120" Subject: [Psych3120] (no subject) The other day when we were discussing the human factors stuff was really interesting. I especially found the part about the medical field, and anesthesiology, interesting. I have a friend whose mom went through open heart surgery a few years ago and she talked about her experience afterward. She told me that when she was in surgery, a point came where she was completely aware of the pain but could do nothing to indicate it because she had no ability to talk or move. She said it was the most horrible experience and I can imagine that it was because open heart surgery has got to be incredibly painful if you haven't gotten the right drug dosage. I found it very reassuring to see the advanced drug display technology that is being developed to ensure that correct dosages are administered and maintained and that human errors are reduced during surgical procedures so that more people don't have to go through what my friend's mom did. Too bad these monitors weren't around to help in her case. _______________________________________________ Psych3120 mailing list Psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/listinfo.cgi/psych3120 --------------------------------- Don't let your dream ride pass you by. Make it a reality with Yahoo! Autos. _______________________________________________ Psych3120 mailing list Psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/listinfo.cgi/psych3120 --------------------------------- Boardwalk for $500? In 2007? Ha! Play Monopoly Here and Now (it's updated for today's economy) at Yahoo! Games. --0-1990374220-1191369800=:88073 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I another question regarding some of the material for the test tiomorrow. What exactly do we need to know about agnosia. We need to understand associative agnosia and apperceptive agnosia but anything specifically about them? What other types of agnosia do we need to be familiar with?

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From: Megan Gertsch <meganmwg@yahoo.com>
To: psych 3120 <psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu>
Subject: [Psych3120] listening to music while reading

I am one of those people that can read while listening to music as long as there is no singing. A lot of the time I actually have to listen to music without lyrics when I read. The music seems to drown out all the other background noise, like neighbors arguing, babies crying or the TV in another room. This makes me think of Treisman's Attenuation Theory. I think that the music helps me turn down the volume (or attenuate) the other noises and then the words that I am reading don't have to compete for my attention with the words that I am hearing (from a song or the neighbors or the TV) because they have been attenuated I can't really process them. Although I'm sure I would still notice if I heard my name coming from the TV.
 
Megan Gertsch
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Yahoo! Small Business gives you all the tools to get online.From: "Melissa Priest" <melissadawn_pl@msn.com>
To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2007 21:36:35 +0000
Subject: [Psych3120] achromatopsia - Melissa Priest

I found "The Case of the Colorblind Painter" very interesting. Especially
the fact that Mr. I. not only lost his ability to see color, but he also
lost the ability to imagine and remember colors. For example the color, or
lack of color, in food made it very difficult for him to maintain his
appetite. Even when he closed his eyes when eating say a tomato, which he
could recognize by taste, he could only visualize a black tomato.

I closed my eyes and tried to visualize a particular color. I couldn't do
it. I only saw black as a result of the lack of light. I asked a friend to
try the same and she said she was able to picture a color. I was able to
see color when imagining a scene, for example I could think of grass and see
green. But, I couldn't just think green and see green. I could think of
sensations in relationship to certain colors - such as warmth with yellow
and red and cold with blue - even in the absence of a visual picture of the
color. Why such sensations were associated with particular colors is I
guess something learned from the culture in which I have been raised. I
wonder the different sensations experienced in different cultures. I would
also be interested in learning more about how different languages categorize
and name colors and how that results in different perceptions of color
between people.


Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 10:29:26 -0700 (PDT)
From: Joseph Boyer <joeboyer31@yahoo.com>
To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu
Subject: [Psych3120] Re: Psych3120 digest, Vol 1 #1062 - 5 msgs

I for some reason am having a hard time completely distinguishing between top-down and bottom-up processing. What do you all think of this? An example of top-down would be like the halloween decorations where I work. There are letters that spell HALLOWEEN out of pictures of skeletons and other halloween characters. The characters are bent in shapes to form letters. People recognize these and can read them because of top-down processing. Is this right?

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5. (no subject) (Andrea Stark)
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 12:44:13 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jennifer Smith <jksmith742003@yahoo.com>
To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu
Subject: [Psych3120] Instrumental Music

Some people can read while instrumental music is playing in the background, but if the music has words, they find it distracting. Why might that be?
 
It could be that music with words takes more attention to listen to, but I think another explanation is more likely. It may be that these people cannot help but process the words semantically. Semantic processing of spoken or sung words may be automatic. Processing the meaning of the sung words interferes with processing the words that are read. Thus it is not that music with words takes more attention to listen to; rather the words are processed regardless of whether you want them to be, and this interferes with reading.
 
Luggage? GPS? Comic books?
Check out fitting gifts for grads at Yahoo! Search.From: erica smith <puffytail101@hotmail.com>
To: cognitive psych blog <psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu>
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 16:12:55 -0600
Subject: [Psych3120] (no subject)

Does anyone know if there is a major difference between gender and focusing on driving while talking on the phone?  Or if there is a significant difference between gender in any type of situation where multi-tasking and attentional focus are involved?

erica smith

Explore the seven wonders of the world Learn more! From: "Diana Alleman" <dinanna32@hotmail.com>
To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 23:10:51 +0000
Subject: [Psych3120] Diana Alleman

Topic: Slips by Time of Day

I am curious to know how many people participated in the Slips By Time Of
Day study? And how exactly it would go reported in the diary? Would a diary
be carried around with person for a day while every time they made this type
of error they would document the time and activity? That seems like a
difficult task to report on. I usually tend to forget that I made a slip
minutes after it occurs. Or in fact, sometimes I dont recall consciously
doing anything wrong. Some slips are so small and go unnoticed.


From: "JAMES C HINCKLE" <jimandjulie@msn.com>
To: "Psych 3120-Modes \(Cog. Psych\)" <psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu>
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 17:46:15 -0600
Subject: [Psych3120] Julie Hinckle: Mode Errors

I agree with Megan G. when she said that memory slips and lapses seem to occur when she is tired or overly stressed.  When we are worried about something or anxious (i.e. an exam or being late for work) our attention is primarily focused on that one particular thing.  This reminds me of Bill, in the article "An Act of God".  Here was someone who had never faced an actual emergency of this magnitude before.  He had practiced what to do if an emergency should ever occur, but because stress took over, he began to lose his good judgment and made a series of mode errors (which are right actions made in the wrong context).  In lecture, we discussed mode errors using the example that on two separate occasions, pilots shut down the wrong engine in their planes which caused both to crash.  It appears when humans are placed in an emergency situation, stress and/or fear is not being filtered out properly and mistakes are made.  I am not sure if this occurrence is due to inexperience or is it due to how a particular person deals with a stressful event.  In Bill's case, I would say his mistakes were due to both inexperience and anxiety.     
 
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 19:47:16 -0600
From: "Andrea Stark" <a.stark@utah.edu>
To: "psych 3120" <psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu>
Subject: [Psych3120] (no subject)

The other day when we were discussing the human factors stuff was really interesting. I especially found the part about the medical field, and anesthesiology, interesting. I have a friend whose mom went through open heart surgery a few years ago and she talked about her experience afterward. She told me that when she was in surgery, a point came where she was completely aware of the pain but could do nothing to indicate it because she had no ability to talk or move. She said it was the most horrible experience and I can imagine that it was because open heart surgery has got to be incredibly painful if you haven't gotten the right drug dosage. I found it very reassuring to see the advanced drug display technology that is being developed to ensure that correct dosages are administered and maintained and that human errors are reduced during surgical procedures so that more people don't have to go through what my friend's mom did. Too bad these monitors weren't around to help in her case.
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Play Monopoly Here and Now (it's updated for today's economy) at Yahoo! Games. --0-1990374220-1191369800=:88073-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Wed Oct 3 03:05:37 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Danielle Cysewski) Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 20:05:37 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] Apperceptive and Associative Agnosia References: <200710030005.l93052AK014603@topo.csbs.utah.edu> Message-ID: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_01A7_01C8052F.99341BF0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable My answer to #8: Apperceptive Agnosia is the inability to name, copy, or recognize = visually presented stimuli. Shape perception and figure-ground = segregation is also impaired. The major problem is the inability to = recognize objects - for instance, to see keys on the table and know = visually that they are keys. This can be easily tested by asking an = individual to copy letters or shapes - those w/ apperceptive agnosia = will be unable to do it. Associative agnosia is when nominal visual = perception is stripped of its meaning. Just as in apperceptive agnosia, = the ability to recognize objects is impaired. One difference, however, = is that these individuals are able to accurately copy shapes - only they = can't identify them.=20 Danielle Cysewski ------=_NextPart_000_01A7_01C8052F.99341BF0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
My answer to #8:
 
Apperceptive Agnosia is the inability to name, copy, or recognize = visually=20 presented stimuli. Shape perception and figure-ground segregation is = also=20 impaired. The major problem is the inability to recognize objects - for=20 instance, to see keys on the table and know visually that they are keys. = This=20 can be easily tested by asking an individual to copy letters or shapes - = those=20 w/ apperceptive agnosia will be unable to do it. Associative agnosia is = when=20 nominal visual perception is stripped of its meaning. Just as in = apperceptive=20 agnosia, the ability to recognize objects is impaired. One difference, = however,=20 is that these individuals are able to accurately copy shapes - only they = can't=20 identify them.
 
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------=_NextPart_000_01A7_01C8052F.99341BF0-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Wed Oct 3 04:01:04 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Joseph Boyer) Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 20:01:04 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Psych3120] Re: Psych3120 digest, Vol 1 #1063 - 3 msgs In-Reply-To: <200710021803.l92I2Xww006173@topo.csbs.utah.edu> Message-ID: <595537.66152.qm@web56915.mail.re3.yahoo.com> --0-1608308937-1191380464=:66152 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I have loved the material in this course, it has been fascinating and is fun to think about and try to reason out in my head. Every once in a while I get stuck on a song and cannot figure it out how I got it in my head. Finally after asking somebody they'll tell me when I probably would have heard it (somebody else in a different conversation was singing it while I was talking it to someone else). Selective attention explains how I could not even have known that I heard it and suddenly I am singing it to myself. To me this proves more that a lot of information gets in our head that isn't consciously processed. Joe psych3120-request@lists.csbs.utah.edu wrote: 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. listening to music while reading (Megan Gertsch) 2. achromatopsia - Melissa Priest (Melissa Priest) 3. Re: Psych3120 digest, Vol 1 #1062 - 5 msgs (Joseph Boyer) Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 14:40:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Megan Gertsch To: psych 3120 Subject: [Psych3120] listening to music while reading I am one of those people that can read while listening to music as long as there is no singing. A lot of the time I actually have to listen to music without lyrics when I read. The music seems to drown out all the other background noise, like neighbors arguing, babies crying or the TV in another room. This makes me think of Treisman's Attenuation Theory. I think that the music helps me turn down the volume (or attenuate) the other noises and then the words that I am reading don't have to compete for my attention with the words that I am hearing (from a song or the neighbors or the TV) because they have been attenuated I can't really process them. Although I'm sure I would still notice if I heard my name coming from the TV. Megan Gertsch --------------------------------- Building a website is a piece of cake. Yahoo! Small Business gives you all the tools to get online.From: "Melissa Priest" To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2007 21:36:35 +0000 Subject: [Psych3120] achromatopsia - Melissa Priest I found "The Case of the Colorblind Painter" very interesting. Especially the fact that Mr. I. not only lost his ability to see color, but he also lost the ability to imagine and remember colors. For example the color, or lack of color, in food made it very difficult for him to maintain his appetite. Even when he closed his eyes when eating say a tomato, which he could recognize by taste, he could only visualize a black tomato. I closed my eyes and tried to visualize a particular color. I couldn't do it. I only saw black as a result of the lack of light. I asked a friend to try the same and she said she was able to picture a color. I was able to see color when imagining a scene, for example I could think of grass and see green. But, I couldn't just think green and see green. I could think of sensations in relationship to certain colors - such as warmth with yellow and red and cold with blue - even in the absence of a visual picture of the color. Why such sensations were associated with particular colors is I guess something learned from the culture in which I have been raised. I wonder the different sensations experienced in different cultures. I would also be interested in learning more about how different languages categorize and name colors and how that results in different perceptions of color between people. Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 10:29:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Joseph Boyer To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Subject: [Psych3120] Re: Psych3120 digest, Vol 1 #1062 - 5 msgs I for some reason am having a hard time completely distinguishing between top-down and bottom-up processing. What do you all think of this? An example of top-down would be like the halloween decorations where I work. There are letters that spell HALLOWEEN out of pictures of skeletons and other halloween characters. The characters are bent in shapes to form letters. People recognize these and can read them because of top-down processing. Is this right? psych3120-request@lists.csbs.utah.edu wrote: 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. Instrumental Music (Jennifer Smith) 2. (no subject) (erica smith) 3. Diana Alleman (Diana Alleman) 4. Julie Hinckle: Mode Errors (JAMES C HINCKLE) 5. (no subject) (Andrea Stark) Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 12:44:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Jennifer Smith To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Subject: [Psych3120] Instrumental Music Some people can read while instrumental music is playing in the background, but if the music has words, they find it distracting. Why might that be? It could be that music with words takes more attention to listen to, but I think another explanation is more likely. It may be that these people cannot help but process the words semantically. Semantic processing of spoken or sung words may be automatic. Processing the meaning of the sung words interferes with processing the words that are read. Thus it is not that music with words takes more attention to listen to; rather the words are processed regardless of whether you want them to be, and this interferes with reading. --------------------------------- Luggage? GPS? Comic books? Check out fitting gifts for grads at Yahoo! Search.From: erica smith To: cognitive psych blog Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 16:12:55 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] (no subject) .hmmessage P { margin:0px; padding:0px } body.hmmessage { FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma } Does anyone know if there is a major difference between gender and focusing on driving while talking on the phone? Or if there is a significant difference between gender in any type of situation where multi-tasking and attentional focus are involved? erica smith --------------------------------- Explore the seven wonders of the world Learn more! From: "Diana Alleman" To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 23:10:51 +0000 Subject: [Psych3120] Diana Alleman Topic: Slips by Time of Day I am curious to know how many people participated in the Slips By Time Of Day study? And how exactly it would go reported in the diary? Would a diary be carried around with person for a day while every time they made this type of error they would document the time and activity? That seems like a difficult task to report on. I usually tend to forget that I made a slip minutes after it occurs. Or in fact, sometimes I dont recall consciously doing anything wrong. Some slips are so small and go unnoticed. From: "JAMES C HINCKLE" To: "Psych 3120-Modes \(Cog. Psych\)" Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 17:46:15 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] Julie Hinckle: Mode Errors I agree with Megan G. when she said that memory slips and lapses seem to occur when she is tired or overly stressed. When we are worried about something or anxious (i.e. an exam or being late for work) our attention is primarily focused on that one particular thing. This reminds me of Bill, in the article "An Act of God". Here was someone who had never faced an actual emergency of this magnitude before. He had practiced what to do if an emergency should ever occur, but because stress took over, he began to lose his good judgment and made a series of mode errors (which are right actions made in the wrong context). In lecture, we discussed mode errors using the example that on two separate occasions, pilots shut down the wrong engine in their planes which caused both to crash. It appears when humans are placed in an emergency situation, stress and/or fear is not being filtered out properly and mistakes are made. I am not sure if this occurrence is due to inexperience or is it due to how a particular person deals with a stressful event. In Bill's case, I would say his mistakes were due to both inexperience and anxiety. Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 19:47:16 -0600 From: "Andrea Stark" To: "psych 3120" Subject: [Psych3120] (no subject) The other day when we were discussing the human factors stuff was really interesting. I especially found the part about the medical field, and anesthesiology, interesting. I have a friend whose mom went through open heart surgery a few years ago and she talked about her experience afterward. She told me that when she was in surgery, a point came where she was completely aware of the pain but could do nothing to indicate it because she had no ability to talk or move. She said it was the most horrible experience and I can imagine that it was because open heart surgery has got to be incredibly painful if you haven't gotten the right drug dosage. I found it very reassuring to see the advanced drug display technology that is being developed to ensure that correct dosages are administered and maintained and that human errors are reduced during surgical procedures so that more people don't have to go through what my friend's mom did. Too bad these monitors weren't around to help in her case. _______________________________________________ Psych3120 mailing list Psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/listinfo.cgi/psych3120 --------------------------------- Don't let your dream ride pass you by. Make it a reality with Yahoo! Autos. _______________________________________________ Psych3120 mailing list Psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/listinfo.cgi/psych3120 --------------------------------- Take the Internet to Go: Yahoo!Go puts the Internet in your pocket: mail, news, photos & more. --0-1608308937-1191380464=:66152 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
I have loved the material in this course, it has been fascinating and is fun to think about and try to reason out in my head. Every once in a while I get stuck on a song and cannot figure it out how I got it in my head. Finally after asking somebody they'll tell me when I probably would have heard it (somebody else in a different conversation was singing it while I was talking it to someone else). Selective attention explains how I could not even have known that I heard it and suddenly I am singing it to myself. To me this proves more that a lot of information gets in our head that isn't consciously processed.
Joe

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From: Megan Gertsch <meganmwg@yahoo.com>
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Subject: [Psych3120] listening to music while reading

I am one of those people that can read while listening to music as long as there is no singing. A lot of the time I actually have to listen to music without lyrics when I read. The music seems to drown out all the other background noise, like neighbors arguing, babies crying or the TV in another room. This makes me think of Treisman's Attenuation Theory. I think that the music helps me turn down the volume (or attenuate) the other noises and then the words that I am reading don't have to compete for my attention with the words that I am hearing (from a song or the neighbors or the TV) because they have been attenuated I can't really process them. Although I'm sure I would still notice if I heard my name coming from the TV.
 
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Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2007 21:36:35 +0000
Subject: [Psych3120] achromatopsia - Melissa Priest

I found "The Case of the Colorblind Painter" very interesting. Especially
the fact that Mr. I. not only lost his ability to see color, but he also
lost the ability to imagine and remember colors. For example the color, or
lack of color, in food made it very difficult for him to maintain his
appetite. Even when he closed his eyes when eating say a tomato, which he
could recognize by taste, he could only visualize a black tomato.

I closed my eyes and tried to visualize a particular color. I couldn't do
it. I only saw black as a result of the lack of light. I asked a friend to
try the same and she said she was able to picture a color. I was able to
see color when imagining a scene, for example I could think of grass and see
green. But, I couldn't just think green and see green. I could think of
sensations in relationship to certain colors - such as warmth with yellow
and red and cold with blue - even in the absence of a visual picture of the
color. Why such sensations were associated with particular colors is I
guess something learned from the culture in which I have been raised. I
wonder the different sensations experienced in different cultures. I would
also be interested in learning more about how different languages categorize
and name colors and how that results in different perceptions of color
between people.


Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 10:29:26 -0700 (PDT)
From: Joseph Boyer <joeboyer31@yahoo.com>
To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu
Subject: [Psych3120] Re: Psych3120 digest, Vol 1 #1062 - 5 msgs

I for some reason am having a hard time completely distinguishing between top-down and bottom-up processing. What do you all think of this? An example of top-down would be like the halloween decorations where I work. There are letters that spell HALLOWEEN out of pictures of skeletons and other halloween characters. The characters are bent in shapes to form letters. People recognize these and can read them because of top-down processing. Is this right?

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Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 12:44:13 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: [Psych3120] Instrumental Music

Some people can read while instrumental music is playing in the background, but if the music has words, they find it distracting. Why might that be?
 
It could be that music with words takes more attention to listen to, but I think another explanation is more likely. It may be that these people cannot help but process the words semantically. Semantic processing of spoken or sung words may be automatic. Processing the meaning of the sung words interferes with processing the words that are read. Thus it is not that music with words takes more attention to listen to; rather the words are processed regardless of whether you want them to be, and this interferes with reading.
 
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Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 16:12:55 -0600
Subject: [Psych3120] (no subject)

Does anyone know if there is a major difference between gender and focusing on driving while talking on the phone?  Or if there is a significant difference between gender in any type of situation where multi-tasking and attentional focus are involved?

erica smith

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To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 23:10:51 +0000
Subject: [Psych3120] Diana Alleman

Topic: Slips by Time of Day

I am curious to know how many people participated in the Slips By Time Of
Day study? And how exactly it would go reported in the diary? Would a diary
be carried around with person for a day while every time they made this type
of error they would document the time and activity? That seems like a
difficult task to report on. I usually tend to forget that I made a slip
minutes after it occurs. Or in fact, sometimes I dont recall consciously
doing anything wrong. Some slips are so small and go unnoticed.


From: "JAMES C HINCKLE" <jimandjulie@msn.com>
To: "Psych 3120-Modes \(Cog. Psych\)" <psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu>
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 17:46:15 -0600
Subject: [Psych3120] Julie Hinckle: Mode Errors

I agree with Megan G. when she said that memory slips and lapses seem to occur when she is tired or overly stressed.  When we are worried about something or anxious (i.e. an exam or being late for work) our attention is primarily focused on that one particular thing.  This reminds me of Bill, in the article "An Act of God".  Here was someone who had never faced an actual emergency of this magnitude before.  He had practiced what to do if an emergency should ever occur, but because stress took over, he began to lose his good judgment and made a series of mode errors (which are right actions made in the wrong context).  In lecture, we discussed mode errors using the example that on two separate occasions, pilots shut down the wrong engine in their planes which caused both to crash.  It appears when humans are placed in an emergency situation, stress and/or fear is not being filtered out properly and mistakes are made.  I am not sure if this occurrence is due to inexperience or is it due to how a particular person deals with a stressful event.  In Bill's case, I would say his mistakes were due to both inexperience and anxiety.     
 
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 19:47:16 -0600
From: "Andrea Stark" <a.stark@utah.edu>
To: "psych 3120" <psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu>
Subject: [Psych3120] (no subject)

The other day when we were discussing the human factors stuff was really interesting. I especially found the part about the medical field, and anesthesiology, interesting. I have a friend whose mom went through open heart surgery a few years ago and she talked about her experience afterward. She told me that when she was in surgery, a point came where she was completely aware of the pain but could do nothing to indicate it because she had no ability to talk or move. She said it was the most horrible experience and I can imagine that it was because open heart surgery has got to be incredibly painful if you haven't gotten the right drug dosage. I found it very reassuring to see the advanced drug display technology that is being developed to ensure that correct dosages are administered and maintained and that human errors are reduced during surgical procedures so that more people don't have to go through what my friend's mom did. Too bad these monitors weren't around to help in her case.
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Take the Internet to Go: Yahoo!Go puts the Internet in your pocket: mail, news, photos & more. --0-1608308937-1191380464=:66152-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Wed Oct 3 04:01:37 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Joseph Boyer) Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 20:01:37 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Psych3120] Re: Psych3120 digest, Vol 1 #1063 - 3 msgs In-Reply-To: <200710021803.l92I2Xww006173@topo.csbs.utah.edu> Message-ID: <204634.33828.qm@web56911.mail.re3.yahoo.com> --0-681980575-1191380497=:33828 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I have loved the material in this course, it has been fascinating and is fun to think about and try to reason out in my head. Every once in a while I get stuck on a song and cannot figure it out how I got it in my head. Finally after asking somebody they'll tell me when I probably would have heard it (somebody else in a different conversation was singing it while I was talking it to someone else). Selective attention explains how I could not even have known that I heard it and suddenly I am singing it to myself. To me this proves more that a lot of information gets in our head that isn't consciously processed. Joe psych3120-request@lists.csbs.utah.edu wrote: 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. listening to music while reading (Megan Gertsch) 2. achromatopsia - Melissa Priest (Melissa Priest) 3. Re: Psych3120 digest, Vol 1 #1062 - 5 msgs (Joseph Boyer) Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 14:40:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Megan Gertsch To: psych 3120 Subject: [Psych3120] listening to music while reading I am one of those people that can read while listening to music as long as there is no singing. A lot of the time I actually have to listen to music without lyrics when I read. The music seems to drown out all the other background noise, like neighbors arguing, babies crying or the TV in another room. This makes me think of Treisman's Attenuation Theory. I think that the music helps me turn down the volume (or attenuate) the other noises and then the words that I am reading don't have to compete for my attention with the words that I am hearing (from a song or the neighbors or the TV) because they have been attenuated I can't really process them. Although I'm sure I would still notice if I heard my name coming from the TV. Megan Gertsch --------------------------------- Building a website is a piece of cake. Yahoo! Small Business gives you all the tools to get online.From: "Melissa Priest" To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2007 21:36:35 +0000 Subject: [Psych3120] achromatopsia - Melissa Priest I found "The Case of the Colorblind Painter" very interesting. Especially the fact that Mr. I. not only lost his ability to see color, but he also lost the ability to imagine and remember colors. For example the color, or lack of color, in food made it very difficult for him to maintain his appetite. Even when he closed his eyes when eating say a tomato, which he could recognize by taste, he could only visualize a black tomato. I closed my eyes and tried to visualize a particular color. I couldn't do it. I only saw black as a result of the lack of light. I asked a friend to try the same and she said she was able to picture a color. I was able to see color when imagining a scene, for example I could think of grass and see green. But, I couldn't just think green and see green. I could think of sensations in relationship to certain colors - such as warmth with yellow and red and cold with blue - even in the absence of a visual picture of the color. Why such sensations were associated with particular colors is I guess something learned from the culture in which I have been raised. I wonder the different sensations experienced in different cultures. I would also be interested in learning more about how different languages categorize and name colors and how that results in different perceptions of color between people. Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 10:29:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Joseph Boyer To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Subject: [Psych3120] Re: Psych3120 digest, Vol 1 #1062 - 5 msgs I for some reason am having a hard time completely distinguishing between top-down and bottom-up processing. What do you all think of this? An example of top-down would be like the halloween decorations where I work. There are letters that spell HALLOWEEN out of pictures of skeletons and other halloween characters. The characters are bent in shapes to form letters. People recognize these and can read them because of top-down processing. Is this right? psych3120-request@lists.csbs.utah.edu wrote: 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. Instrumental Music (Jennifer Smith) 2. (no subject) (erica smith) 3. Diana Alleman (Diana Alleman) 4. Julie Hinckle: Mode Errors (JAMES C HINCKLE) 5. (no subject) (Andrea Stark) Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 12:44:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Jennifer Smith To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Subject: [Psych3120] Instrumental Music Some people can read while instrumental music is playing in the background, but if the music has words, they find it distracting. Why might that be? It could be that music with words takes more attention to listen to, but I think another explanation is more likely. It may be that these people cannot help but process the words semantically. Semantic processing of spoken or sung words may be automatic. Processing the meaning of the sung words interferes with processing the words that are read. Thus it is not that music with words takes more attention to listen to; rather the words are processed regardless of whether you want them to be, and this interferes with reading. --------------------------------- Luggage? GPS? Comic books? Check out fitting gifts for grads at Yahoo! Search.From: erica smith To: cognitive psych blog Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 16:12:55 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] (no subject) .hmmessage P { margin:0px; padding:0px } body.hmmessage { FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma } Does anyone know if there is a major difference between gender and focusing on driving while talking on the phone? Or if there is a significant difference between gender in any type of situation where multi-tasking and attentional focus are involved? erica smith --------------------------------- Explore the seven wonders of the world Learn more! From: "Diana Alleman" To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 23:10:51 +0000 Subject: [Psych3120] Diana Alleman Topic: Slips by Time of Day I am curious to know how many people participated in the Slips By Time Of Day study? And how exactly it would go reported in the diary? Would a diary be carried around with person for a day while every time they made this type of error they would document the time and activity? That seems like a difficult task to report on. I usually tend to forget that I made a slip minutes after it occurs. Or in fact, sometimes I dont recall consciously doing anything wrong. Some slips are so small and go unnoticed. From: "JAMES C HINCKLE" To: "Psych 3120-Modes \(Cog. Psych\)" Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 17:46:15 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] Julie Hinckle: Mode Errors I agree with Megan G. when she said that memory slips and lapses seem to occur when she is tired or overly stressed. When we are worried about something or anxious (i.e. an exam or being late for work) our attention is primarily focused on that one particular thing. This reminds me of Bill, in the article "An Act of God". Here was someone who had never faced an actual emergency of this magnitude before. He had practiced what to do if an emergency should ever occur, but because stress took over, he began to lose his good judgment and made a series of mode errors (which are right actions made in the wrong context). In lecture, we discussed mode errors using the example that on two separate occasions, pilots shut down the wrong engine in their planes which caused both to crash. It appears when humans are placed in an emergency situation, stress and/or fear is not being filtered out properly and mistakes are made. I am not sure if this occurrence is due to inexperience or is it due to how a particular person deals with a stressful event. In Bill's case, I would say his mistakes were due to both inexperience and anxiety. Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 19:47:16 -0600 From: "Andrea Stark" To: "psych 3120" Subject: [Psych3120] (no subject) The other day when we were discussing the human factors stuff was really interesting. I especially found the part about the medical field, and anesthesiology, interesting. I have a friend whose mom went through open heart surgery a few years ago and she talked about her experience afterward. She told me that when she was in surgery, a point came where she was completely aware of the pain but could do nothing to indicate it because she had no ability to talk or move. She said it was the most horrible experience and I can imagine that it was because open heart surgery has got to be incredibly painful if you haven't gotten the right drug dosage. I found it very reassuring to see the advanced drug display technology that is being developed to ensure that correct dosages are administered and maintained and that human errors are reduced during surgical procedures so that more people don't have to go through what my friend's mom did. Too bad these monitors weren't around to help in her case. _______________________________________________ Psych3120 mailing list Psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/listinfo.cgi/psych3120 --------------------------------- Don't let your dream ride pass you by. Make it a reality with Yahoo! Autos. _______________________________________________ Psych3120 mailing list Psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/listinfo.cgi/psych3120 --------------------------------- Building a website is a piece of cake. Yahoo! Small Business gives you all the tools to get online. --0-681980575-1191380497=:33828 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
I have loved the material in this course, it has been fascinating and is fun to think about and try to reason out in my head. Every once in a while I get stuck on a song and cannot figure it out how I got it in my head. Finally after asking somebody they'll tell me when I probably would have heard it (somebody else in a different conversation was singing it while I was talking it to someone else). Selective attention explains how I could not even have known that I heard it and suddenly I am singing it to myself. To me this proves more that a lot of information gets in our head that isn't consciously processed.
Joe

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Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 14:40:48 -0700 (PDT)
From: Megan Gertsch <meganmwg@yahoo.com>
To: psych 3120 <psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu>
Subject: [Psych3120] listening to music while reading

I am one of those people that can read while listening to music as long as there is no singing. A lot of the time I actually have to listen to music without lyrics when I read. The music seems to drown out all the other background noise, like neighbors arguing, babies crying or the TV in another room. This makes me think of Treisman's Attenuation Theory. I think that the music helps me turn down the volume (or attenuate) the other noises and then the words that I am reading don't have to compete for my attention with the words that I am hearing (from a song or the neighbors or the TV) because they have been attenuated I can't really process them. Although I'm sure I would still notice if I heard my name coming from the TV.
 
Megan Gertsch
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Yahoo! Small Business gives you all the tools to get online.From: "Melissa Priest" <melissadawn_pl@msn.com>
To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2007 21:36:35 +0000
Subject: [Psych3120] achromatopsia - Melissa Priest

I found "The Case of the Colorblind Painter" very interesting. Especially
the fact that Mr. I. not only lost his ability to see color, but he also
lost the ability to imagine and remember colors. For example the color, or
lack of color, in food made it very difficult for him to maintain his
appetite. Even when he closed his eyes when eating say a tomato, which he
could recognize by taste, he could only visualize a black tomato.

I closed my eyes and tried to visualize a particular color. I couldn't do
it. I only saw black as a result of the lack of light. I asked a friend to
try the same and she said she was able to picture a color. I was able to
see color when imagining a scene, for example I could think of grass and see
green. But, I couldn't just think green and see green. I could think of
sensations in relationship to certain colors - such as warmth with yellow
and red and cold with blue - even in the absence of a visual picture of the
color. Why such sensations were associated with particular colors is I
guess something learned from the culture in which I have been raised. I
wonder the different sensations experienced in different cultures. I would
also be interested in learning more about how different languages categorize
and name colors and how that results in different perceptions of color
between people.


Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 10:29:26 -0700 (PDT)
From: Joseph Boyer <joeboyer31@yahoo.com>
To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu
Subject: [Psych3120] Re: Psych3120 digest, Vol 1 #1062 - 5 msgs

I for some reason am having a hard time completely distinguishing between top-down and bottom-up processing. What do you all think of this? An example of top-down would be like the halloween decorations where I work. There are letters that spell HALLOWEEN out of pictures of skeletons and other halloween characters. The characters are bent in shapes to form letters. People recognize these and can read them because of top-down processing. Is this right?

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4. Julie Hinckle: Mode Errors (JAMES C HINCKLE)
5. (no subject) (Andrea Stark)
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 12:44:13 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jennifer Smith <jksmith742003@yahoo.com>
To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu
Subject: [Psych3120] Instrumental Music

Some people can read while instrumental music is playing in the background, but if the music has words, they find it distracting. Why might that be?
 
It could be that music with words takes more attention to listen to, but I think another explanation is more likely. It may be that these people cannot help but process the words semantically. Semantic processing of spoken or sung words may be automatic. Processing the meaning of the sung words interferes with processing the words that are read. Thus it is not that music with words takes more attention to listen to; rather the words are processed regardless of whether you want them to be, and this interferes with reading.
 
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Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 16:12:55 -0600
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Does anyone know if there is a major difference between gender and focusing on driving while talking on the phone?  Or if there is a significant difference between gender in any type of situation where multi-tasking and attentional focus are involved?

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Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 23:10:51 +0000
Subject: [Psych3120] Diana Alleman

Topic: Slips by Time of Day

I am curious to know how many people participated in the Slips By Time Of
Day study? And how exactly it would go reported in the diary? Would a diary
be carried around with person for a day while every time they made this type
of error they would document the time and activity? That seems like a
difficult task to report on. I usually tend to forget that I made a slip
minutes after it occurs. Or in fact, sometimes I dont recall consciously
doing anything wrong. Some slips are so small and go unnoticed.


From: "JAMES C HINCKLE" <jimandjulie@msn.com>
To: "Psych 3120-Modes \(Cog. Psych\)" <psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu>
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 17:46:15 -0600
Subject: [Psych3120] Julie Hinckle: Mode Errors

I agree with Megan G. when she said that memory slips and lapses seem to occur when she is tired or overly stressed.  When we are worried about something or anxious (i.e. an exam or being late for work) our attention is primarily focused on that one particular thing.  This reminds me of Bill, in the article "An Act of God".  Here was someone who had never faced an actual emergency of this magnitude before.  He had practiced what to do if an emergency should ever occur, but because stress took over, he began to lose his good judgment and made a series of mode errors (which are right actions made in the wrong context).  In lecture, we discussed mode errors using the example that on two separate occasions, pilots shut down the wrong engine in their planes which caused both to crash.  It appears when humans are placed in an emergency situation, stress and/or fear is not being filtered out properly and mistakes are made.  I am not sure if this occurrence is due to inexperience or is it due to how a particular person deals with a stressful event.  In Bill's case, I would say his mistakes were due to both inexperience and anxiety.     
 
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 19:47:16 -0600
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Subject: [Psych3120] (no subject)

The other day when we were discussing the human factors stuff was really interesting. I especially found the part about the medical field, and anesthesiology, interesting. I have a friend whose mom went through open heart surgery a few years ago and she talked about her experience afterward. She told me that when she was in surgery, a point came where she was completely aware of the pain but could do nothing to indicate it because she had no ability to talk or move. She said it was the most horrible experience and I can imagine that it was because open heart surgery has got to be incredibly painful if you haven't gotten the right drug dosage. I found it very reassuring to see the advanced drug display technology that is being developed to ensure that correct dosages are administered and maintained and that human errors are reduced during surgical procedures so that more people don't have to go through what my friend's mom did. Too bad these monitors weren't around to help in her case.
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Yahoo! Small Business gives you all the tools to get online. --0-681980575-1191380497=:33828-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Wed Oct 3 05:09:22 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (william sheltowt) Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 22:09:22 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] Question #1 Message-ID: <8162db450710022109r2a7b6b8el97ecc4bc3063c5fe@mail.gmail.com> ------=_Part_21723_27644343.1191384562645 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline I think that this is the most complicated question for me so I thought I would give it a shot it my weekly writing. The light reflecting off of the butterfly would enter the eye as sensory information. The lens cornea and pupil would direct the light on to the rods and cones of the retina. The image presented on the bag of the retina would be upside down and backwards. This information would travel through the optic nerve and into the occipital lobe. The process of perception would then begin. This movement information of the butterfly would be processed along the magnocellular pathway, and in the parietal lobe. The information of the shape of the butterfly, as well as the color of the plant would be processed along the parocellular pathway, and in the temporal lobe. I hope this question is not on the test. Bill SHelton ------=_Part_21723_27644343.1191384562645 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline I think that this is the most complicated question for me so I thought I would give it a shot it my weekly writing.

The light reflecting off of the butterfly would enter the eye as sensory information.  The lens cornea and pupil would direct the light on to the rods and cones of the retina.  The image presented on the bag of the retina would be upside down and backwards.  This information would travel through the optic nerve and into the occipital lobe.  The process of perception would then begin.  This movement information of the butterfly would be processed along the magnocellular pathway, and in the parietal lobe.  The information of the shape of the butterfly, as well as the color of the plant would be processed along the parocellular pathway, and in the temporal lobe.   I hope this question is not on the test.

Bill SHelton
------=_Part_21723_27644343.1191384562645-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Wed Oct 3 05:12:49 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Natalie Peatmoss) Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 21:12:49 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Psych3120] Natalie Peatross Message-ID: <953341.57451.qm@web51504.mail.re2.yahoo.com> --0-756785894-1191384769=:57451 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I am so frustrated. I am afraid the test will be more complex then I realize. I had a friend who took the class last fall and she studied so much and said she always ran out of time when taking Dr. Strayer's tests. She says that he is looking for tons of information in the essays. I wrote out a couple of the essays and I know if he picks the ones I studied then I will do ok...but if he picks the ones I didn't study as well, I think I might not write down as much information as he wants. I hope he sees that even if my essay is only half a page and full of good information then I will still get full points. I had to leave during the review and I hope I didn't miss anything important like a hint to which essays he is going to use??? I have gone over the slides a couple times and there is just sooooo much information. Hopefully because I am expecting the worst it will turn out to be a piece of cake. --------------------------------- Be a better Heartthrob. Get better relationship answers from someone who knows. Yahoo! Answers - Check it out. --0-756785894-1191384769=:57451 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
I am so frustrated. I am afraid the test will be more complex then I realize. I had a friend who took the class last fall and she studied so much and said she always ran out of time when taking Dr. Strayer's tests.  She says that he is looking for tons of information in the essays. I wrote out a couple of the essays and I know if he picks the ones I studied then I will do ok...but if he picks the ones I didn't study as well, I think I might not write down as much information as he wants. I hope he sees that even if my essay is only half a page and full of good information then I will still get full points.  I had to leave during the review and I hope I didn't miss anything important like a hint to which essays he is going to use??? I have gone over the slides a couple times and there is just sooooo much information. Hopefully because I am expecting the worst it will turn out to be a piece of cake.

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Boo!=A0Scare away worms, viru= ses and so much more! Try Windows Live OneCare! Try now! = --_469ba4ab-c4f0-44b3-9ac8-35d9b9da10d8_-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Wed Oct 3 16:53:41 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Megan Larsen) Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 09:53:41 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] Natalie Peatross In-Reply-To: <953341.57451.qm@web51504.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Message-ID: I am stressed out too! And extremely nervous! There was no hint as to what essays would be on the test :( I wish...then I could stop having a nervous breakdown over it! >From: Natalie Peatmoss >Reply-To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu >To: cognitive >Subject: [Psych3120] Natalie Peatross >Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 21:12:49 -0700 (PDT) > >I am so frustrated. I am afraid the test will be more complex then I >realize. I had a friend who took the class last fall and she studied so >much and said she always ran out of time when taking Dr. Strayer's tests. >She says that he is looking for tons of information in the essays. I wrote >out a couple of the essays and I know if he picks the ones I studied then I >will do ok...but if he picks the ones I didn't study as well, I think I >might not write down as much information as he wants. I hope he sees that >even if my essay is only half a page and full of good information then I >will still get full points. I had to leave during the review and I hope I >didn't miss anything important like a hint to which essays he is going to >use??? I have gone over the slides a couple times and there is just sooooo >much information. Hopefully because I am expecting the worst it will turn >out to be a piece of cake. > > >--------------------------------- >Be a better Heartthrob. Get better relationship answers from someone who >knows. >Yahoo! Answers - Check it out. From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Wed Oct 3 20:44:59 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Joseph Boyer) Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 12:44:59 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Psych3120] Re: Psych3120 digest, Vol 1 #1066 - 4 msgs In-Reply-To: <200710031803.l93I2XO1029544@topo.csbs.utah.edu> Message-ID: <859371.49331.qm@web56902.mail.re3.yahoo.com> --0-887618502-1191440699=:49331 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit This class continually explains things to me that I wonder about. Slips, lapses, and mode errors answer a lot of questions in my mind about myself. I used to get really self-conscious because half way through my day I would have no recollection if I had put on deodorant that morning. I realized I probably had because it is part of my routine but had no memory of it. It must runin my family, my sister has some weird mode errors. One time she was unwrapping fruit snakcs when her phone rang. She hurried and unwrapped the fruit snacks, threw them nto the garbage, put the wrapper to her ear and put the phone in her mouth and bit down. i'm glad to haqve learned what is actually going on whenthat stuff happens. psych3120-request@lists.csbs.utah.edu wrote: 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. Question #1 (william sheltowt) 2. Natalie Peatross (Natalie Peatmoss) 3. Photoreceptors (Spenser Harris) 4. RE: Natalie Peatross (Megan Larsen) Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 22:09:22 -0600 From: "william sheltowt" To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Subject: [Psych3120] Question #1 I think that this is the most complicated question for me so I thought I would give it a shot it my weekly writing. The light reflecting off of the butterfly would enter the eye as sensory information. The lens cornea and pupil would direct the light on to the rods and cones of the retina. The image presented on the bag of the retina would be upside down and backwards. This information would travel through the optic nerve and into the occipital lobe. The process of perception would then begin. This movement information of the butterfly would be processed along the magnocellular pathway, and in the parietal lobe. The information of the shape of the butterfly, as well as the color of the plant would be processed along the parocellular pathway, and in the temporal lobe. I hope this question is not on the test. Bill SHelton Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 21:12:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Natalie Peatmoss To: cognitive Subject: [Psych3120] Natalie Peatross I am so frustrated. I am afraid the test will be more complex then I realize. I had a friend who took the class last fall and she studied so much and said she always ran out of time when taking Dr. Strayer's tests. She says that he is looking for tons of information in the essays. I wrote out a couple of the essays and I know if he picks the ones I studied then I will do ok...but if he picks the ones I didn't study as well, I think I might not write down as much information as he wants. I hope he sees that even if my essay is only half a page and full of good information then I will still get full points. I had to leave during the review and I hope I didn't miss anything important like a hint to which essays he is going to use??? I have gone over the slides a couple times and there is just sooooo much information. Hopefully because I am expecting the worst it will turn out to be a piece of cake. --------------------------------- Be a better Heartthrob. Get better relationship answers from someone who knows. Yahoo! Answers - Check it out. From: Spenser Harris To: Cognitive Psych Message Board Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 00:15:47 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] Photoreceptors .hmmessage P { margin:0px; padding:0px } body.hmmessage { FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma } In case anyone else was wondering, on Monday Oct. 1st, I asked Ryan whether or not photoreceptors were cells. This whole time, I had been under the impression that they weres, but I wasn't sure. He told me that they were in fact multicellular structures, being made up of many cells, but not enought to be considered organs. --------------------------------- Boo! Scare away worms, viruses and so much more! Try Windows Live OneCare! Try now! From: "Megan Larsen" To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Subject: RE: [Psych3120] Natalie Peatross Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 09:53:41 -0600 I am stressed out too! And extremely nervous! There was no hint as to what essays would be on the test :( I wish...then I could stop having a nervous breakdown over it! >From: Natalie Peatmoss >Reply-To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu >To: cognitive >Subject: [Psych3120] Natalie Peatross >Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 21:12:49 -0700 (PDT) > >I am so frustrated. I am afraid the test will be more complex then I >realize. I had a friend who took the class last fall and she studied so >much and said she always ran out of time when taking Dr. Strayer's tests. >She says that he is looking for tons of information in the essays. I wrote >out a couple of the essays and I know if he picks the ones I studied then I >will do ok...but if he picks the ones I didn't study as well, I think I >might not write down as much information as he wants. I hope he sees that >even if my essay is only half a page and full of good information then I >will still get full points. I had to leave during the review and I hope I >didn't miss anything important like a hint to which essays he is going to >use??? I have gone over the slides a couple times and there is just sooooo >much information. Hopefully because I am expecting the worst it will turn >out to be a piece of cake. > > >--------------------------------- >Be a better Heartthrob. Get better relationship answers from someone who >knows. >Yahoo! Answers - Check it out. _______________________________________________ Psych3120 mailing list Psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/listinfo.cgi/psych3120 --------------------------------- Tonight's top picks. What will you watch tonight? Preview the hottest shows on Yahoo! 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4. RE: Natalie Peatross (Megan Larsen)
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 22:09:22 -0600
From: "william sheltowt" <sheltowt@gmail.com>
To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu
Subject: [Psych3120] Question #1

I think that this is the most complicated question for me so I thought I would give it a shot it my weekly writing.

The light reflecting off of the butterfly would enter the eye as sensory information.  The lens cornea and pupil would direct the light on to the rods and cones of the retina.  The image presented on the bag of the retina would be upside down and backwards.  This information would travel through the optic nerve and into the occipital lobe.  The process of perception would then begin.  This movement information of the butterfly would be processed along the magnocellular pathway, and in the parietal lobe.  The information of the shape of the butterfly, as well as the color of the plant would be processed along the parocellular pathway, and in the temporal lobe.   I hope this question is not on the test.

Bill SHelton
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 21:12:49 -0700 (PDT)
From: Natalie Peatmoss <snortstd@yahoo.com>
To: cognitive <psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu>
Subject: [Psych3120] Natalie Peatross

I am so frustrated. I am afraid the test will be more complex then I realize. I had a friend who took the class last fall and she studied so much and said she always ran out of time when taking Dr. Strayer's tests.  She says that he is looking for tons of information in the essays. I wrote out a couple of the essays and I know if he picks the ones I studied then I will do ok...but if he picks the ones I didn't study as well, I think I might not write down as much information as he wants. I hope he sees that even if my essay is only half a page and full of good information then I will still get full points.  I had to leave during the review and I hope I didn't miss anything important like a hint to which essays he is going to use??? I have gone over the slides a couple times and there is just sooooo much information. Hopefully because I am expecting the worst it will turn out to be a piece of cake.
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Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 00:15:47 -0600
Subject: [Psych3120] Photoreceptors

In case anyone else was wondering, on Monday Oct. 1st, I asked Ryan whether or not photoreceptors were cells. This whole time, I had been under the impression that they weres, but I wasn't sure. He told me that they were in fact multicellular structures, being made up of many cells, but not enought to be considered organs.
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Subject: RE: [Psych3120] Natalie Peatross
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 09:53:41 -0600

I am stressed out too! And extremely nervous! There was no hint as to what
essays would be on the test :( I wish...then I could stop having a nervous
breakdown over it!


>From: Natalie Peatmoss
>Reply-To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu
>To: cognitive
>Subject: [Psych3120] Natalie Peatross
>Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 21:12:49 -0700 (PDT)
>
>I am so frustrated. I am afraid the test will be more complex then I
>realize. I had a friend who took the class last fall and she studied so
>much and said she always ran out of time when taking Dr. Strayer's tests.
>She says that he is looking for tons of information in the essays. I wrote
>out a couple of the essays and I know if he picks the ones I studied then I
>will do ok...but if he picks the ones I didn't study as well, I think I
>might not write down as much information as he wants. I hope he sees that
>even if my essay is only half a page and full of good information then I
>will still get full points. I had to leave during the review and I hope I
>didn't miss anything important like a hint to which essays he is going to
>use??? I have gone over the slides a couple times and there is just sooooo
>much information. Hopefully because I am expecting the worst it will turn
>out to be a piece of cake.
>
>
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Tonight's top picks. What will you watch tonight? Preview the hottest shows on Yahoo! TV. --0-887618502-1191440699=:49331-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Thu Oct 4 01:17:15 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Charles Lincoln Allen) Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 18:17:15 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] Vision through Rods (Charles Allen) Message-ID: <53B33451F353DC4784145300898D36CC701A67@CAMPUSV4.xds.umail.utah.edu> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C8061B.EB33AA56 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I was at the ballet showcase the other night and during one piece the = back of the stage was dark and a person was back there waiting to come = forward. Because it was dark I couldn't see him if I looked directly at = him, but if I looked slightly to the side I could just make him out. I = found this neat because I haven't seen the vanishing star thing that we = talked about but this was the same idea. Because when I looked slightly = off the image fell on the periphery of my retina and activated the rods. = It was fun.=20 ------_=_NextPart_001_01C8061B.EB33AA56 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Vision through Rods (Charles Allen)

I was at the ballet showcase the other night and = during one piece the back of the stage was dark and a person was back = there waiting to come forward. Because it was dark I couldn't see him if = I looked directly at him, but if I looked slightly to the side I could = just make him out. I found this neat because I haven't seen the = vanishing star thing that we talked about but this was the same idea. = Because when I looked slightly off the image fell on the periphery of my = retina and activated the rods. It was fun.

------_=_NextPart_001_01C8061B.EB33AA56-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Thu Oct 4 05:50:14 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Andrea Kalvesmaki) Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 21:50:14 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Psych3120] Fwd: FW: A Reading Exercise........... Message-ID: <739891.28862.qm@web38904.mail.mud.yahoo.com> --0-492610158-1191473414=:28862 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Id: Content-Disposition: inline Hi all- funny, now that the exam is done, I had a friend send me this and thought I would pass it on... it is pretty much an example of how top-down processing can help you read... for those that can read it, that is. > > > _____ > > Subject: Can you read this? > > > > > > > > Only great minds can read this > > > > > > This is weird, but interesting! > > > > > > fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too > > > > Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can. > > > > 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 dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the > ltteres in a wrod are, the > olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat > ltteer be in the rghit > pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can > sitll raed it whotuit a > pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not > raed ervey lteter by > istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh > and I awlyas tghuhot > slpeling was ipmorantt! if you can raed tihs forwrad > it. > > --0-492610158-1191473414=:28862 Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name=Header Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Description: pat533422439 Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=Header UmV0dXJuLXBhdGg6IDxqc2NoaWVmZXIyQGNvbWNhc3QubmV0Pg0KUmVjZWl2 ZWQ6IGZyb20gZ3VhcmRpYW4xLnNsY3NkLm5ldCAoWzIwNS4xMjcuNzIuNzdd KQ0KCWJ5IHNsYy5rMTIudXQudXMgd2l0aCBFU01UUDsgU3VuLCAyMyBTZXAg MjAwNyAxODoyOToxMiAtMDYwMA0KUmVjZWl2ZWQ6IGZyb20gc2Njcm1oYzEy LmNvbWNhc3QubmV0IChzY2NybWhjMTIuY29tY2FzdC5uZXQgWzYzLjI0MC43 Ny44Ml0pIGJ5IGd1YXJkaWFuMS5zbGNzZC5uZXQNCiAgKFRNQSBTTVRQUlMg NC40LjU2OC4wKSB3aXRoIEVTTVRQIGlkIDxCMDAwOTE0NzIzM0BndWFyZGlh bjEuc2xjc2QubmV0PjsNCiAgU3VuLCAyMyBTZXAgMjAwNyAxODoyODowNiAt MDYwMA0KUmVjZWl2ZWQtU1BGOiBub25lIChndWFyZGlhbjEuc2xjc2QubmV0 OiBkb21haW4gb2YganNjaGllZmVyMkBjb21jYXN0Lm5ldA0KIGRvZXMgbm90 IGRlc2lnbmF0ZSBhbnkgcGVybWl0dGVkIHNlbmRlcnMpDQpYLU1vZHVzLVJl dmVyc2VETlM6IE9LDQpYLU1vZHVzLUJsYWNrTGlzdDogNjMuMjQwLjc3Ljgy PU9LO2pzY2hpZWZlcjJAY29tY2FzdC5uZXQ9T0sNClgtTW9kdXMtUkJMOiA2 My4yNDAuNzcuODI9T0sNClgtTW9kdXMtVHJ1c3RlZDogNjMuMjQwLjc3Ljgy PU5PDQpYLU1vZHVzLUF1ZGl0OiBGQUxTRTswOzA7MA0KUmVjZWl2ZWQ6IGZy b20gZDNoM3JtNTEgKGMtNjctMTcxLTEyNy0xNC5oc2QxLmNvLmNvbWNhc3Qu bmV0WzY3LjE3MS4xMjcuMTRdKQ0KICAgICAgICAgIGJ5IGNvbWNhc3QubmV0 IChzY2NybWhjMTIpIHdpdGggU01UUA0KICAgICAgICAgIGlkIDwyMDA3MDky NDAwMjkwODAxMjAwNDRtNmJlPjsgTW9uLCAyNCBTZXAgMjAwNyAwMDoyOTow OCArMDAwMA0KRnJvbTogIkogU2NoaWVmZXIiIDxqc2NoaWVmZXIyQGNvbWNh c3QubmV0Pg0KVG86ICJKYW5pbmUgU21pdGggIiA8amFuaW5lLnNtaXRoQHNs Yy5rMTIudXQudXM+LA0KCSJBbm4gQ29vayAiIDxhbm4uY29va0BzbGMuazEy LnV0LnVzPiwNCgkiQmVja3kgUmVpbWVyIiA8YmVja3lyZWltZXJAY29tY2Fz dC5uZXQ+LA0KCSJMZXNsaWUgTW90bGV5IiA8bGVzbGllbW90bGV5QGNvbWNh c3QubmV0PiwNCgkiJ0xpbmRhIEh1bnNha2VyJyIgPGxpbmRhaHVuc2FrZXJA eWFob28uY29tPiwNCgkiUm9ubmllIFN0cmFzc2JlcmciIDxybHN0cmFzc2Jl cmdAaG90bWFpbC5jb20+LA0KCSJTaGFyb24gTXVpciIgPHNoYXJvbi5tdWly QGNvbWNhc3QubmV0Pg0KU3ViamVjdDogRlc6IEEgUmVhZGluZyBFeGVyY2lz ZS4uLi4uLi4uLi4uDQpEYXRlOiBTdW4sIDIzIFNlcCAyMDA3IDE4OjI5OjA4 IC0wNjAwDQpNZXNzYWdlLUlEOiA8MDAwNjAxYzdmZTQxJGVjNTE1MTMwJDY0 MDBhOGMwQEQzSDNSTTUxPg0KTUlNRS1WZXJzaW9uOiAxLjANCkNvbnRlbnQt VHlwZTogbXVsdGlwYXJ0L2FsdGVybmF0aXZlOw0KCWJvdW5kYXJ5PSItLS0t PV9OZXh0UGFydF8wMDBfMDAwN18wMUM3RkUwRi5BMUI2RTEzMCINClgtTWFp bGVyOiBNaWNyb3NvZnQgT2ZmaWNlIE91dGxvb2sgMTENClRocmVhZC1JbmRl eDogQWNmenpJK0RTSW5QUlIwNlRHeXZoOFkyZXUzR093SEpmNkt3DQpYLU1p bWVPTEU6IFByb2R1Y2VkIEJ5IE1pY3Jvc29mdCBNaW1lT0xFIFY2LjAwLjI5 MDAuMzEzOA0K --0-492610158-1191473414=:28862-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Thu Oct 4 09:57:25 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu) Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 04:57:25 -0400 Subject: [Psych3120] Judd Tingey - sleep deprivation and attention Message-ID: <8C9D47BB7F9F380-718-58@MBLK-M05.sysops.aol.com> ----------MB_8C9D47BB7F9F380_718_AE_MBLK-M05.sysops.aol.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Because of our test, I decided to stay up all night?to study.? So at this point in time I believe that I have been awake for 42 hours straight.? Anyway, before I continue, I want to apologize if this post appears disjointed or unorganized, but I am actually having trouble writing it.? I don't feel tired at all and I think this whole concept is very interesting and exciting. So after classes today and work today, I?noticed that I was having a lot of problems driving.? For one, I felt out of it and I was having trouble consciously paying attention.? I know that my attention was on the road and not the radio or anything like that, but it seemed like my short-term memory wasn't functioning as it normally would.? At one point on the way home a cat darted across the road.? Although my attention appeared to be diverted, my reaction time was not, and I immediately slammed on my brakes.? I was on a two-lane residential road, and I swerved from the right lane to the left lane to further avoid potentially hitting the cat.? After the rapid lane change, I realized that I had subconsciously made a bad decision.? Normally I wouldn't do such a thing so this struck me as unusual. Secondly, I was having noticeable hallucinations.? For example, a lot of the reflectors on the side of the road looked like police cars in the distance.? Also there were objects flashing across my periphery like animals or other cars.??And a?green garbage can looked like a deer.? Interestingly enough, all of these problems involved my perceptions.? I did note that I stayed in my lane, maintained my speed, and stopped promptly at red lights and stop signs.??I know this isn't official, but I thought I?would make note of it.? So basically what I'm wondering is: 1) What does sleep actually do? 2) what parts of the brain are affected by sleep deprivation? and 3) do stimulants like coffee, soda, or chocolate actually aid a person in cognitive functioning or do they just increase alertness? I did some basic research and it appears that there is a concensus that sleep is important, but I couldn't find an agreement as to why.? There are many different theories of what sleep does for a person.? Lack of sleep can cause some serious problems.? One study?illustrated that driving sleepy is the same as driving drunk.? I'd heard this?before?but I wasn't entirely sure how?it could be.? Well, apparently?after not sleeping for 17?to 19 hours?a person is impaired?to the point that they perform worse at driving than someone with a BAC of 0.05.? In another study, most of the participants did reasonably well when driving sleep deprived for the first two days.? By day three the numbers skyrocketed and steeply increased into day four.? More crashes, more lane excursions, and an increased average driving speed were all reported after day three.? This particular study stopped at day 4, but just to get an idea of what I'm talking about, in day one and two, the average number of car accidents was near zero.? By day three that number jumped to around 2.5 and by day four the average number of accidents was near eight. Going along?with question number three, what about agonist drugs? If perceptions are already altered, what would happen if someone drank some alcohol or smoked marijuana? Would the effects be intensified even if intoxication levels remained low? Overall I think this would be an interesting topic to delve into.? I'm thankful that I drove home in the middle of the night and nothing happened, but I will surely note the research next time and take a nap before I drive without sleep whether I'm tired or not. ________________________________________________________________________ Email and AIM finally together. 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Because of our test, I decided to stay up all night to study.  So at this point in time I believe that I have been awake for 42 hours straight.  Anyway, before I continue, I want to apologize if this post appears disjointed or unorganized, but I am actually having trouble writing it.  I don't feel tired at all and I think this whole concept is very interesting and exciting.

So after classes today and work today, I noticed that I was having a lot of problems driving.  For one, I felt out of it and I was having trouble consciously paying attention.  I know that my attention was on the road and not the radio or anything like that, but it seemed like my short-term memory wasn't functioning as it normally would.  At one point on the way home a cat darted across the road.  Although my attention appeared to be diverted, my reaction time was not, and I immediately slammed on my brakes.  I was on a two-lane residential road, and I swerved from the right lane to the left lane to further avoid potentially hitting the cat.  After the rapid lane change, I realized that I had subconsciously made a bad decision.  Normally I wouldn't do such a thing so this struck me as unusual.

Secondly, I was having noticeable hallucinations.  For example, a lot of the reflectors on the side of the road looked like police cars in the distance.  Also there were objects flashing across my periphery like animals or other cars.  And a green garbage can looked like a deer.  Interestingly enough, all of these problems involved my perceptions.  I did note that I stayed in my lane, maintained my speed, and stopped promptly at red lights and stop signs.  I know this isn't official, but I thought I would make note of it. 

So basically what I'm wondering is: 1) What does sleep actually do? 2) what parts of the brain are affected by sleep deprivation? and 3) do stimulants like coffee, soda, or chocolate actually aid a person in cognitive functioning or do they just increase alertness?

I did some basic research and it appears that there is a concensus that sleep is important, but I couldn't find an agreement as to why.  There are many different theories of what sleep does for a person.  Lack of sleep can cause some serious problems.  One study illustrated that driving sleepy is the same as driving drunk.  I'd heard this before but I wasn't entirely sure how it could be.  Well, apparently after not sleeping for 17 to 19 hours a person is impaired to the point that they perform worse at driving than someone with a BAC of 0.05.  In another study, most of the participants did reasonably well when driving sleep deprived for the first two days.  By day three the numbers skyrocketed and steeply increased into day four.  More crashes, more lane excursions, and an increased average driving speed were all reported after day three.  This particular study stopped at day 4, but just to get an idea of what I'm talking about, in day one and two, the average number of car accidents was near zero.  By day three that number jumped to around 2.5 and by day four the average number of accidents was near eight.

Going along with question number three, what about agonist drugs? If perceptions are already altered, what would happen if someone drank some alcohol or smoked marijuana? Would the effects be intensified even if intoxication levels remained low?

Overall I think this would be an interesting topic to delve into.  I'm thankful that I drove home in the middle of the night and nothing happened, but I will surely note the research next time and take a nap before I drive without sleep whether I'm tired or not.
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----------MB_8C9D47BB7F9F380_718_AE_MBLK-M05.sysops.aol.com-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Thu Oct 4 17:17:47 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Megan Larsen) Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 10:17:47 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] Fwd: FW: A Reading Exercise........... In-Reply-To: <739891.28862.qm@web38904.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: Weird! I coult completely read every word...and fast too. Funny how the mind works! >From: Andrea Kalvesmaki >Reply-To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu >To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu >Subject: [Psych3120] Fwd: FW: A Reading Exercise........... >Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 21:50:14 -0700 (PDT) > >Hi all- >funny, now that the exam is done, I had a friend send >me this and thought I would pass it on... it is pretty >much an example of how top-down processing can help >you read... for those that can read it, that is. > > > > > > > > _____ > > > > Subject: Can you read this? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Only great minds can read this > > > > > > > > > > > > This is weird, but interesting! > > > > > > > > > > > > fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too > > > > > > > > Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can. > > > > > > > > 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 dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the > > ltteres in a wrod are, the > > olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat > > ltteer be in the rghit > > pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can > > sitll raed it whotuit a > > pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not > > raed ervey lteter by > > istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh > > and I awlyas tghuhot > > slpeling was ipmorantt! if you can raed tihs forwrad > > it. > > > > ><< Header >> From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Thu Oct 4 19:46:24 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Andrea Kalvesmaki) Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 11:46:24 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Psych3120] Re: Reading exercise In-Reply-To: <200710041836.l94Ia8eW016354@topo.csbs.utah.edu> Message-ID: <41457.69969.qm@web38912.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Yes, it is funny. Glad someone tried it. In my Abnormal Psych class, we discussed learning disabilities today, and included dyslexia. It seems dyslexia is essentially a top-down processing deficiency, as every word, no matter the context, is evaluated bottom-up, and often confused with other components. Only about 3 people in the Ab psy class are taking cognitive psych... I think the topics learned in Cog Psy apply across the board to other modalities within psychology, and it is interesting to apply the theories in multiple areas. --- psych3120-request@lists.csbs.utah.edu wrote: > 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. RE: Fwd: FW: A Reading Exercise........... > (Megan Larsen) > > From: "Megan Larsen" > To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu > Subject: RE: [Psych3120] Fwd: FW: A Reading > Exercise........... > Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 10:17:47 -0600 > > Weird! I coult completely read every word...and fast > too. Funny how the mind > works! > > > >From: Andrea Kalvesmaki > >Reply-To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu > >To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu > >Subject: [Psych3120] Fwd: FW: A Reading > Exercise........... > >Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 21:50:14 -0700 (PDT) > > > >Hi all- > >funny, now that the exam is done, I had a friend > send > >me this and thought I would pass it on... it is > pretty > >much an example of how top-down processing can help > >you read... for those that can read it, that is. > > > > > > > > > > > > > _____ > > > > > > Subject: Can you read this? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Only great minds can read this > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > This is weird, but interesting! > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid > too > > > > > > > > > > > > Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 > can. > > > > > > > > > > > > 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 dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the > > > ltteres in a wrod are, the > > > olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat > > > ltteer be in the rghit > > > pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can > > > sitll raed it whotuit a > > > pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not > > > raed ervey lteter by > > > istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? > yaeh > > > and I awlyas tghuhot > > > slpeling was ipmorantt! if you can raed tihs > forwrad > > > it. > > > > > > > > > ><< Header >> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Psych3120 mailing list > Psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu > http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/listinfo.cgi/psych3120 > > From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Thu Oct 4 19:21:23 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Matt Hansen) Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 11:21:23 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Psych3120] Cones and Rods Message-ID: <819922.84546.qm@web51909.mail.re2.yahoo.com> I am curious as to why I can see colors so well in my peripheral field of vision, or at least I think I can. Everything may not be as clear as with my central view but the colors seem to be easy to differentiate. Ok so I just covered my central field of view and found that it was actually way tough to differentiate color in my peripheral field of vision. Cool stuff. My mind just seems to associate everything as being similar to what is in my central point of view. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Boardwalk for $500? In 2007? Ha! Play Monopoly Here and Now (it's updated for today's economy) at Yahoo! Games. http://get.games.yahoo.com/proddesc?gamekey=monopolyherenow From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Thu Oct 4 22:42:13 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (MR. Robert Lee Lambert) Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 14:42:13 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Psych3120] Drunk Driving and Cell phones In-Reply-To: <819922.84546.qm@web51909.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <892564.5193.qm@web51712.mail.re2.yahoo.com> I would be curious if someone did a experiment that involved getting someone past the .08 blood alcohol level and talk on a cell phone in the simulator! It sounds kind of extreme but at the same time, I bet a fair amount of people who drive while drunk have talked on the phone as well. I mean, when i drink (not drive of course!) i'm not exactly the most logical and practical person on the planet. Or on the other hand, maybe you are able to distribute dual tasks more evenly (but poorly)than you would be sober. Also, I wonder if you were to plot the data using a Performance Operator Characteristic curve what that would tell us about dual attention and drunk driving. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Check out the hottest 2008 models today at Yahoo! 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Boo!=A0Scare away worms, = viruses and so much more! Try Windows Live OneCare! Try now! = --_50aadda9-45c3-4b81-adb7-f53ad01baf1c_-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Fri Oct 5 00:26:12 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Thomas Blakemore) Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 17:26:12 -0600 (GMT-06:00) Subject: [Psych3120] Attention Message-ID: <1258289.1191540372633.JavaMail.root@elwamui-mouette.atl.sa.earthlink.net> We were talking about attention last week and the computer screens that anethesiologists use during surgeries and how the displays held too much information and were too cluttered, requiring the anethesiologist to monitor many different parts of the screen at once. Having the displays so cluttered also slowed down the anethesiologists reaction time if a problem occurred, since they'd have to keep switching their focus from different parts. The other day I went into the bookstore to buy some things and I used my credit card to pay. As usual, the cashier asked for ID, which I showed her. My old driver's license recently expired so I had to get one of the new ones, which is what I showed the cashier. She stared at my license for about 15 seconds before she located the name, and made a comment about how confusing the new licenses are. Afterwards, I looked at my license and realized that it really is very confusing, a surprising discovery considering it's just a driver's license and not some changing, complicated display. But whoever put this new license together kind of dropped the ball on making easy to read. For example, the "Under 21 Until" part has the date in red with a background of smaller copy of my ID photo, making it very hard to read the date. Also, my name is way down in the bottom left corner, with my last name on top and my first and middle name on bottom and smaller than my last name. The people who put this license together ought to have consulted a cognitive psychologist, so as to avoid all the clutter and confusion. It's probably the worst license layout I've ever seen. If you know anyone who has gotten a new license recently, ask to see it and you'll see what I mean. It's kind of interesting to think about how much time my license will waste as people seek out relevant information on it. Oh well. From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Fri Oct 5 03:04:11 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Kandis Beverley) Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 20:04:11 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] After the test Message-ID:
I know that the test is over but does anybody remember what the optic disc is, where it is, and what it does? I thought it was somewhere in the retina but I could not remember. Another question was about a muscle in the eye, the test asked if it moved the eye from side to side or if it keep the eye shape. I thought it was for moving the eye, because in movies when eye ball would pop out of the eye socket, the shape did not change,(as far as I could tell). Then again it was from a movie, so.... who knows. What did you guys put?
-Kandis Beverely
From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Fri Oct 5 16:35:18 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Megan Larsen) Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2007 09:35:18 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] After the test In-Reply-To: Message-ID: I'm not sure about hte muscle one, but the optic disk is the blindsopt I'm pretty sure >From: "Kandis Beverley" >Reply-To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu >To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu >Subject: [Psych3120] After the test >Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 20:04:11 -0600 > >I know that the test is over but does anybody remember what the optic disc >is, where it is, and what it does? I thought it was somewhere in the retina >but I could not remember. Another question was about a muscle in the eye, >the test asked if it moved the eye from side to side or if it keep the eye >shape. I thought it was for moving the eye, because in movies when eye ball >would pop out of the eye socket, the shape did notchange,(as far as I >could tell). Then again it was from a movie, so.... who knows. What did you >guys put? >-Kandis Beverely > >_______________________________________________ >Psych3120 mailing list >Psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu >http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/listinfo.cgi/psych3120 From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Fri Oct 5 16:43:10 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu) Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2007 11:43:10 -0400 Subject: [Psych3120] Heidi Willilams Message-ID: <8C9D57D91189441-720-51ED@webmail-db10.sysops.aol.com> ----------MB_8C9D57D91189441_720_A5E9_webmail-db10.sysops.aol.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I thought that the test was pretty decent.? The only thing that I had a hard time with was some of the wording in the multiple choice questions.? I probably understood the information but the way the question was worded just didn't spark the the connection to the information that I studied.? I found that writing out all of the essay questions before hand saved my life.? It really made studying for the test really easy.? It probably helped the most with understanding all of the individual parts o information and putting them into a sequence of information in my head.? So I could say that something happens and causes something else and then I could relate it to completely different subjects.? So I highly recommend doing it for the next two tests.? The one thing that I could improve is to do the essays as they come up in topic for lecture.? I don't want to write six essays in one day again.? ________________________________________________________________________ Email and AIM finally together. You've gotta check out free AOL Mail! - http://mail.aol.com ----------MB_8C9D57D91189441_720_A5E9_webmail-db10.sysops.aol.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" I thought that the test was pretty decent.  The only thing that I had a hard time with was some of the wording in the multiple choice questions.  I probably understood the information but the way the question was worded just didn't spark the the connection to the information that I studied.  I found that writing out all of the essay questions before hand saved my life.  It really made studying for the test really easy.  It probably helped the most with understanding all of the individual parts o information and putting them into a sequence of information in my head.  So I could say that something happens and causes something else and then I could relate it to completely different subjects.  So I highly recommend doing it for the next two tests.  The one thing that I could improve is to do the essays as they come up in topic for lecture.  I don't want to write six essays in one day again. 
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----------MB_8C9D57D91189441_720_A5E9_webmail-db10.sysops.aol.com-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Fri Oct 5 17:01:36 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu) Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2007 12:01:36 -0400 Subject: [Psych3120] heidi williams Message-ID: <8C9D58024179647-720-5376@webmail-db10.sysops.aol.com> ----------MB_8C9D58024179647_720_A8E9_webmail-db10.sysops.aol.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I found modes, slips, and lapses hard to differentiate between.? I think it is becasue I do all of them all at the same time so to me it's all the same thing.? I was dissappointed to see that the case studies related to these weren't on the test because I wasted my time reading them when I could have been studying notes.? I thought they were depressing and it really hit home how serious these mistakes can be.? It also helped me understand how important it is do design things that humans are going to operate so that it isn't easy to mix up things that could be potentially dangerous.? We have a stove that causes human error all the time.? There are four seperate knobes to turn on the units on our stove.? We alway turn on the wrong knob.??Instead of turning on the front unit I turn on the back one, vice versa.? The bad thing about is that we keep unit covers on the units not being used at the moment.? So we always squortch the unit covers which releases possibly noxious fumes.? I always wondered why this was such a problem.??Well, today my mom pointed out that on the left side of the stove?2 knobs read from left to righ back, front.? On the right side of the stove the knob read:?front, back.? Who ever designed the stove obviously never used one before.? ________________________________________________________________________ Email and AIM finally together. You've gotta check out free AOL Mail! - http://mail.aol.com ----------MB_8C9D58024179647_720_A8E9_webmail-db10.sysops.aol.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii"
I found modes, slips, and lapses hard to differentiate between.  I think it is becasue I do all of them all at the same time so to me it's all the same thing.  I was dissappointed to see that the case studies related to these weren't on the test because I wasted my time reading them when I could have been studying notes.  I thought they were depressing and it really hit home how serious these mistakes can be.  It also helped me understand how important it is do design things that humans are going to operate so that it isn't easy to mix up things that could be potentially dangerous.  We have a stove that causes human error all the time.  There are four seperate knobes to turn on the units on our stove.  We alway turn on the wrong knob.  Instead of turning on the front unit I turn on the back one, vice versa.  The bad thing about is that we keep unit covers on the units not being used at the moment.  So we always squortch the unit covers which releases possibly noxious fumes.  I always wondered why this was such a problem.  Well, today my mom pointed out that on the left side of the stove 2 knobs read from left to righ back, front.  On the right side of the stove the knob read: front, back.  Who ever designed the stove obviously never used one before. 
Email and AIM finally together. You've gotta check out free AOL Mail!
----------MB_8C9D58024179647_720_A8E9_webmail-db10.sysops.aol.com-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Fri Oct 5 19:38:43 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (carly ostler) Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 12:38:43 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] post-test In-Reply-To: <200710051807.l95I75XV000990@topo.csbs.utah.edu> References: <200710051807.l95I75XV000990@topo.csbs.utah.edu> Message-ID: --_80c6c92a-b611-4699-ad81-7ebc21681142_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable This test on wednesday was really overwhelming, but the review really helpe= d. I was at a loss as to what to study until monday. I would also like to = know whether the test is graded on a curve, and also if anyone would like t= o get together for a study review to compare ideas for the next test, becau= se although this message board is helpful, I'm really a lot better with stu= dying in groups. =20 About dislexia and top-down processing, are there different degrees of inab= ility to use top-down processing? I often find myself mixing letters and wo= rds around, but probably not in the same way. Also, where does the inabilit= y come from? is it damage to the temporal lobe?=20 Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 12:07:05 -0600From: psych3120-request@lists.csbs.utah= .eduSubject: Psych3120 digest, Vol 1 #1069 - 9 msgsTo: psych3120@lists.csbs= .utah.eduSend Psych3120 mailing list submissions to psych3120@lists.csbs.ut= ah.edu To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lis= ts.csbs.utah.edu/listinfo.cgi/psych3120or, via email, send a message with s= ubject or body 'help' to psych3120-request@lists.csbs.utah.edu You can reac= h the person managing the list at psych3120-admin@lists.csbs.utah.edu When = replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specificthan "Re: Con= tents of Psych3120 digest..."=20 --Forwarded Message Attachment--Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 11:46:24 -0700From: a= kalvesmaki@yahoo.comTo: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.eduSubject: [Psych3120] R= e: Reading exerciseYes, it is funny. Glad someone tried it. In myAbnormal P= sych class, we discussed learningdisabilities today, and included dyslexia.= It seemsdyslexia is essentially a top-down processingdeficiency, as every = word, no matter the context, isevaluated bottom-up, and often confused with= othercomponents. Only about 3 people in the Ab psy classare taking cogniti= ve psych... I think the topicslearned in Cog Psy apply across the board to = othermodalities within psychology, and it is interesting toapply the theori= es in multiple areas. --- psych3120-request@lists.csbs.utah.edu wrote: > S= end 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 s= ubject or body> 'help' to> psych3120-request@lists.csbs.utah.edu> > You ca= n reach the person managing the list at> psych3120-admin@lists.csbs.utah.e= du> > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it> is more specific>= than "Re: Contents of Psych3120 digest..."> > > Today's Topics:> > 1. R= E: Fwd: FW: A Reading Exercise...........> (Megan Larsen)> > From: "Megan L= arsen" > To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu> Subject: RE:= [Psych3120] Fwd: FW: A Reading> Exercise...........> Date: Thu, 04 Oct 200= 7 10:17:47 -0600> > Weird! I coult completely read every word...and fast> t= oo. Funny how the mind > works!> > > >From: Andrea Kalvesmaki > >Reply-To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu> >To: psych3120@lists.= csbs.utah.edu> >Subject: [Psych3120] Fwd: FW: A Reading> Exercise..........= .> >Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 21:50:14 -0700 (PDT)> >> >Hi all-> >funny, now th= at the exam is done, I had a friend> send> >me this and thought I would pas= s it on... it is> pretty> >much an example of how top-down processing can h= elp> >you read... for those that can read it, that is.> >> >> > >> > >> > >= _____> > >> > > Subject: Can you read this?> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > = >> > >> > > Only great minds can read this> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > > Th= is is weird, but interesting!> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > > fi yuo cna raed= tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid> too> > >> > >> > >> > > Cna yuo raed tihs? = Olny 55 plepoe out of 100> can.> > >> > >> > >> > > i cdnuolt blveiee taht = I cluod aulaclty> uesdnatnrd> > > waht I was rdanieg. The> > > phaonmneal p= weor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to> a> > > rscheearch at Cmabrigde> > > U= inervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the> > > ltteres in a wrod are, = the> > > olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat> > > ltteer be in = the rghit> > > pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can> > > sitll r= aed it whotuit a> > > pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not> > >= raed ervey lteter by> > > istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh?> y= aeh> > > and I awlyas tghuhot> > > slpeling was ipmorantt! if you can raed = tihs> forwrad> > > it.> > >> > >> > > ><< Header >>> > > > > > ____________= ___________________________________> Psych3120 mailing list> Psych3120@list= s.csbs.utah.edu> http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/listinfo.cgi/psych3120> > =20 --Forwarded Message Attachment--Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 11:21:23 -0700From: m= attsweden@yahoo.comTo: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.eduSubject: [Psych3120] Co= nes and RodsI am curious as to why I can see colors so well in myperipheral= field of vision, or at least I think I can. Everything may not be as clear= as with my centralview but the colors seem to be easy to differentiate. Ok= so I just covered my central field of view andfound that it was actually w= ay tough to differentiatecolor in my peripheral field of vision. Cool stuf= f. My mind just seems to associate everything as beingsimilar to what is in= my central point of view. ________________________________________= ____________________________________________Boardwalk for $500? In 2007? Ha= ! Play Monopoly Here and Now (it's updated for today's economy) at Yahoo! G= ames.http://get.games.yahoo.com/proddesc?gamekey=3Dmonopolyherenow =20 --Forwarded Message Attachment--Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 14:42:13 -0700From: s= kateboarding_is_swell@yahoo.comTo: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.eduSubject: [P= sych3120] Drunk Driving and Cell phones I would be curious if someone did= a experiment thatinvolved getting someone past the .08 blood alcohol level= and talk on a cell phone in the simulator! Itsounds kind of extreme but at= the same time, I bet afair amount of people who drive while drunk havetalk= ed on the phone as well. I mean, when i drink (notdrive of course!) i'm not= exactly the most logical andpractical person on the planet. Or on the othe= r hand,maybe you are able to distribute dual tasks moreevenly (but poorly)t= han you would be sober. Also, Iwonder if you were to plot the data using aP= erformance Operator Characteristic curve what thatwould tell us about dual = attention and drunk driving. _______________________________________= _____________________________________________Check out the hottest 2008 mod= els today at Yahoo! Autos.http://autos.yahoo.com/new_cars.html --Forwarded Message Attachment--From: une_fille_03@hotmail.comTo: psych3120= @lists.csbs.utah.eduDate: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 16:02:48 -0700Subject: [Psych3120= ] Test How did everyone feel about the test? I was a little overwhelmed by the det= ails we were required to know. I actually studied A LOT, but still felt a l= ittle uneasy, the essays were the easiest part (since we went over them in = the review and knew how to prepare) but the multiple choice was pretty inte= nse!! I hope everyone did alright! Its graded on a curve, right? Boo! Scare away worms, viruses and so much more! Try Windows Live OneCare! = Try now! --Forwarded Message Attachment--Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 17:26:12 -0600From: t= mblakemoreslc@earthlink.netTo: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.eduSubject: [Psych= 3120] AttentionWe were talking about attention last week and the computer s= creens that anethesiologists use during surgeries and how the displays held= too much information and were too cluttered, requiring the anethesiologist= to monitor many different parts of the screen at once. Having the display= s so cluttered also slowed down the anethesiologists reaction time if a pro= blem occurred, since they'd have to keep switching their focus from differe= nt parts.The other day I went into the bookstore to buy some things and I u= sed my credit card to pay. As usual, the cashier asked for ID, which I sho= wed her. My old driver's license recently expired so I had to get one of t= he new ones, which is what I showed the cashier. She stared at my license = for about 15 seconds before she located the name, and made a comment about = how confusing the new licenses are. Afterwards, I looked at my license and= realized that it really is very confusing, a surprising discovery consider= ing it's just a driver's license and not some changing, complicated display= . But whoever put this new license together kind of dropped the ball on ma= king easy to read. For example, the "Under 21 Until" part has the date in = red with a background of smaller copy of my ID photo, making it very hard t= o read the date. Also, my name is way down in the bottom left corner, with= my last name on top and my first and middle name on bottom and smaller tha= n my last name. The ! people who put this license together ought to have= consulted a cognitive psychologist, so as to avoid all the clutter and con= fusion. It's probably the worst license layout I've ever seen. If you kno= w anyone who has gotten a new license recently, ask to see it and you'll se= e what I mean. It's kind of interesting to think about how much time my li= cense will waste as people seek out relevant information on it. Oh well.=20 --Forwarded Message Attachment--From: kandisbeverley@hotmail.comTo: psych31= 20@lists.csbs.utah.eduDate: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 20:04:11 -0600Subject: [Psych31= 20] After the test I know that the test is over but does anybody remember what the optic disc = is, where it is, and what it does? I thought it was somewhere in the retina= but I could not remember. Another question was about a muscle in the eye, = the test asked if it moved the eye from side to side or if it keep the eye = shape. I thought it was for moving the eye, because in movies when eye ball= would pop out of the eye socket, the shape did not change,(as far as I cou= ld tell). Then again it was from a movie, so.... who knows. What did you gu= ys put? -Kandis Beverely --Forwarded Message Attachment--From: meg_meg84@msn.comTo: psych3120@lists.= csbs.utah.eduSubject: RE: [Psych3120] After the testDate: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 0= 9:35:18 -0600I'm not sure about hte muscle one, but the optic disk is the b= lindsopt I'm pretty sure >From: "Kandis Beverley" >Reply-To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu>To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.= edu>Subject: [Psych3120] After the test>Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 20:04:11 -06= 00>>I know that the test is over but does anybody remember what the optic d= isc >is, where it is, and what it does? I thought it was somewhere in the r= etina >but I could not remember. Another question was about a muscle in the= eye, >the test asked if it moved the eye from side to side or if it keep t= he eye >shape. I thought it was for moving the eye, because in movies when = eye ball >would pop out of the eye socket, the shape did not change,(as far= as I >could tell). Then again it was from a movie, so.... who knows. What = did you >guys put?>-Kandis Beverely>>______________________________________= _________>Psych3120 mailing list>Psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu>http://lists= .csbs.utah.edu/listinfo.cgi/psych3120 =20 --Forwarded Message Attachment--To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.eduDate: Fri,= 5 Oct 2007 11:43:10 -0400From: frogedamillion@aol.comSubject: [Psych3120] = Heidi WillilamsI thought that the test was pretty decent. The only thing t= hat I had a hard time with was some of the wording in the multiple choice q= uestions. I probably understood the information but the way the question w= as worded just didn't spark the the connection to the information that I st= udied. I found that writing out all of the essay questions before hand sav= ed my life. It really made studying for the test really easy. It probably= helped the most with understanding all of the individual parts o informati= on and putting them into a sequence of information in my head. So I could = say that something happens and causes something else and then I could relat= e it to completely different subjects. So I highly recommend doing it for = the next two tests. The one thing that I could improve is to do the essays= as they come up in topic for lecture. I don't want to write six essays in= one day again.&n!bsp;=20 Email and AIM finally together. You've gotta check out free AOL Mail! --Forwarded Message Attachment--To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.eduDate: Fri,= 5 Oct 2007 12:01:36 -0400From: frogedamillion@aol.comSubject: [Psych3120] = heidi williams I found modes, slips, and lapses hard to differentiate between. I think it= is becasue I do all of them all at the same time so to me it's all the sam= e thing. I was dissappointed to see that the case studies related to these= weren't on the test because I wasted my time reading them when I could hav= e been studying notes. I thought they were depressing and it really hit ho= me how serious these mistakes can be. It also helped me understand how imp= ortant it is do design things that humans are going to operate so that it i= sn't easy to mix up things that could be potentially dangerous. We have a = stove that causes human error all the time. There are four seperate knobes= to turn on the units on our stove. We alway turn on the wrong knob. Inst= ead of turning on the front unit I turn on the back one, vice versa. The b= ad thing about is that we keep unit covers on the units not being used at t= he moment. !So we always squortch the unit covers which releases possibly = noxious fumes. I always wondered why this was such a problem. Well, today= my mom pointed out that on the left side of the stove 2 knobs read from le= ft to righ back, front. On the right side of the stove the knob read: fron= t, back. Who ever designed the stove obviously never used one before. =20 Email and AIM finally together. You've gotta check out free AOL Mail! _________________________________________________________________ Boo!=A0Scare away worms, viruses and so much more! Try Windows Live OneCare= ! http://onecare.live.com/standard/en-us/purchase/trial.aspx?s_cid=3Dwl_hotma= ilnews= --_80c6c92a-b611-4699-ad81-7ebc21681142_ Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable This test on wednesday was really overwhelming, but the review really helpe= d. I was at a loss as to what to study until monday.  I would also lik= e to know whether the test is graded on a curve, and also if anyone would l= ike to get together for a study review to compare ideas for the next t= est, because although this message board is helpful, I'm really a lot bette= r with studying in groups. 
About dislexia and top-down processing, are there different degrees of inab= ility to use top-down processing? I often find myself mixing letters and wo= rds around, but probably not in the same way. Also, where does the inabilit= y come from? is it damage to the temporal lobe? 


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> Weird! I coult completely read every word..=
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> >Hi all-
> >funny, now that the exam is do=
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> send
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> > >
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> > >
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> > >
> > >> > > i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty
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Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 11:21= :23 -0700
From: mattsweden@yahoo.com
To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.ed= u
Subject: [Psych3120] Cones and Rods

I am curious as to why=
 I can see colors so well in my
peripheral field of vision, or at least =
I think I can.
 Everything may not be as clear as with my central
vie=
w but the colors seem to be easy to differentiate. 
Ok so I just covered=
 my central field of view and
found that it was actually way tough to di=
fferentiate
color in my peripheral field of vision.  Cool stuff. 
My =
mind just seems to associate everything as being
similar to what is in m=
y central point of view.
 
 
       
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From: skateboarding_is_swell@yahoo.com
To: psych3120@lists.= csbs.utah.edu
Subject: [Psych3120] Drunk Driving and Cell phones

= 
 
 
 I would be curious if someone did a experiment that
invo=
lved getting someone past the .08 blood alcohol 
level and talk on a cel=
l phone in the simulator! It
sounds kind of extreme but at the same time=
, I bet a
fair amount of people who drive while drunk have
talked on =
the phone as well. I mean, when i drink (not
drive of course!) i'm not e=
xactly the most logical and
practical person on the planet. Or on the ot=
her hand,
maybe you are able to distribute dual tasks more
evenly (bu=
t poorly)than you would be sober. Also, I
wonder if you were to plot the=
 data using a
Performance Operator Characteristic curve what that
wou=
ld tell us about dual attention and drunk driving.
 
 
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Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 16:02:48 = -0700
Subject: [Psych3120] Test









How did everyone feel about the test? I was a little overw=
helmed by the details we were required to know. I actually studied A LOT, b=
ut still felt a little uneasy, the essays were the easiest part (since we w=
ent over them in the review and knew how to prepare) but the multiple choic=
e was pretty intense!! I hope everyone did alright! Its graded on a curve, =
right?

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Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 17:26= :12 -0600
From: tmblakemoreslc@earthlink.net
To: psych3120@lists.csbs= .utah.edu
Subject: [Psych3120] Attention

We were talking abo=
ut attention last week and the computer screens that anethesiologists use d=
uring surgeries and how the displays held too much information and were too=
 cluttered, requiring the anethesiologist to monitor many different parts o=
f the screen at once.  Having the displays so cluttered also slowed down th=
e anethesiologists reaction time if a problem occurred, since they'd have t=
o keep switching their focus from different parts.
The other day I went =
into the bookstore to buy some things and I used my credit card to pay.  As=
 usual, the cashier asked for ID, which I showed her.  My old driver's lice=
nse recently expired so I had to get one of the new ones, which is what I s=
howed the cashier.  She stared at my license for about 15 seconds before sh=
e located the name, and made a comment about how confusing the new licenses=
 are.  Afterwards, I looked at my license and realized that it really is ve=
ry confusing, a surprising discovery considering it's just a driver's licen=
se and not some changing, complicated display.  But whoever put this new li=
cense together kind of dropped the ball on making easy to read.  For exampl=
e, the "Under 21 Until" part has the date in red with a background of small=
er copy of my ID photo, making it very hard to read the date.  Also, my nam=
e is way down in the bottom left corner, with my last name on top and my fi=
rst and middle name on bottom and smaller than my last name.    The !
 p=
eople who put this license together ought to have consulted a cognitive psy=
chologist, so as to avoid all the clutter and confusion.  It's probably the=
 worst license layout I've ever seen.  If you know anyone who has gotten a =
new license recently, ask to see it and you'll see what I mean.  It's kind =
of interesting to think about how much time my license will waste as people=
 seek out relevant information on it.  Oh well.
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Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 20:04:1= 1 -0600
Subject: [Psych3120] After the test

I know that the test is over but does anybody remember wha= t the optic disc is, where it is, and what it does? I thought it was somewh= ere in the retina but I could not remember. Another question was about a mu= scle in the eye, the test asked if it moved the eye from side to side or if= it keep the eye shape. I thought it was for moving the eye, because in mov= ies when eye ball would pop out of the eye socket, the shape did not c= hange,(as far as I could tell). Then again it was from a movie, so.... who = knows. What did you guys put?

-Kandis Beverely


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Subject: RE: [Psych3120] After the tes= t
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 09:35:18 -0600

I'm not sure about ht=
e muscle one, but the optic disk is the blindsopt I'm 
pretty sure
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>From: "Kandis Beverley" <kandisbeverley@hotmail.com>
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>Subject: [Psych3120] After the test
>Date: Thu, 04 Oc=
t 2007 20:04:11 -0600
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>I know that the test is over but does =
anybody remember what the optic disc 
>is, where it is, and what it d=
oes? I thought it was somewhere in the retina 
>but I could not remem=
ber. Another question was about a muscle in the eye, 
>the test asked=
 if it moved the eye from side to side or if it keep the eye 
>shape.=
 I thought it was for moving the eye, because in movies when eye ball 
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gt;would pop out of the eye socket, the shape did not change,(as far a=
s I 
>could tell). Then again it was from a movie, so.... who knows. =
What did you 
>guys put?
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Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 11:43:10 -0400
From: frogedamillion@aol.= com
Subject: [Psych3120] Heidi Willilams

I thought that the test was pretty decent.  The on= ly thing that I had a hard time with was some of the wording in the multipl= e choice questions.  I probably understood the information but the way= the question was worded just didn't spark the the connection to the inform= ation that I studied.  I found that writing out all of the essay quest= ions before hand saved my life.  It really made studying for the test = really easy.  It probably helped the most with understanding all of th= e individual parts o information and putting them into a sequence of inform= ation in my head.  So I could say that something happens and causes so= mething else and then I could relate it to completely different subjects.&n= bsp; So I highly recommend doing it for the next two tests.  The one t= hing that I could improve is to do the essays as they come up in topic for = lecture.  I don't want to write six essays in one day again.&n!bsp;


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Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 12:01:36 -0400
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Subject: [Psych3120] heidi williams


I found modes, slips, and lapses hard to differenti= ate between.  I think it is becasue I do all of them all at the same t= ime so to me it's all the same thing.  I was dissappointed to see that= the case studies related to these weren't on the test because I wasted my = time reading them when I could have been studying notes.  I thought th= ey were depressing and it really hit home how serious these mistakes can be= .  It also helped me understand how important it is do design things t= hat humans are going to operate so that it isn't easy to mix up things that= could be potentially dangerous.  We have a stove that causes human er= ror all the time.  There are four seperate knobes to turn on the units= on our stove.  We alway turn on the wrong knob.  Instead of= turning on the front unit I turn on the back one, vice versa.  The ba= d thing about is that we keep unit covers on the units not being used at th= e moment.  !
So we always squortch the unit covers which releases p= ossibly noxious fumes.  I always wondered why this was such a problem.=   Well, today my mom pointed out that on the left side of the sto= ve 2 knobs read from left to righ back, front.  On the right side= of the stove the knob read: front, back.  Who ever designed the = stove obviously never used one before. 



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Boo!=A0Scare away worms, viruses and so = much more! Try Windows Live OneCare! Try= now! = --_80c6c92a-b611-4699-ad81-7ebc21681142_-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Fri Oct 5 23:46:55 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (horii chieko) Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2007 07:46:55 +0900 Subject: FW: [Psych3120] Fwd: FW: A Reading Exercise........... In-Reply-To: References: <739891.28862.qm@web38904.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: --_d633f217-b159-456b-86f5-af0a70cedae8_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-2022-jp" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I also tried this and found my self reading with any difficulties. It was even fun to read. Since I wanted to understand difference between this top down and bottom up process more clearly, I've been searching some good examples. One of the examples for both two processes is searching something. Say you have just a piece of object and are asked to search something, you would get lost. Perceiving an object from such piece of infomation is bottom up. Instead, if you have information about what you search such as a pink pearl earing with a fine chain, it would be your information before searching even though you haven't seen such earing before, you could image it so that it helps you to perceive next step easier than bottom up. This is an top down process. This one was helpful for me so I hope it would be so for somebody like me. > From: mTyeg_meg84@msn.com> To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu> Subject: RE: [Psych3120] Fwd: FW: A Reading Exercise...........> Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 10:17:47 -0600> > Weird! I coult completely read every word...and fast too. Funny how the mind > works!> > > >From: Andrea Kalvesmaki > >Reply-To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu> >To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu> >Subject: [Psych3120] Fwd: FW: A Reading Exercise...........> >Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 21:50:14 -0700 (PDT)> >> >Hi all-> >funny, now that the exam is done, I had a friend send> >me this and thought I would pass it on... it is pretty> >much an example of how top-down processing can help> >you read... for those that can read it, that is.> >> >> > >> > >> > > _____> > >> > > Subject: Can you read this?> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > > Only great minds can read this> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > > This is weird, but interesting!> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > > fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too> > >> > >> > >> > > Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can.> > >> > >> > >> > > 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 dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the> > > ltteres in a wrod are, the> > > olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat> > > ltteer be in the rghit> > > pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can> > > sitll raed it whotuit a> > > pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not> > > raed ervey lteter by> > > istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh> > > and I awlyas tghuhot> > > slpeling was ipmorantt! if you can raed tihs forwrad> > > it.> > >> > >> > > ><< Header >>> > > _______________________________________________> Psych3120 mailing list> Psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu> http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/listinfo.cgi/psych3120 _________________________________________________________________ MSN$B%_%e!<%8%C%/$H(BEMI Artists$B$,6&F13+:E$9$k%*!<%G%#%7%g%s(B SCHOOL OF SCHOOL http://music.jp.msn.com/ --_d633f217-b159-456b-86f5-af0a70cedae8_ Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-2022-jp" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I also tried this and found my self reading with any difficulties. It was even fun to read.
Since I wanted to understand difference between this top down and bottom up process more clearly,
I've been searching some good examples. One of the examples for both two processes is searching something.
Say you have just a piece of object and are asked to search something, you would get lost. Perceiving an object from such piece of infomation is bottom up.
Instead, if you have information about what you search such as a pink pearl earing with a fine chain,
it would be your information before searching even though you haven't seen such earing before, you could image it
so that it helps you to perceive next step easier than bottom up. This is an top down process.
This one was helpful for me so I hope it would be so for somebody like me.
 
 

> From: mTyeg_meg84@msn.com
> To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu
> Subject: RE: [Psych3120] Fwd: FW: A Reading Exercise...........
> Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 10:17:47 -0600
>
> Weird! I coult completely read every word...and fast too. Funny how the mind
> works!
>
>
> >From: Andrea Kalvesmaki <akalvesmaki@yahoo.com>
> >Reply-To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu
> >To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu
> >Subject: [Psych3120] Fwd: FW: A Reading Exercise...........
> >Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 21:50:14 -0700 (PDT)
> >
> >Hi all-
> >funny, now that the exam is done, I had a friend send
> >me this and thought I would pass it on... it is pretty
> >much an example of how top-down processing can help
> >you read... for those that can read it, that is.
> >
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > _____
> > >
> > > Subject: Can you read this?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Only great minds can read this
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > This is weird, but interesting!
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > 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 dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the
> > &g t; ltteres in a wrod are, the
> > > olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat
> > > ltteer be in the rghit
> > > pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can
> > > sitll raed it whotuit a
> > > pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not
> > > raed ervey lteter by
> > > istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh
> > > and I awlyas tghuhot
> > > slpeling was ipmorantt! if you can raed tihs forwrad
> > > it.
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     When I read "Set Phasers on Stun" I found it interesting because my wife is currently attending Weber getting her bachelors degree in Radiation Therapy. This is the same job as the Mary Beth character has in the written account. As part of here training she spends 24 hours a week working as an intern at a cancer clinic. So I asked her what she thought of this account.
     Her first comment was "that's a lot of radiation!" Her next comment was that now they have to have two video monitoring systems. One that gives a view of the entire patient and one that gives a view of the treatment area. They also have to have a two-way audio monitoring system. She believes that this is required by law.
     My wife gave me some other interesting tidbits such as the treatment room is called the vault, due to its 3 foot thick concrete walls, ceiling and 1 foot thick steel door that is so heavy it needs a motor to open and close it. The radiation technicians usually work in teems of two or three so that they can double-check each other. And finally the new machines have safety features that shouldn't allow this type of accident, also the area is littered with emergency stop switches just in case. 
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----------MB_8C9D5BB0B0A9DDE_360_DC2C_Webmail-mg12.sysops.aol.com-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Sat Oct 6 04:13:09 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Sofia Rosalinda) Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 21:13:09 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] Mandatory after-test question Message-ID: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0012_01C80794.881DAEA0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable So was the test everything you guys expected it to be and a bag of chips? ------=_NextPart_000_0012_01C80794.881DAEA0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
So was the test everything you guys expected it to be and a bag of=20 chips?
------=_NextPart_000_0012_01C80794.881DAEA0-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Sat Oct 6 14:53:55 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Dan Lauritzen) Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2007 07:53:55 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] Attention and Focus Message-ID: ------=_Part_39187_30880325.1191678835095 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline In my Health Psych class we have recently been talking about the changes that occur during stressful situations. like the SAM and HPA activation. During these your body, puts aside what is extranious and allows you to focus on what is important. As I was driving home from Provo last night in torrential rains and the usual mess of bad drivers, I was stressed and very alert. I realized when I came home how much more aware of my surroundings I was during that drive than usual. For example: My hearing was focused for sound up ahead and the sound of standing water in the road (This I would usually hear before I felt the drag effect), Certain body discomforts were mostly ignored during the more difficult sections, I was more visually focused on what was going on I watched everyone around me and the road with precision and continuous watchfulness. I am certain there were more changes that took place, but I didn't recognize them. I thought the whole experience was amazing to see how much our attention can be reorganized to suite the needs of the situation. My body knew what it needed to do in order to survive. There was almost no attention sharing, everything was focused on the task at hand. -- Dan Lauritzen ------=_Part_39187_30880325.1191678835095 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline
In my Health Psych class we have recently been talking about the changes that occur during stressful situations.  like the SAM and HPA activation.  During these your body, puts aside what is extranious and allows you to focus on what is important.  As I was driving home from Provo last night in torrential rains and the usual mess of bad drivers, I was stressed and very alert.  I realized when I came home how much more aware of my surroundings I was during that drive than usual.  For example: My hearing was focused for sound up ahead and the sound of standing water in the road (This I would usually hear before I felt the drag effect), Certain body discomforts were mostly ignored during the more difficult sections, I was more visually focused on what was going on I watched everyone around me and the road with precision and continuous watchfulness.  I am certain there were more changes that took place, but I didn't recognize them. 
   I thought the whole experience was amazing to see how much our attention can be reorganized to suite the needs of the situation.  My body knew what it needed to do in order to survive.  There was almost no attention sharing, everything was focused on the task at hand. 

--
Dan Lauritzen
 
------=_Part_39187_30880325.1191678835095-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Sat Oct 6 19:26:17 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Melissa Davenport) Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2007 12:26:17 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] Test Message-ID: --_db8378c4-70c4-4369-9cea-9df0a309f733_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I think that the study session really helped overview the things that would= be on the test. I am really anxious to see how I did on the test. I felt t= hat there were a few tricky multiple questions, but I really liked how the = essays were designed for us to study. I felt like if we had the basic conce= pts down for the essays than they were pretty easy to write about. I still= find it so interesting how much is going on when we precieve and make mean= ing to things in our environment and what is all going on in our eyes and o= ur brain for all of this to happen so quickly. I have been thinking about t= his alot and how EVERYTHING that i see each day each takes this process. I = find it so fascinating that to me, i look at it and it seems so simple, but= the complexity of how color, movement and everything is working is so deta= iled! I think it is so important to be knowledgeable of this stuff so we don't ta= ke it for granted and we understand how much is working in our eyes just to= see a small object of color! Have a great fall break everyone! Melissa davenport _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live Hotmail and Microsoft Office Outlook =96 together at last. =A0= Get it now. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HA102225181033.aspx?pid=3DCL10062= 6971033= --_db8378c4-70c4-4369-9cea-9df0a309f733_ Content-Type: text/html; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I think that the study session really helped overview the things that would= be on the test. I am really anxious to see how I did on the test. I felt t= hat there were a few tricky multiple questions, but I really liked how the = essays were designed for us to study. I felt like if we had the basic conce= pts down for the essays than they were pretty easy to write about.  I = still find it so interesting how much is going on when we precieve and make= meaning to things in our environment and what is all going on in our eyes = and our brain for all of this to happen so quickly. I have been thinking ab= out this alot and how EVERYTHING that i see each day each takes this proces= s. I find it so fascinating that to me, i look at it and it seems so simple= , but the complexity of how color, movement and everything is working is so= detailed!
I think it is so important to be knowledgeable of this stuff so we don't ta= ke it for granted and we understand how much is working in our eyes just to= see a small object of color!
Have a great fall break everyone!
Melissa davenport

Windows Live Hotmail and Microsoft Office = Outlook =96 together at last. Get it no= w! = --_db8378c4-70c4-4369-9cea-9df0a309f733_-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Sat Oct 6 20:43:29 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Melissa Priest) Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2007 19:43:29 +0000 Subject: [Psych3120] Blindness in One Eye - Melissa Priest Message-ID: The question asking where we might expect to find damage if someone is completely blind in one eye caught me by surprise. Given our choices, my best guess was the optic nerve. Later I thought the correct answer might be the occipital lobe. If the person was completely unable to see out of one of their eyes, the damage would have to have occurred before either visual pathway reached the temporal or parietal lobe. V1 is located in the occipital lobe and is were general visual information is processed. A lot of visual information has been processed prior to reaching V1. I believe this information is carried from the ganglion cells in the retina to V1 via action potentials along the membrane of the optic nerve. The optic nerve travels to midbrain regions prior to reaching the occipital lobe V1 region. The question becomes where to we receive the first signs of visual perception? "Lower order" parts of our vision can be working, but unless they become something we can visually perceive, we do not have any signs of "seeing". If there is damage to the optic nerve lower order visual information can not reach higher order processing regions and so we woudl not perceive "seeing". I don't believe the fact that the blindness is in one eye vs. two eyes makes any difference. Any thoughts? From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Sat Oct 6 21:56:18 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (JAMES C HINCKLE) Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2007 14:56:18 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] Julie Hinckle: Optic Nerve Message-ID: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0005_01C80829.0CF65250 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Kandis asked about a question that was on the test regarding the optic = disc. I remember some information from our lecture notes, but I also = did some extra research and here is what I found. The optic disc is the = area in the back of the eye where the optic nerve connects to the = retina. It is also called the "blind spot". This is because there are = no photoreceptors (rods and cones) located in this specific area. We = don't notice the blind spot because our brain fills in the blanks for = us. The right eye fills in for the left eye. This is directly related = to retinal disparity, where you get a different image from the left eye = and the right eye because our eyes are located in different places. It = is also related to binocular disparity, where we get two different = images from the left and right eye, but combine them and we get a three = dimensional image, thus creating the sense of depth. ------=_NextPart_000_0005_01C80829.0CF65250 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Kandis asked about a question that was on the test regarding the = optic=20 disc.  I remember some information from our lecture notes, but I = also did=20 some extra research and here is what I found.  The optic = disc is=20 the area in the back of the eye where the optic nerve connects to the=20 retina.  It is also called the "blind spot".  This is = because=20 there are no photoreceptors (rods and cones) located in this specific=20 area.  We don't notice the blind spot because our brain fills in = the blanks=20 for us.  The right eye fills in for the left eye. This is = directly related to retinal disparity, where you get a different image = from the=20 left eye and the right eye because our eyes are located in different=20 places.  It is also related to binocular disparity, where we get = two=20 different images from the left and right eye, but combine them and we = get a=20 three dimensional image, thus creating the sense of depth. =20    
------=_NextPart_000_0005_01C80829.0CF65250-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Mon Oct 8 02:25:33 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (erica smith) Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2007 19:25:33 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] (no subject) Message-ID: --_09d73bb9-60cb-4655-8af7-727c36c3f713_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable So, I'm not sure if I remember this correctly, but if a person had only one= eye they would see things in only 2-dimension? So if i cover one eye am I = actually seeing in 2-D but my mind is correcting it like an illusion? Does = anyone have thoughts or knowledge about this? maybe I'm just remembering wr= ong. erica smith _________________________________________________________________ Climb to the top of the charts!=A0 Play Star Shuffle:=A0 the word scramble = challenge with star power. http://club.live.com/star_shuffle.aspx?icid=3Dstarshuffle_wlmailtextlink_oc= t= --_09d73bb9-60cb-4655-8af7-727c36c3f713_ Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable So, I'm not sure if I remember this correctly, but if a person had only one= eye they would see things in only 2-dimension? So if i cover one eye am I = actually seeing in 2-D but my mind is correcting it like an illusion? Does = anyone have thoughts or knowledge about this? maybe I'm just remembering wr= ong.

erica smith

Climb to the top of the charts!=A0 P= lay Star Shuffle:=A0 the word scramble challenge with star power. Play Now! = --_09d73bb9-60cb-4655-8af7-727c36c3f713_-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Mon Oct 8 02:27:01 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (erica smith) Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2007 19:27:01 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] (no subject) Message-ID: --_e7452bfa-45f1-43cb-8e74-55c3d6e97a35_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable So, I'm not sure if I remember this correctly, but if a person had only one= eye they would see things in only 2-dimension? So if i cover one eye am I = actually seeing in 2-D but my mind is correcting it like an illusion? Does = anyone have thoughts or knowledge about this? maybe I'm just remembering wr= ong. erica smith _________________________________________________________________ Climb to the top of the charts!=A0 Play Star Shuffle:=A0 the word scramble = challenge with star power. http://club.live.com/star_shuffle.aspx?icid=3Dstarshuffle_wlmailtextlink_oc= t= --_e7452bfa-45f1-43cb-8e74-55c3d6e97a35_ Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable So, I'm not sure if I remember this correctly, but if a person had only one= eye they would see things in only 2-dimension? So if i cover one eye am I = actually seeing in 2-D but my mind is correcting it like an illusion? Does = anyone have thoughts or knowledge about this? maybe I'm just remembering wr= ong.

erica smith

Climb to the top of the charts!=A0 P= lay Star Shuffle:=A0 the word scramble challenge with star power. Play Now! = --_e7452bfa-45f1-43cb-8e74-55c3d6e97a35_-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Mon Oct 8 07:44:26 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Spencer Weston) Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 00:44:26 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] new monitors References: <200710021804.l92I3Y6O006204@topo.csbs.utah.edu> Message-ID: <51A7FD635262AB41A83F05F6B2AEA7B511E2B3@LP-EXCHVS03.CO.IHC.COM> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C80976.B923AA68 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable The facility I work at recently purchased new monitors for Cardiac = output and SvO2, etc. I must say that the difference in usability = between the new and old were very impressive. It was almost as if the = company had read my mind and made the appropriate changes to reduce = error and improve performance. Not only has the monitor been changed to = mirror other monitors used within the facility, but the features are = more accessible and the flow of sub-menus makes much more sense. The = only problem, however, is that in an effort to make the monitor usable = in several different languages, symbols have been used for the general = push buttons rather than words like on the old monitor. This has led to = early mistakes in interpreting what the symbols mean. After = experimenting, it was discovered that the best solution was to make = see-through labels to put over the buttons that contained the familiar = words. Although the new machine has dramatically reduced slips and = lapses, the problem with mode errors was immense until labels were = placed over the buttons. 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I took off the 3D glasses to make sure/ review what we learned. Then I realized that the 3D films are changed by this 5/ 10 years. because the images moves toward to us and go forward too. Is that still the one we can explain what we learned in the class? and for the exam, I think the revies session really helped, too. However, I also think some multiple questions were unclear to get what the teacher wants to ask. I hope those questions will be more cleared for the next exam. _________________________________________________________________ $B!Z(BMSN$B%S%G%*![D65.=E!*6C$-$NBgJ*BPCL$,eN6$,OCBj$N$"$N?M$KGw$k(B http://video.msn.co.jp/rvr/default.htm --_37d3049e-603c-4dbe-9a84-45f00d6771b8_ Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-2022-jp" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I had watched 3D film in this break. I took off the 3D glasses to make sure/ review what we learned. Then I realized that the 3D films are changed by this 5/ 10 years.  because the images moves toward to us and go forward too. Is that still the one we can explain what we learned in the class?
 
and for the exam, I think the revies session really helped, too.  However, I also think some multiple questions were unclear to get what the teacher wants to ask.  I hope those questions will be more cleared for the next exam.

$B!Z(BMSN$B%S%G%*![D65.=E!*6C$-$NBgJ*BPCL$,eN6$,OCBj$N$"$N?M$KGw$k(B http://video.msn.co.jp/rvr/default.htm --_37d3049e-603c-4dbe-9a84-45f00d6771b8_-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Mon Oct 8 17:15:06 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Alyssa Messina) Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 10:15:06 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] (no subject) Message-ID: --_dc5815a1-db24-495a-96f5-28f4a4a436c2_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Yeah, I thought those human error stories would be on the test too but I fo= und them to be worth reading anyway. Stories like that make me wonder whet= her the possibility for human error is too high to be relied on for the ope= ration of potentially dangerous machines or technology. Dr. Strayer mentio= ned in class our difficulty in keeping up with the rate at which technology= is being developed, and maybe the only solution would be to separate human= interaction from these processes. In some cases, though, maybe human inte= lligence would be required to solve problems or malfunctions that a compute= r wouldn't be able to do. Or maybe it's really just more a problem with th= e design of machinery that have flaws in their operational instructions tha= t have yet to be worked out. Human engineering really is quite interesting,= from an ecological perspective it would appear as though people aren't abl= e to adapt fast enough to these technological advances that are becoming a = more and more integral part of our environments. I would definitely be int= erested in pursuing this kind of research, it seems like this will only bec= ome more of a problem in the future. _________________________________________________________________ Help yourself to FREE treats served up daily at the Messenger Caf=E9. Stop = by today. http://www.cafemessenger.com/info/info_sweetstuff2.html?ocid=3DTXT_TAGLM_Oc= tWLtagline= --_dc5815a1-db24-495a-96f5-28f4a4a436c2_ Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Yeah, I thought those human error stories would be on the test too but I fo= und them to be worth reading anyway.  Stories like that make me wonder= whether the possibility for human error is too high to be relied on for th= e operation of potentially dangerous machines or technology.  Dr. Stra= yer mentioned in class our difficulty in keeping up with the rate at which = technology is being developed, and maybe the only solution would be to= separate human interaction from these processes.  In some cases,= though, maybe human intelligence would be required to solve problems or ma= lfunctions that a computer wouldn't be able to do.  Or maybe it's real= ly just more a problem with the design of machinery that have flaws in thei= r operational instructions that have yet to be worked out. Human engin= eering really is quite interesting, from an ecological perspective it would= appear as though people aren't able to adapt fast enough to thes= e technological advances that are becoming a more and more integral part of= our environments.  I would definitely be interested in pursuing this = kind of research, it seems like this will only become more of a problem in = the future.
Help yourself to FREE treats served up daily at the = Messenger Caf=E9. Stop by today!= = --_dc5815a1-db24-495a-96f5-28f4a4a436c2_-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Mon Oct 8 21:36:32 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (JAMES C HINCKLE) Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 14:36:32 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] Julie Hinckle: Optic Disc Message-ID: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_000E_01C809B8.9F06BAF0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Kandis asked about a question that was on the test regarding the optic = disc. I remember some information from our lecture notes, but I also = did some extra research and here is what I found. The optic disc is the = area in the back of the eye where the optic nerve connects to the = retina. It is also called the "blind spot". This is because there are = no photoreceptors (rods and cones) located in this specific area. We = don't notice the blind spot because our brain fills in the blanks for = us. The right eye fills in for the left eye. This is directly related = to retinal disparity, where you get a different image from the left eye = and the right eye because our eyes are located in slightly different = places. It is also related to binocular disparity, where we get two = slightly different images, one from the left and one from the right eye, = but combine them and we get a three dimensional image, thus creating the = sense of depth. ------=_NextPart_000_000E_01C809B8.9F06BAF0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Kandis asked about a question that was on the test regarding the = optic=20 disc.  I remember some information from our lecture notes, but I = also did=20 some extra research and here is what I found.  The optic disc is = the area=20 in the back of the eye where the optic nerve connects to the = retina.  It is=20 also called the "blind spot".  This is because there are no = photoreceptors=20 (rods and cones) located in this specific area.  We don't notice = the blind=20 spot because our brain fills in the blanks for us.  The right eye = fills in=20 for the left eye.  This is directly related to retinal disparity, = where you=20 get a different image from the left eye and the right eye because our = eyes are=20 located in slightly different places.  It is also related to = binocular=20 disparity, where we get two slightly different images, one from the left = and one=20 from the right eye, but combine them and we get a three dimensional = image, thus=20 creating the sense of depth.
------=_NextPart_000_000E_01C809B8.9F06BAF0-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Fri Oct 12 06:10:56 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Megan Gertsch) Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 22:10:56 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Psych3120] Seeing in 3-D Message-ID: <969626.39951.qm@web56104.mail.re3.yahoo.com> --0-2038357018-1192165856=:39951 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable This is in response to Erica's post and it is sort of a condensed version o= f the answer that I prepared for question #3 on the study guide. Anyway, in= the Matlin and Foley chapter on depth perception they divided the depth cu= es into monocular and binocular cues. Most of them were monocular, such as = interposition, size, atmospheric perspective and a few others. They also sa= id that the motion cues are monocular cues. If I remember correctly, the on= ly binocular cues they mentioned were convergence and binocular disparity a= nd they said that these mainly contribute to depth perception of nearby obj= ects. So, I would think that if you covered one eye and looked out a ways y= ou'd still see in 3-D because of things like interposition, etc. I'm not su= re how complete this is but it's the gist of what I got from the chapter. = =0A =0AMegan Gertsch=0A=0A=0A ________________________________________= ____________________________________________=0ACheck out the hottest 2008 m= odels today at Yahoo! Autos.=0Ahttp://autos.yahoo.com/new_cars.html --0-2038357018-1192165856=:39951 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
This is in response to Erica's post and it is sort of = a condensed version of the answer that I prepared for question #3 on the st= udy guide. Anyway, in the Matlin and Foley chapter on depth perception they= divided the depth cues into monocular and binocular cues. Most of them wer= e monocular, such as interposition, size, atmospheric perspective and = a few others. They also said that the motion cues are monocular cues. If I = remember correctly, the only binocular cues they mentioned were convergence= and binocular disparity and they said that these mainly contribute to=  depth perception of nearby objects. So, I would think that if you cov= ered one eye and looked out a ways you'd still see in 3-D because of things= like interposition, etc. I'm not sure how complete this is but it's the gist of what I got from the chapter.
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Play Monopoly Here an= d Now (it's updated for today's economy) at Yahoo! Games. --0-2038357018-1192165856=:39951-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Fri Oct 12 17:44:49 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Jennifer Smith) Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 09:44:49 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Psych3120] Iconic Memory Message-ID: <517733.65103.qm@web50810.mail.re2.yahoo.com> --0-199743502-1192207489=:65103 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I was reading chapter five for next week's lecture and found iconic memory to be very interesting. Most people have noticed that if they stare at something for 30 seconds or more and then look at something blank (a wall or sheet of paper), they see an afterimage of what they stared at. Is that a demonstration of iconic memory? Jennifer K. Smith --------------------------------- Shape Yahoo! in your own image. Join our Network Research Panel today! --0-199743502-1192207489=:65103 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
I was reading chapter five for next week's lecture and found iconic memory to be very interesting. Most people have noticed that if they stare at something for 30 seconds
or more and then look at something blank (a wall or sheet of paper), they see an
afterimage of what they stared at. Is that a demonstration of iconic memory?


Jennifer K. Smith

Shape Yahoo! in your own image. Join our Network Research Panel today! --0-199743502-1192207489=:65103-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Sat Oct 13 17:32:28 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Natalie Peatmoss) Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 09:32:28 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Psych3120] Natalie Peatross Message-ID: <689284.89531.qm@web51502.mail.re2.yahoo.com> --0-803148270-1192293148=:89531 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I am taking a class w Dr. Drews. Dr Strayer has mentioned him before..he teaches the Human Error and Engineering Psych and the Industrial Psych...Anyway, in his Engineering Psych class we talk about different theories and perception all in relation to technology. It is very interesting. One thing we were asked to do is to find a system that has some flaws and explain how the system could be improved. People thought of many things like the people who do security checks at the airport..computer systems..and so on..I thought about how a system can never be perfect because the people are flawed and will not be able to see every flaw to perfect a system. Especially because every person perceives things differently. From this class we have learned the fundamentals of the brain, and the vision and processing. Every human being has all of these capabilities to some extent but still see things and interpret things differently...probably because life experiences influence our perceptions. I thought of how the traffic lights are simple to understand...green means go..yellow means slow down and use caution..red means stop. We all know this, we were all taught this in driving school..However I have heard people say, red means stop..green means go and yellow means go faster..or even better, some people actually run red lights. I think there will never be a perfect view, or perfect system because human beings interpret situations to be and mean such different things. Even in class we could find examples of this. I would argue my note taking is different from another persons note taking and the information I think is interesting may be boring to another.. --------------------------------- Pinpoint customers who are looking for what you sell. --0-803148270-1192293148=:89531 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I am taking a class w Dr. Drews. Dr Strayer has mentioned him before..he teaches the Human Error and Engineering Psych and the Industrial Psych...Anyway, in his Engineering Psych class we talk about different theories and perception all in relation to technology. It is very interesting. One thing we were asked to do is to find a system that has some flaws and explain how the system could be improved. People thought of many things like the people who do security checks at the airport..computer systems..and so on..I thought about how a system can never be perfect because the people are flawed and will not be able to see every flaw to perfect a system.  Especially because every person perceives things differently. From this class we have learned the fundamentals of the brain, and the vision and processing. Every human being has all of these capabilities to some extent but still see things and interpret things differently...probably because life experiences influence our perceptions.  I thought of how the traffic lights are simple to understand...green means go..yellow means slow down and use caution..red means stop. We all know this, we were all taught this in driving school..However I have heard people say, red means stop..green means go and yellow means go faster..or even better, some people actually run red lights.  I think there will never be a perfect view, or perfect system because human beings interpret situations to be and mean such different things.  Even in class we could find examples of this. I would argue my note taking is different from another persons note taking and the information I think is interesting may be boring to another..

Pinpoint customers who are looking for what you sell. --0-803148270-1192293148=:89531-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Sun Oct 14 01:28:43 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (MR. Robert Lee Lambert) Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 17:28:43 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Psych3120] Proactive Interference In-Reply-To: <689284.89531.qm@web51502.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <215469.74477.qm@web51711.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Upon reading the Sensory memory and primary memory chapter in the book, I was interested in a couple of terms. For instance, Proactive Interference is when older learning interferes with new learning. And Retroactive is when later learning interferes with earlier learning. Basically both of these I can relate to. Seeing that i'm taking Sociology and Psychology and Medical classes, it's kind of hard to remember everything sepreatly. When I study one thing, and then the next day study another subject, it's harder to remember the first thing I studied. When I had all psychology classes last semester, it didn't seem such a drastic change even across different classes in the field. This is kind of an example of Proactive Interference. I hope we cover this more in class. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better Heartthrob. Get better relationship answers from someone who knows. Yahoo! Answers - Check it out. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&sid=396545433 From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Sun Oct 14 03:19:28 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Danielle Cysewski) Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 20:19:28 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] Depth Perception References: <200710030305.l93352HB017507@topo.csbs.utah.edu> Message-ID: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_023B_01C80DD6.5B3D0FF0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Depth Perception comes from 3 main sources: movement cues, pictorial = cues, and binocular cues. Pictorial cues tell us that based on = interposition, varying sizes, texture gradient, and linear perspective, = we can perceive which objects are far away and which are close. Motion = Parallax - the movement cue - says that as you move, objects at = different distances move in different directions and at different = speeds. Binocular cues are based on binocular disparity - the eyes being = offset by 3", giving 2 slightly different views of the world. These 2 = views, when combined, gives us 3D vision. Without this, a person would = not be able to see stereograms.=20 Danielle Cysewski ------=_NextPart_000_023B_01C80DD6.5B3D0FF0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Depth Perception comes from 3 main sources: movement cues, = pictorial cues,=20 and binocular cues. Pictorial cues tell us that based on interposition, = varying=20 sizes, texture gradient, and linear perspective, we can perceive which = objects=20 are far away and which are close. Motion Parallax - the movement cue - = says that=20 as you move, objects at different distances move in different directions = and at=20 different speeds. Binocular cues are based on binocular disparity - the = eyes=20 being offset by 3", giving 2 slightly different views of the world. = These 2=20 views, when combined, gives us 3D vision. Without this, a person would = not be=20 able to see stereograms.
Danielle Cysewski
------=_NextPart_000_023B_01C80DD6.5B3D0FF0-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Sun Oct 14 06:12:50 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Matt Hansen) Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 22:12:50 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Psych3120] multi-tasking Message-ID: <936294.58716.qm@web51901.mail.re2.yahoo.com> I was thinking about multi-tasking and its limitations. Its funny when I am driving a car and someone in the passenger seat is talking to me. I know when to say "yep", "uh huh", "ok" etc.., but I really have no idea what the person is talking about. I just wait for those pauses and pretend like I am listening. Its true that when I am focused on driving I really have no idea whats going on around me otherwise. It really is though to focus on more than one thing. If I do focus on the conversation my driving struggles. Sure I can maintain speed and direction, but if something required quick thinking I could be in trouble. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Fussy? Opinionated? Impossible to please? Perfect. Join Yahoo!'s user panel and lay it on us. http://surveylink.yahoo.com/gmrs/yahoo_panel_invite.asp?a=7 From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Mon Oct 15 01:51:59 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Sofia Rosalinda) Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 18:51:59 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] Psychology now in fashion? Message-ID: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0022_01C80E93.4CE29C00 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I was flipping through one of my various fashion mags this past weekend = and there was a feature on Rorschach tests as popular prints for = designers this season. They have coats, wallpaper, umbrellas, shirts, = etc all with the popular "ink blot" tests as the print. Personally, I = think it's pretty sweet and the nerd in me ordered one. As soon as I can = find the link I'll post it. But I thought it was cool. ------=_NextPart_000_0022_01C80E93.4CE29C00 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
I was flipping through one of my various fashion mags this past = weekend and=20 there was a feature on Rorschach tests as popular prints for designers = this=20 season. They have coats, wallpaper, umbrellas, shirts, etc all with the = popular=20 "ink blot" tests as the print. Personally, I think it's pretty sweet and = the=20 nerd in me ordered one. As soon as I can find the link I'll post it. But = I=20 thought it was cool.
 
------=_NextPart_000_0022_01C80E93.4CE29C00-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Mon Oct 15 02:31:49 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Steve Best) Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 18:31:49 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Psych3120] Pattern Recognition Message-ID: <608554.38956.qm@web36506.mail.mud.yahoo.com> --0-1030794659-1192411909=:38956 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit The other day I was observing the neighbor's cat while it was trying to sneak up on a flock of birds that were feeding in my yard. It was interesting to note how the birds would fly into the yard and practically land on the still, lifeless cat without even noticing it. Only when the cat sprang to life would the birds scatter out of danger. I then began to wonder how the birds recognize the cat in some instances but not in others. Do they actually have a template of life-threatening animals in their minds, or do they use some form of active interaction model, or neither? It then occured to me that the birds may have a different way of processing images in the first place. Do their neural signals get processed the same way and as completely as ours, or are the signals through their parallel pathways limited- perhaps their parvocellular pathway detecting form, color and shape is not as developed as ours, where they must depend more on movement? As long as the cat didn't move, the birds didn't seem to "see" it - only when it moved, did they react. --------------------------------- Boardwalk for $500? In 2007? Ha! Play Monopoly Here and Now (it's updated for today's economy) at Yahoo! Games. --0-1030794659-1192411909=:38956 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
The other day I was observing the neighbor's cat while it was trying to sneak up on a flock of birds that were feeding in my yard.  It was interesting to note how the birds would fly into the yard and practically land on the still, lifeless cat without even noticing it.  Only when the cat sprang to life would the birds scatter out of danger.  I then began to wonder how the birds recognize the cat in some instances but not in others.  Do they actually have a template of life-threatening animals in their minds, or do they use some form of active interaction model, or neither? 
It then occured to me that the birds may have a different way of processing images in the first place. Do their neural signals get processed the same way and as completely as ours, or are the signals through their parallel pathways limited- perhaps their parvocellular pathway detecting form, color and shape is not as developed as ours, where they must depend more on movement?  As long as the cat didn't move, the birds didn't seem to "see" it - only when it moved, did they react.

Boardwalk for $500? In 2007? Ha!
Play Monopoly Here and Now (it's updated for today's economy) at Yahoo! Games. --0-1030794659-1192411909=:38956-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Mon Oct 15 04:05:06 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (horii chieko) Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 12:05:06 +0900 Subject: [Psych3120] 3D Message-ID: --_809a61d0-87bf-411e-ba0b-424d6a01f5c1_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-2022-jp" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Since we have learned function of eyes, it was interesting to see 3D and 4D scenes during this fall break at Universal studio. I was not very sure what was name of the certain functions with a special glasses at that time except binocular one, so I searched it after that. Then, I found that as we perceive dimention of objects well through binocular function, we take 3D scneces as similler as reaction of a glasses with blue and red filters, I guess; the either blue or red work opposite color and let us see color black in the case. Then, I read an article says that a company broadcasted a CM with pop 3D objects on TV and posted up some posters with 3D effects this month in Japan. It is interesting if we have more chance to see them as we see them in a theater though we need still these glasses. _________________________________________________________________ $B%^%$%/%m%=%U%H$N:G?7 Since we have learned function of eyes, it was interesting to see 3D and 4D scenes during this fall break at Universal studio.
I was not very sure what was name of the certain functions with a special glasses at that time except binocular one,
so I searched it after that. Then, I found that as we perceive dimention of objects well through  binocular function,
we take 3D scneces as similler as reaction of a glasses with blue and red filters, I guess; the either blue or red work opposite color and
let us see color black in the case. Then, I read an article says that a company broadcasted a CM with pop 3D objects on TV and posted up some posters with 3D effects this month in Japan. It is interesting if we have more chance to see them as we see them in a theater though we need still these glasses.


$B%^%$%/%m%=%U%H$N:G?7http://promotion.msn.co.jp/ie7/ --_809a61d0-87bf-411e-ba0b-424d6a01f5c1_-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Mon Oct 15 06:04:58 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (erica smith) Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 23:04:58 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] (no subject) Message-ID: --_2ba30f0f-7c84-4233-8cdb-98471e8b608a_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable So I was thinking about attention and how it works when we are sleeping. I'= ve noticed when I fall asleep watching a movie I will automatically wake up= during the ending credits. Its not as if the credits are louder than the m= ovie, so maybe even though I am asleep my mind is conscious of certain thin= gs, so my question is, does selective attention apply even when we are asle= ep? erica smith _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live Hotmail and Microsoft Office Outlook =96 together at last. =A0= Get it now. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HA102225181033.aspx?pid=3DCL10062= 6971033= --_2ba30f0f-7c84-4233-8cdb-98471e8b608a_ Content-Type: text/html; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable So I was thinking about attention and how it works when we are sleeping. I'= ve noticed when I fall asleep watching a movie I will automatically wake up= during the ending credits. Its not as if the credits are louder than the m= ovie, so maybe even though I am asleep my mind is conscious of certain thin= gs, so my question is, does selective attention apply even when we are asle= ep?

erica smith



Windows Live Hotmail and Micr= osoft Office Outlook =96 together at last. Get it now! = --_2ba30f0f-7c84-4233-8cdb-98471e8b608a_-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Mon Oct 15 20:17:45 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Spencer Weston) Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:17:45 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] FW: Visual Illusions References: <51A7FD635262AB41A83F05F6B2AEA7B511E298@LP-EXCHVS03.CO.IHC.COM> Message-ID: <51A7FD635262AB41A83F05F6B2AEA7B511E2B4@LP-EXCHVS03.CO.IHC.COM> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C80F60.1D148658 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable -----Original Message----- From: Spencer Weston Sent: Sat 9/1/2007 5:16 PM To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Subject: Visual Illusions =20 A slow day at work turned into surfing the visual illusions on websites = linked by course website. Interestingly, as hours went by and I = experienced more and more illusions, I was interested to "see" that even = though I knew I was looking at illusions, I could not convince my mind = that the perception was wrong. This carried into the weeks' assignment = of looking at the moon. Oddly, looking at the moon in the city is not = as impressive as the same practice in the country where the nearest city = is miles away. Is it extra light? Lack of landmarks? Also, in the = country, the moon seems to remain somewhat large as it moves accross the = sky. Maybe it is related to the extra stars that can be seen in the sky = in the country acting as "landmarks"? What do you think? ------_=_NextPart_001_01C80F60.1D148658 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable FW: Visual Illusions


-----Original Message-----
From: Spencer Weston
Sent: Sat 9/1/2007 5:16 PM
To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu
Subject: Visual Illusions

A slow day at work turned into surfing the visual illusions on websites = linked by course website.  Interestingly, as hours went by and I = experienced more and more illusions, I was interested to "see" = that even though I knew I was looking at illusions, I could not convince = my mind that the perception was wrong.  This carried into the = weeks' assignment of looking at the moon.  Oddly, looking at the = moon in the city is not as impressive as the same practice in the = country where the nearest city is miles away.  Is it extra = light?  Lack of landmarks?  Also, in the country, the moon = seems to remain somewhat large as it moves accross the sky.  Maybe = it is related to the extra stars that can be seen in the sky in the = country acting as "landmarks"?  What do you think?

------_=_NextPart_001_01C80F60.1D148658-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Mon Oct 15 20:18:37 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Spencer Weston) Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:18:37 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] FW: Self Percepton References: <200709070222.l872M3oS019079@topo.csbs.utah.edu> <51A7FD635262AB41A83F05F6B2AEA7B511E29A@LP-EXCHVS03.CO.IHC.COM> Message-ID: <51A7FD635262AB41A83F05F6B2AEA7B511E2B5@LP-EXCHVS03.CO.IHC.COM> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C80F60.3284D9A8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable -----Original Message----- From: Spencer Weston Sent: Sat 9/8/2007 12:17 AM To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Subject: Self Percepton =20 Our perception of our surroundings are definitely interpreted = differently than the true reality being presented. I can't help but = wonder if our perception of ourselves is skewed in much the same way. = After all, one knows their own thoughts that those having an external = view cannot. Do you look in the mirror and interpret yourself opposite = as what others see you? As with the illusions and inaccuracies of our = visual system, does our own cognition reflect an accurate sense of self? = =20 ------_=_NextPart_001_01C80F60.3284D9A8 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable FW: Self Percepton


-----Original Message-----
From: Spencer Weston
Sent: Sat 9/8/2007 12:17 AM
To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu
Subject: Self Percepton

Our perception of our surroundings are definitely interpreted = differently than the true reality being presented.  I can't help = but wonder if our perception of ourselves is skewed in much the same = way.  After all, one knows their own thoughts that those having an = external view cannot.  Do you look in the mirror and interpret = yourself opposite as what others see you?  As with the illusions = and inaccuracies of our visual system, does our own cognition reflect an = accurate sense of self? 

------_=_NextPart_001_01C80F60.3284D9A8-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Mon Oct 15 20:16:59 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Charles Lincoln Allen) Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:16:59 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] False Memories (Charles Lincoln Allen) Message-ID: <53B33451F353DC4784145300898D36CC701A68@CAMPUSV4.xds.umail.utah.edu> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C80F5F.F539B3C2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable We talked about the possibilities of forming false memories by either = rewriting or miscoding them. I have seen this throughout my own life in = some strange places. I have found out that a few of my really vivid = memories from early childhood were not necessarily wrong, but they were = at an age that I couldn't really remember them, especially with the = clarity that I do. It turns out that these memories I thought I had were = simply the stories my parents loved to tell me. So even though I don't = really have the memories I still have a very clear image because of my = parents repeating the stories to me. I found this really interesting. =20 ------_=_NextPart_001_01C80F5F.F539B3C2 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable False Memories (Charles Lincoln Allen)

We talked about the possibilities of forming false = memories by either rewriting or miscoding them. I have seen this = throughout my own life in some strange places. I have found out that a = few of my really vivid memories from early childhood were not = necessarily wrong, but they were at an age that I couldn't really = remember them, especially with the clarity that I do. It turns out that = these memories I thought I had were simply the stories my parents loved = to tell me. So even though I don't really have the memories I still have = a very clear image because of my parents repeating the stories to me. I = found this really interesting. 

------_=_NextPart_001_01C80F5F.F539B3C2-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Mon Oct 15 21:19:53 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Megan Larsen) Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 14:19:53 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] Long-Term memory Message-ID: I was fascinated by the lecture today, specifically about long-term memory. I had no idea that we could change our memories and be unable to access the original ones! It makes me wonder how entirely accurate some of my memories are...I'm not going to end up in therapy over it or anything, but it makes me wonder :) From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Mon Oct 15 21:49:59 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (william sheltowt) Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 14:49:59 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] memory Message-ID: <8162db450710151349g7a78f8adt38cc1165f2e86d73@mail.gmail.com> ------=_Part_29495_26040093.1192481399886 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline One thing that I really enjoy about this class is the frequency in which faulty aspects of humans are pointed out. First we went over when humans fail at sensing, perceiving and attention, and know we are discussing the limits of memory. I think that the tendency for humans to create false memory's and to believe there memories is fascinating. I wonder how much legal action has been directed due to false memory. The traumatic effects of false memory intrigue me as well. I have heard about individuals creating false memories in therapy before, and the impact of leading questions is interesting. I know that in a great deal of my conversation I use leading questions. One thing that I will definently take away from this class is the fa liability of humans. -- be well, Bill Shelton ------=_Part_29495_26040093.1192481399886 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline One thing that I really enjoy about this class is the frequency in which faulty aspects of humans are pointed out.  First we went over when humans fail at sensing, perceiving and attention, and know we are discussing the limits of memory.  I think that the tendency for humans to create false memory's and to believe there memories is fascinating.  I wonder how much legal action has been directed due to false memory.  The traumatic effects of false memory intrigue me as well.  I have heard about individuals creating false memories in therapy before, and the impact of leading questions is interesting.  I know that in a great deal of my conversation I use leading questions.  One thing that I will definently take away from this class is the fa liability of humans.
--
be well,

Bill Shelton ------=_Part_29495_26040093.1192481399886-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Mon Oct 15 21:55:42 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Megan Larsen) Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 14:55:42 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] More about memory Message-ID: I was really in intersted in the lecture...as I mentioned before, so I went online and looked up more about it. I found this dissertation that was done on memory the sequence of things. Take a look! http://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/~rhenson/henson-phd.pdf From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Tue Oct 16 04:07:52 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (JAMES C HINCKLE) Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 21:07:52 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] Julie Hinckle: Response to Blindness in One Eye Message-ID: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0043_01C80F6F.72EE3760 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Melissa P. wrote an interesting post about a question on the test that = asked 'where is the damage if someone is completely blind in one eye'. = That started me thinking about blindness and I wondered if it matters = how the person became blind in the first place. Does it matter if that = person had an injury to the one eye (damage to the cornea or a detached = retina) or if that person went blind because of a disease? =20 Each injury or disease has specific parts of the eyes that are affected, = so wouldn't there be different areas affecting the blindness? Some = diseases that can cause loss of sight and blindness are diabetic = retinopathy, macular degeneration, retinitis pigmentosa and a detached = retina. All four cause damage to the retina. Glaucoma is another where = the optic nerve fibers slowly degenerate. However, if the cornea is = damaged or diseased, corneal transplants are available. It is pretty = amazing to think that different surgeries can be performed on the = eyeball like lens and corneal transplants, cataract removal, = reattachment of the retina and various laser surgeries. I did not = realize that detached retinas are not uncommon in athletes due to trauma = or blows to the eye area and head. Surgery can repair the damage most = of the time if caught early on. Maybe head injuries are why some = football players retire early. ------=_NextPart_000_0043_01C80F6F.72EE3760 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Melissa P. wrote an interesting post about a question on the = test that=20 asked 'where is the damage if someone is completely blind in one=20 eye'.  That started me thinking about blindness and I=20 wondered if it matters how the person became blind in = the=20 first place.  Does it matter if that person had an injury to = the one=20 eye (damage to the cornea or a detached retina) or if that person = went=20 blind because of a disease? 
Each injury or disease has specific parts of the eyes = that are=20 affected, so wouldn't there be different areas affecting=20 the blindness?  Some diseases that can cause loss of sight and = blindness are diabetic retinopathy, macular degeneration, retinitis=20 pigmentosa and a detached retina.  All four cause damage to = the=20 retina.  Glaucoma is another where the optic nerve fibers slowly=20 degenerate.  However, if the cornea is damaged or diseased, corneal = transplants are available.  It is pretty amazing to think that = different surgeries can be performed on the eyeball like lens and = corneal=20 transplants, cataract removal, reattachment of the retina and various = laser=20 surgeries.  I did not realize that detached retinas are not = uncommon=20 in athletes due to trauma or blows to the eye area and head.  = Surgery=20 can repair the damage most of the time if caught early = on.  Maybe=20 head injuries are why some football players retire=20 early.     
------=_NextPart_000_0043_01C80F6F.72EE3760-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Tue Oct 16 04:28:56 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Joseph Boyer) Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 20:28:56 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Psych3120] Re: Psych3120 digest, Vol 1 #1076 - 4 msgs In-Reply-To: <200710151900.l9FJ0Apv017429@topo.csbs.utah.edu> Message-ID: <599976.24522.qm@web56911.mail.re3.yahoo.com> --0-777090030-1192505336=:24522 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I have wondered before about memory and how it might be distributed through the brain. My grandma is 95 years old and we think she has Alzheimer's. She can tell us every detail about how she met my grandpa or about her college days at the U but she got lost last week (the police even had to be called) and half an hour later had zero recollection of what had happened. It is clear that some of her memory is good while other parts have completely gone. Some days are better than others; she knows everything about me one day and the next doesn't even know which of her daughters I belong to. So it is certainly a good thing memory is distributed throughout the brain so that some can stick around. psych3120-request@lists.csbs.utah.edu wrote: 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. Psychology now in fashion? (Sofia Rosalinda) 2. Pattern Recognition (Steve Best) 3. 3D (horii chieko) 4. (no subject) (erica smith) From: "Sofia Rosalinda" To: Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 18:51:59 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] Psychology now in fashion? I was flipping through one of my various fashion mags this past weekend and there was a feature on Rorschach tests as popular prints for designers this season. They have coats, wallpaper, umbrellas, shirts, etc all with the popular "ink blot" tests as the print. Personally, I think it's pretty sweet and the nerd in me ordered one. As soon as I can find the link I'll post it. But I thought it was cool. Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 18:31:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Steve Best To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Subject: [Psych3120] Pattern Recognition The other day I was observing the neighbor's cat while it was trying to sneak up on a flock of birds that were feeding in my yard. It was interesting to note how the birds would fly into the yard and practically land on the still, lifeless cat without even noticing it. Only when the cat sprang to life would the birds scatter out of danger. I then began to wonder how the birds recognize the cat in some instances but not in others. Do they actually have a template of life-threatening animals in their minds, or do they use some form of active interaction model, or neither? It then occured to me that the birds may have a different way of processing images in the first place. Do their neural signals get processed the same way and as completely as ours, or are the signals through their parallel pathways limited- perhaps their parvocellular pathway detecting form, color and shape is not as developed as ours, where they must depend more on movement? As long as the cat didn't move, the birds didn't seem to "see" it - only when it moved, did they react. --------------------------------- Boardwalk for $500? In 2007? Ha! Play Monopoly Here and Now (it's updated for today's economy) at Yahoo! Games.From: horii chieko To: Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 12:05:06 +0900 Subject: [Psych3120] 3D .hmmessage P { margin:0px; padding:0px } body.hmmessage { FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma } Since we have learned function of eyes, it was interesting to see 3D and 4D scenes during this fall break at Universal studio. I was not very sure what was name of the certain functions with a special glasses at that time except binocular one, so I searched it after that. Then, I found that as we perceive dimention of objects well through binocular function, we take 3D scneces as similler as reaction of a glasses with blue and red filters, I guess; the either blue or red work opposite color and let us see color black in the case. Then, I read an article says that a company broadcasted a CM with pop 3D objects on TV and posted up some posters with 3D effects this month in Japan. It is interesting if we have more chance to see them as we see them in a theater though we need still these glasses. --------------------------------- ޥեȤκǿ֥饦IE7MSNǤʤǤϤʵǽץ饹 http://promotion.msn.co.jp/ie7/ From: erica smith To: cognitive psych blog Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 23:04:58 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] (no subject) .hmmessage P { margin:0px; padding:0px } body.hmmessage { FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma } So I was thinking about attention and how it works when we are sleeping. I've noticed when I fall asleep watching a movie I will automatically wake up during the ending credits. Its not as if the credits are louder than the movie, so maybe even though I am asleep my mind is conscious of certain things, so my question is, does selective attention apply even when we are asleep? erica smith --------------------------------- Windows Live Hotmail and Microsoft Office Outlook together at last. 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I have wondered before about memory and how it might be distributed through the brain. My grandma is 95 years old and we think she has Alzheimer's. She can tell us every detail about how she met my grandpa or about her college days at the U but she got lost last week (the police even had to be called) and half an hour later had zero recollection of what had happened. It is clear that some of her memory is good while other parts have completely gone. Some days are better than others; she knows everything about me one day and the next doesn't even know which of her daughters I belong to.
So it is certainly a good thing memory is distributed throughout the brain so that some can stick around.

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From: "Sofia Rosalinda" <forgetmenot@q.com>
To: <psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu>
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 18:51:59 -0600
Subject: [Psych3120] Psychology now in fashion?

I was flipping through one of my various fashion mags this past weekend and there was a feature on Rorschach tests as popular prints for designers this season. They have coats, wallpaper, umbrellas, shirts, etc all with the popular "ink blot" tests as the print. Personally, I think it's pretty sweet and the nerd in me ordered one. As soon as I can find the link I'll post it. But I thought it was cool.
 
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 18:31:49 -0700 (PDT)
From: Steve Best <stevenlbest@yahoo.com>
To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu
Subject: [Psych3120] Pattern Recognition

The other day I was observing the neighbor's cat while it was trying to sneak up on a flock of birds that were feeding in my yard.  It was interesting to note how the birds would fly into the yard and practically land on the still, lifeless cat without even noticing it.  Only when the cat sprang to life would the birds scatter out of danger.  I then began to wonder how the birds recognize the cat in some instances but not in others.  Do they actually have a template of life-threatening animals in their minds, or do they use some form of active interaction model, or neither? 
It then occured to me that the birds may have a different way of processing images in the first place. Do their neural signals get processed the same way and as completely as ours, or are the signals through their parallel pathways limited- perhaps their parvocellular pathway detecting form, color and shape is not as developed as ours, where they must depend more on movement?  As long as the cat didn't move, the birds didn't seem to "see" it - only when it moved, did they react.
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Play Monopoly Here and Now (it's updated for today's economy) at Yahoo! Games.From: horii chieko <chorii-chorii@hotmail.co.jp>
To: <psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu>
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 12:05:06 +0900
Subject: [Psych3120] 3D

Since we have learned function of eyes, it was interesting to see 3D and 4D scenes during this fall break at Universal studio.
I was not very sure what was name of the certain functions with a special glasses at that time except binocular one,
so I searched it after that. Then, I found that as we perceive dimention of objects well through  binocular function,
we take 3D scneces as similler as reaction of a glasses with blue and red filters, I guess; the either blue or red work opposite color and
let us see color black in the case. Then, I read an article says that a company broadcasted a CM with pop 3D objects on TV and posted up some posters with 3D effects this month in Japan. It is interesting if we have more chance to see them as we see them in a theater though we need still these glasses.


ޥեȤκǿ֥饦IE7MSNǤʤǤϤʵǽץ饹 http://promotion.msn.co.jp/ie7/ From: erica smith <puffytail101@hotmail.com>
To: cognitive psych blog <psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu>
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 23:04:58 -0600
Subject: [Psych3120] (no subject)

So I was thinking about attention and how it works when we are sleeping. I've noticed when I fall asleep watching a movie I will automatically wake up during the ending credits. Its not as if the credits are louder than the movie, so maybe even though I am asleep my mind is conscious of certain things, so my question is, does selective attention apply even when we are asleep?

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Looking for a deal? Find great prices on flights and hotels with Yahoo! FareChase. --0-777090030-1192505336=:24522-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Tue Oct 16 04:59:31 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (David Dunn) Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 20:59:31 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Psych3120] varieties of memory Message-ID: <220910.96773.qm@web50611.mail.re2.yahoo.com> --0-1044602616-1192507171=:96773 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable When talking about memory it seems most common that people refer to either = a long term memory or a short term memory. However, there several types of= memory beyond these that the lay person is not familiar with. Those being= , sensory, episodic, semantic, procedural, declarative, explicit, and impli= cit. While these may fall in the realm of that listed above they are uniqu= e. Further, the description that most people, that I have heard, give of s= hort term memories are false. For example it is often heard when one is re= ferring to short term memory of instances that transpired earlier in the da= y, or even sometime during the week. These, as we learned today, are false= interpretations. Short term memory is the immediate information or stimul= us that we receive, it tends to be with us for a mere 15 to 20 seconds, if = we retain that memory for a period longer than this it has thus entered int= o our long term memory. Once something enters into our long term memory it is said to be there indefinitely. However, to generate recall o= f that memory we often require a specific cue to assist in bringing it to l= ight. For example, often a friend will say "did I tell you about the time = that I. . ." Having just this information may not trigger a response to the= memory, but after he begins to tell the story a particular portion of it m= ay do so and thus remind you of having heard this story before. This is go= od news for us as we study, we now need to figure a way to create cues that= will trigger the particular memories that we seek.=0A=0A=0A _________= ___________________________________________________________________________= =0ACheck out the hottest 2008 models today at Yahoo! Autos.=0Ahttp://autos.= yahoo.com/new_cars.html --0-1044602616-1192507171=:96773 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
When talking about memory it seems most common that pe= ople refer to either a long term memory or a short term memory.  Howev= er, there several types of memory beyond these that the lay person is = not familiar with.  Those being, sensory, episodic, semantic= , procedural, declarative, explicit, and implicit.  While these m= ay fall in the realm of that listed above they are unique.  Further, t= he description that most people, that I have heard, give of short term=  memories are false.  For example it is often heard when one is r= eferring to short term memory of instances that transpired earlier in the d= ay, or even sometime during the week.  These, as we learned today, are= false interpretations.  Short term memory is the immediate information or stimulus that we receive, it tends to be with us for a mere= 15 to 20 seconds, if we retain that memory for a period longer than this i= t has thus entered into our long term memory.  Once something enters i= nto our long term memory it is said to be there indefinitely.  However= , to generate recall of that memory we often require a specific cue to assi= st in bringing it to light.  For example, often a friend will say "did= I tell you about the time that I. . ." Having just this information may no= t trigger a response to the memory, but after he begins to tell the story a= particular portion of it may do so and thus remind you of having heard thi= s story before.  This is good news for us as we study, we now need to = figure a way to create cues that will trigger the particular memories that = we seek.

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Yahoo! Answer= s - Check it out. =0A --0-1044602616-1192507171=:96773-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Tue Oct 16 09:21:33 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu) Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 04:21:33 -0400 Subject: [Psych3120] Quintin Fidler: 50 First Dates Message-ID: <8C9DDE4B21F6263-EE0-C02@webmail-de06.sysops.aol.com> ----------MB_8C9DDE4B21F6263_EE0_17FC_webmail-de06.sysops.aol.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" In class today as we were getting an overview of how memory works I couldn't help thinking about the movie 50 First Dates with Drew Barrymore. The character she played, Lucy, had a brain injury that was similar to the person described in the lecture. In the movie Lucy is stuck re-living the day after her accident because she is unable to store long term memories or at least they are erased as soon as she goes to sleep. I have always wondered how realistic this character was. From what we learned today it seems unlikely that a person could have these symptoms. The fact that she can remember the whole day suggest that her long term memory is working, and that it is sleeping that is causing the memories to be lost. Has anyone heard of a real occurrence of such symptoms? A more realistic character may have been Ten Second Tom. Clearly nothing was being encoded into long term memory as he could only remember things for ten seconds. There was another interesting similarity between the person Dr. Strayer described and Lucy. Although the person couldn't remember his doctor he could remember that he didn't want to shake hands with him because the doctor had used a "joy buzzer" on him. In the movie Lucy couldn't remember her boy friend (Adam Sandler) but could paint pictures of him.? It would be interesting to see a comparison between real cases and Hollywood's version of them. ________________________________________________________________________ Email and AIM finally together. You've gotta check out free AOL Mail! - http://mail.aol.com ----------MB_8C9DDE4B21F6263_EE0_17FC_webmail-de06.sysops.aol.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" In class today as we were getting an overview of how memory works I couldn't help thinking about the movie 50 First Dates with Drew Barrymore. The character she played, Lucy, had a brain injury that was similar to the person described in the lecture. In the movie Lucy is stuck re-living the day after her accident because she is unable to store long term memories or at least they are erased as soon as she goes to sleep. I have always wondered how realistic this character was. From what we learned today it seems unlikely that a person could have these symptoms. The fact that she can remember the whole day suggest that her long term memory is working, and that it is sleeping that is causing the memories to be lost. Has anyone heard of a real occurrence of such symptoms? A more realistic character may have been Ten Second Tom. Clearly nothing was being encoded into long term memory as he could only remember things for ten seconds. There was another interesting similarity between the person Dr. Strayer described and Lucy. Although the person couldn't remember his doctor he could remember that he didn't want to shake hands with him because the doctor had used a "joy buzzer" on him. In the movie Lucy couldn't remember her boy friend (Adam Sandler) but could paint pictures of him.  It would be interesting to see a comparison between real cases and Hollywood's version of them.
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----------MB_8C9DDE4B21F6263_EE0_17FC_webmail-de06.sysops.aol.com-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Tue Oct 16 19:14:31 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Charles Lincoln Allen) Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 12:14:31 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] Sensory Register (Charles Lincoln Allen) Message-ID: <53B33451F353DC4784145300898D36CC701A69@CAMPUSV4.xds.umail.utah.edu> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C81020.65C0CCA0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I was wondering about the sensory register and how it holds and = organizes the sensory information we gather from the world around us. I = was studying for a test and some how got off subject and started = thinking of different learning styles, like auditory vs visual. Some = people need to read something in order to learn it while others must = hear it said aloud, while others must act it out or touch it to = understand it. Do these different learning styles relate to certain = differences in the sensory register area or is it located else where? ------_=_NextPart_001_01C81020.65C0CCA0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sensory Register (Charles Lincoln Allen)

I was wondering about the sensory register and how it = holds and organizes the sensory information we gather from the world = around us. I was studying for a test and some how got off subject and = started thinking of different learning styles, like auditory vs visual. = Some people need to read something in order to learn it while others = must hear it said aloud, while others must act it out or touch it to = understand it. Do these different learning styles relate to certain = differences in the sensory register area or is it located else = where?

------_=_NextPart_001_01C81020.65C0CCA0-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Tue Oct 16 21:33:18 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Erin Rutledge) Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 13:33:18 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Psych3120] Memory Loss Message-ID: <831481.10518.qm@web32410.mail.mud.yahoo.com> --0-79320070-1192566798=:10518 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I found Monday's lecture on short-term memory and long-term memory and how = they can be affected by injury very interesting and can relate to it person= ally. On December 28, 2005 my father had a severe heart attack and survive= d after being in a coma for twenty-one days in the ICU. Due to the severity= of the heart attack and the lengths of durations that it took to resuscita= te him, which was many times, he suffered brain damage due to lack of oxyge= n to his brain. When he first came out of the coma, he remembered who his = immediate family was, had trouble recognizing and putting names to faces of= relatives, friends, and neighbors, and could not remember anything prior t= o a month or so of the heart attack, including Thanksgiving or Christmas. = The doctors told us that the brain damage affected all parts of his brain a= nd they were not sure if his memory loss would be permanent or not and info= rmed us that only time would tell and after a year, his ability to remember at that time would be as it was. The first couple of months were = a real struggle for him and my family because my father could not remember = what he did three minutes ago and more frustrating for him, he could not re= member why he could not remember. He could not remember having the heart a= ttack and we had to tell him at least 100 times a day, sometimes five minut= es after we just finished telling him, that he had had a heart attack and s= uffers short-term memory loss because of it. It has now been almost two y= ears since the heart attack and my father is doing surprising well consider= ing that the doctors were amazed that he had even survived the heart attack= in the first place. His short term memory has improved somewhat and he ca= n remember now that he had a heart attack only because we have told him but= he still struggles with remembering the events of the day before. However= , if you remind him, he can sometimes remember doing what you said he did. Although he has improved, he is unable to work and enjoys spendin= g his days being on early retirement. In addition, due to the brain damage= my father's personality since the heart attack has also changed and he is = much more mellow and is no longer as high strung as he used to be. He has = turned into quite the joker and my family is very thankful every day and lu= cky to have him still in our lives.=0A=0AErin.=0A=0A=0A ______________= ______________________________________________________________________=0ACh= eck out the hottest 2008 models today at Yahoo! Autos.=0Ahttp://autos.yahoo= .com/new_cars.html --0-79320070-1192566798=:10518 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
I found Monday's lecture on short-term memory and long= -term memory and how they can be affected by injury very interesting and ca= n relate to it personally.  On December 28, 2005 my father had a sever= e heart attack and survived after being in a coma for twenty-one days in th= e ICU. Due to the severity of the heart attack and the lengths of dura= tions that it took to resuscitate him, which was many times, he suffer= ed brain damage due to lack of oxygen to his brain.  When he first cam= e out of the coma, he remembered who his immediate family was, had trouble = recognizing and putting names to faces of relatives, friends, and neighbors= , and could not remember anything prior to a month or so of the heart attac= k, including Thanksgiving or Christmas.  The doctors told us that the brain damage affected all parts of his brain and they were n= ot sure if his memory loss would be permanent or not and informed us t= hat only time would tell and after a year, his ability to remember at = that time would be as it was. The first couple of months were a real s= truggle for him and my family because my father could not remember what he = did three minutes ago and more frustrating for him, he could not remember w= hy he could not remember.  He could not remember having the heart= attack and we had to tell him at least 100 times a day, sometimes fiv= e minutes after we just finished telling him, that he had had a heart = attack and suffers short-term memory loss because of it.   I= t has now been almost two years since the heart attack and my father i= s doing surprising well considering that the doctors were amazed that he ha= d even survived the heart attack in the first place.  His short term memory has improved somewhat and he can remember now that he had a he= art attack only because we have told him but he still struggles with rememb= ering the events of the day before.  However, if you remind him, he ca= n sometimes remember doing what you said he did.  Although he has= improved, he is unable to work and enjoys spending his days being on early= retirement.  In addition, due to the brain damage my father's persona= lity since the heart attack has also changed and he is much more mellow and= is no longer as high strung as he used to be.  He has turned into qui= te the joker and my family is very thankful every day and lucky to have him= still in our lives.
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Check out the hottest 2008 m= odels today at Yahoo! Autos.=0A=0A=0A=0A --0-79320070-1192566798=:10518-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Tue Oct 16 21:35:12 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Matt Hansen) Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 13:35:12 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Psych3120] Memory Decoding Message-ID: <49519.6548.qm@web51902.mail.re2.yahoo.com> I noticed in class on Monday on one of the lecture slides that from the attention short term memory to the long term memory there is a coding/decoding process. This may provide insight as to why we cannot remember things very well as very young children. As we acquire language skills we begin to store memory in that type of code (English language). The more words we learn the more English is stored. As infants we must have stored memory in baby language (goo-goo gaga language) that is very simple. This is what we started out with. The more words we learn in English the less goo-goo gaga was used. As infants perhaps we use a different decoder to recall memory (baby language). The more the English decoder is used the less the baby language is used. Eventually the baby decoder does not become necessary and our minds use only the English decoder. A well known theory about the human body is "you don't use it, you lose it". Perhaps that is what is happening here. If you had a childhood memory that you thought of often that was in the baby stage, maybe it was translated into English at a time when the ability to use both languages was there, a transition stage. Anything that was not thought of or recalled during that time period became untranslatable. We must of had some sort of decoder otherwise how would we progress. Maybe it is like having a word document that was stored back in 1992 of Microsoft word and trying to open that file in a more advanced Microsoft word 2008 edition, forget about it. Well, perhaps thorough hypnosis you could bring that baby decoder back somehow. Although who wants to remember their parents changing their diaper anyhow. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Don't let your dream ride pass you by. Make it a reality with Yahoo! Autos. http://autos.yahoo.com/index.html From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Wed Oct 17 00:25:06 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Alyssa Messina) Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 17:25:06 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] Memory Message-ID: --_0710e310-e780-481d-9db8-ab17863e7470_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I was checking my email today and saw a link on MSN (http://health.msn.com/= guides/agingwell/articlepage.aspx?cp-documentid=3D100161182>1=3D10497) to= an article about aging and memory (not very substantive or scientifically = inclined, and I think it's really supposed to be aimed at those who are 40+= , but some of the points were still interesting). The article said that ad= equate sleep and meditation can improve memory because giving a constantly = thinking mind a break allows neurons to restore themselves, I guess allowin= g for better connectivity and memory formation later. It also mentioned th= at multi-tasking impairs memory formation with respect to those tasks, or t= hat selectively attending to something is the best way to encode that to me= mory. That makes sense, but I wonder what other connections between attent= ion and memory formations have been established. Like in terms of the dual= -task example, is there any pattern regarding memory formation of two disti= nct situation or is it always unpredictable? Another question I had came up in class, about repressing memory. I've nev= er believed that one could really consciously repress a memory. In fact, f= rom what was said during the lecture, memories tend to stay in long term an= d can be retrieved given the right cues or neural connections. How could s= omeone force their brains to sever the appropriate neural connections? Mor= eover, it seems that external cues that could potentially trigger a memory = could never be completely avoided. I would think that trying to forget som= ething would actually cause you to think about it more often, like if someo= ne were to tell you not to think of a white bear, you would think of a whit= e bear. With a traumatic memory, is it the case that the brain somehow ack= nowledges the mental distress and fights the source of it, like an anti-bod= y in the immune system? _________________________________________________________________ Peek-a-boo FREE Tricks & Treats for You! http://www.reallivemoms.com?ocid=3DTXT_TAGHM&loc=3Dus= --_0710e310-e780-481d-9db8-ab17863e7470_ Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I was checking my email today and saw a link on MSN (http://health.msn.com/guides/agingwell/articlepage.aspx?c= p-documentid=3D100161182&GT1=3D10497) to an article about agin= g and memory (not very substantive or scientifically inclined, and&nbs= p;I think it's really supposed to be aimed at those who are 40+, but some o= f the points were still interesting).  The article said that adequate = sleep and meditation can improve memory because giving a constantly thinkin= g mind a break allows neurons to restore themselves, I guess allowing for b= etter connectivity and memory formation later.  It also mentioned that= multi-tasking impairs memory formation with respect to those tasks, or tha= t selectively attending to something is the best way to encode that to memo= ry.  That makes sense, but I wonder what other connections between att= ention and memory formations have been established.  Like in terms of = the dual-task example, is there any pattern regarding memory formation of t= wo distinct situation or is it always unpredictable?
Another question I had came up in class, about repressing memory.  I'v= e never believed that one could really consciously repress a memory.  = In fact, from what was said during the lecture, memories tend to stay in lo= ng term and can be retrieved given the right cues or neural connections.&nb= sp; How could someone force their brains to sever the appropriate neur= al connections?  Moreover, it seems that external cues that could pote= ntially trigger a memory could never be completely avoided.  I would t= hink that trying to forget something would actually cause you to think abou= t it more often, like if someone were to tell you not to think of a white b= ear, you would think of a white bear.  With a traumatic memory, is it = the case that the brain somehow acknowledges the mental distress and fights= the source of it, like an anti-body in the immune system?

P= eek-a-boo FREE Tricks & Treats for You! Get 'em! = --_0710e310-e780-481d-9db8-ab17863e7470_-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Wed Oct 17 04:27:23 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Andrea Stark) Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 21:27:23 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] (no subject) Message-ID: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C8106D.A1BD3234 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I had the opportunity over fall break to spend some time at my brother's = out of state and meet his new twins. As I spent time with these babies I = took notice of the infant swing they had. This child swing was the kind = where the baby reclines somewhat and has music that plays and lights = that flash along with some toys that hang down so the baby can interact = with them. What I specifically noticed was that there were four colored = lights that alternated flashing. Two lights above the right side and two = lights above the left side. On the one side the lights were blue and = yellow and on the other side they were red and green. When I saw this it = made me think about learning the opponent process theory of color vision = and how color opposites work. I thought that perhaps the choice and = position of these lights was intentional and that the swing's = manufacturer had done some research on the subject and had patterned the = design in order to promote the development of opponent cells in the = infant's brain so that color vision development is encouraged. The other = question that came to mind was whether choosing one set of colors over = the other for a specific side had any scientific background such as = whether red/green cells corresponded to one side of the brain over the = other... ------_=_NextPart_001_01C8106D.A1BD3234 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable =0A= =0A= =0A= =0A=
I had the opportunity = over fall break to spend some time at my brother's out of state and meet = his new twins. As I spent time with these babies I took notice of the = infant swing they had. This child swing was the kind where the baby = reclines somewhat and has music that plays and lights that flash along = with some toys that hang down so the baby can interact with them. What I = specifically noticed was that there were four colored lights that = alternated flashing. Two lights above the right side and two lights = above the left side. On the one side the lights were blue and yellow and = on the other side they were red and green. When I saw this it made me = think about learning the opponent process theory of color vision and how = color opposites work. I thought that perhaps the choice and position of = these lights was intentional and that the swing's manufacturer had = done some research on the subject and had patterned the design in order = to promote the development of opponent cells in the infant's brain so = that color vision development is encouraged. The other question that = came to mind was whether choosing one set of colors over the other for a = specific side had any scientific background such as whether red/green = cells corresponded to one side of the brain over the = other...
------_=_NextPart_001_01C8106D.A1BD3234-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Wed Oct 17 04:56:51 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (sapna bhakta) Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 03:56:51 +0000 Subject: [Psych3120] sapna bhakta In-Reply-To: <200710160333.l9G3X2Yn024611@topo.csbs.utah.edu> References: <200710160333.l9G3X2Yn024611@topo.csbs.utah.edu> Message-ID: --_e3035ae4-067f-4eef-bcc5-d7f112062f1f_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Todays lecture was very interesting. I always knew that there were two typ= es of memory;short term memory and long term memory. However, I never reall= y knew the details of each. It was interesting to find out that short term= memory really only works if you rehearse things. It was also interesting = to find out that infomation starts to decay after 15 seconds. Once you hav= e something in short term memory does it automatically enter long term memo= ry? =20 Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 21:33:02 -0600From: psych3120-request@lists.csbs.uta= h.eduSubject: Psych3120 digest, Vol 1 #1077 - 8 msgsTo: psych3120@lists.csb= s.utah.eduSend Psych3120 mailing list submissions to psych3120@lists.csbs.u= tah.edu To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://li= sts.csbs.utah.edu/listinfo.cgi/psych3120or, via email, send a message with = subject or body 'help' to psych3120-request@lists.csbs.utah.edu You can rea= ch the person managing the list at psych3120-admin@lists.csbs.utah.edu When= replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specificthan "Re: Co= ntents of Psych3120 digest..."=20 --Forwarded Message Attachment--Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:17:45 -0600From: = Spencer.Weston@intermountainmail.orgTo: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.eduSubjec= t: [Psych3120] FW: Visual Illusions -----Original Message-----From: Spencer WestonSent: Sat 9/1/2007 5:16 PMTo:= psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.eduSubject: Visual IllusionsA slow day at work t= urned into surfing the visual illusions on websites linked by course websit= e. Interestingly, as hours went by and I experienced more and more illusio= ns, I was interested to "see" that even though I knew I was looking at illu= sions, I could not convince my mind that the perception was wrong. This ca= rried into the weeks' assignment of looking at the moon. Oddly, looking at= the moon in the city is not as impressive as the same practice in the coun= try where the nearest city is miles away. Is it extra light? Lack of land= marks? Also, in the country, the moon seems to remain somewhat large as it= moves accross the sky. Maybe it is related to the extra stars that can be= seen in the sky in the country acting as "landmarks"? What do you think? --Forwarded Message Attachment--Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:18:37 -0600From: = Spencer.Weston@intermountainmail.orgTo: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.eduSubjec= t: [Psych3120] FW: Self Percepton -----Original Message-----From: Spencer WestonSent: Sat 9/8/2007 12:17 AMTo= : psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.eduSubject: Self PerceptonOur perception of our= surroundings are definitely interpreted differently than the true reality = being presented. I can't help but wonder if our perception of ourselves is= skewed in much the same way. After all, one knows their own thoughts that= those having an external view cannot. Do you look in the mirror and inter= pret yourself opposite as what others see you? As with the illusions and i= naccuracies of our visual system, does our own cognition reflect an accurat= e sense of self?=20 --Forwarded Message Attachment--Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:16:59 -0600From: = u0390673@utah.eduTo: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.eduSubject: [Psych3120] Fals= e Memories (Charles Lincoln Allen) We talked about the possibilities of forming false memories by either rewri= ting or miscoding them. I have seen this throughout my own life in some str= ange places. I have found out that a few of my really vivid memories from e= arly childhood were not necessarily wrong, but they were at an age that I c= ouldn't really remember them, especially with the clarity that I do. It tur= ns out that these memories I thought I had were simply the stories my paren= ts loved to tell me. So even though I don't really have the memories I stil= l have a very clear image because of my parents repeating the stories to me= . I found this really interesting.=20 --Forwarded Message Attachment--From: meg_meg84@msn.comTo: psych3120@lists.= csbs.utah.eduDate: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 14:19:53 -0600Subject: [Psych3120] Long= -Term memoryI was fascinated by the lecture today, specifically about long-= term memory. I had no idea that we could change our memories and be unable = to access the original ones! It makes me wonder how entirely accurate some = of my memories are...I'm not going to end up in therapy over it or anything= , but it makes me wonder :) =20 --Forwarded Message Attachment--Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 14:49:59 -0600From: = sheltowt@gmail.comTo: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.eduSubject: [Psych3120] mem= oryOne thing that I really enjoy about this class is the frequency in which= faulty aspects of humans are pointed out. First we went over when humans = fail at sensing, perceiving and attention, and know we are discussing the l= imits of memory. I think that the tendency for humans to create false memo= ry's and to believe there memories is fascinating. I wonder how much legal= action has been directed due to false memory. The traumatic effects of fa= lse memory intrigue me as well. I have heard about individuals creating fa= lse memories in therapy before, and the impact of leading questions is inte= resting. I know that in a great deal of my conversation I use leading ques= tions. One thing that I will definently take away from this class is the f= a liability of humans.-- be well,Bill Shelton --Forwarded Message Attachment--From: meg_meg84@msn.comTo: psych3120@lists.= csbs.utah.eduDate: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 14:55:42 -0600Subject: [Psych3120] More= about memoryI was really in intersted in the lecture...as I mentioned befo= re, so I went online and looked up more about it. I found this dissertation= that was done on memory the sequence of things. Take a look! http://www.fi= l.ion.ucl.ac.uk/~rhenson/henson-phd.pdf =20 --Forwarded Message Attachment--From: jimandjulie@msn.comTo: psych3120@list= s.csbs.utah.eduDate: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 21:07:52 -0600Subject: [Psych3120] Ju= lie Hinckle: Response to Blindness in One Eye style=3D"PADDING-LEFT: 10px; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #= 000000; BORDER-TOP-STYLE: none; PADDING-TOP: 15px; FONT-STYLE: normal; FONT= -FAMILY: Verdana; BORDER-RIGHT-STYLE: none; BORDER-LEFT-STYLE: none; TEXT-D= ECORATION: none; BORDER-BOTTOM-STYLE: none" leftMargin=3D0 topMargin=3D0 ac= c_role=3D"text" CanvasTabStop=3D"true" name=3D"Compose message area"> Melissa P. wrote an interesting post about a question on the test that aske= d 'where is the damage if someone is completely blind in one eye'. That st= arted me thinking about blindness and I wondered if it matters how the pers= on became blind in the first place. Does it matter if that person had an i= njury to the one eye (damage to the cornea or a detached retina) or if that= person went blind because of a disease? =20 Each injury or disease has specific parts of the eyes that are affected, so= wouldn't there be different areas affecting the blindness? Some diseases = that can cause loss of sight and blindness are diabetic retinopathy, macula= r degeneration, retinitis pigmentosa and a detached retina. All four cause= damage to the retina. Glaucoma is another where the optic nerve fibers sl= owly degenerate. However, if the cornea is damaged or diseased, corneal tr= ansplants are available. It is pretty amazing to think that different surg= eries can be performed on the eyeball like lens and corneal transplants, ca= taract removal, reattachment of the retina and various laser surgeries. I = did not realize that detached retinas are not uncommon in athletes due to t= rauma or blows to the eye area and head. Surgery can repair the damage mos= t of the time if caught early on. Maybe head injuries are why some footbal= l players retire early. =20 --Forwarded Message Attachment--Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 20:28:56 -0700From: = joeboyer31@yahoo.comTo: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.eduSubject: [Psych3120] R= e: Psych3120 digest, Vol 1 #1076 - 4 msgs I have wondered before about memory and how it might be distributed through= the brain. My grandma is 95 years old and we think she has Alzheimer's. Sh= e can tell us every detail about how she met my grandpa or about her colleg= e days at the U but she got lost last week (the police even had to be calle= d) and half an hour later had zero recollection of what had happened. It is= clear that some of her memory is good while other parts have completely go= ne. Some days are better than others; she knows everything about me one day= and the next doesn't even know which of her daughters I belong to.=20 So it is certainly a good thing memory is distributed throughout the brain = so that some can stick around. psych3120-request@lists.csbs.utah.edu wrote: Send Psych3120 mailing list submissions topsych3120@lists.csbs.utah.eduTosu= bscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visithttp://lists.csbs.utah.= edu/listinfo.cgi/psych3120or, via email, send a message with subject or bod= y 'help' topsych3120-request@lists.csbs.utah.eduYou can reach the person ma= naging the list atpsych3120-admin@lists.csbs.utah.eduWhen replying, please = edit your Subject line so it is more specificthan "Re: Contents of Psych312= 0 digest..."Today's Topics:1. Psychology now in fashion? (Sofia Rosalinda)2= . Pattern Recognition (Steve Best)3. 3D (horii chieko)4. (no subject) (eric= a smith)From: "Sofia Rosalinda" To: Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 18:51:59 -0600Subject: [Psych3120] Psycho= logy now in fashion? I was flipping throughone of my various fashion mags this past weekend and = there was a feature on Rorschach tests as popular prints for designers this= season. They have coats, wallpaper, umbrellas, shirts, etc all with the po= pular "ink blot" tests as the print. Personally, I think it's pretty sweet = and the nerd in me ordered one. As soon as I can find the link I'll post it= . But I thought it was cool. Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 18:31:49 -0700 (PDT)From: Steve Best To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.eduSubject: [Psych3120] Pattern Reco= gnition The other day I was observing the neighbor's cat while it was trying to sne= ak up on a flock of birds that were feeding in my yard. It was interesting= to note how the birds would fly into the yard and practically land on the = still, lifeless cat without even noticing it. Only when the cat sprang to = life would the birds scatter out of danger. I then began to wonder how the= birds recognize the cat in some instances but not in others. Do they actua= lly have a template of life-threatening animals in their minds, or do they = use some form of active interaction model, or neither? =20 It then occured to me that the birds may have a different way of processing= images in the first place. Do their neural signals get processed the same = way and as completely as ours, or are the signals through their parallel pa= thways limited- perhaps their parvocellular pathway detecting form, color a= nd shape is not as developed as ours, where they must depend more on moveme= nt? As long as the cat didn't move, the birds didn't seem to "see" it - on= ly when it moved, did they react. Boardwalk for $500? In 2007? Ha! Play Monopoly Here and Now (it's updated f= or today's economy) at Yahoo! Games.From: horii chiekoTo: Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 12:05:06 = +0900Subject: [Psych3120] 3D Since we have learned function of eyes, it was interesting to see 3D and 4D= scenes during this fall break at Universal studio. I was not very sure wha= t was name of the certain functions with a special glasses at that time exc= ept binocular one, so I searched it after that. Then, I found that as we pe= rceive dimention of objects well through binocular function, we take 3D sc= neces as similler as reaction of a glasses with blue and red filters, I gue= ss; the either blue or red work opposite color and let us see color black i= n the case. Then, I read an article says that a company broadcasted a CM wi= th pop 3D objects on TV and posted up someposters with 3D effects this mont= h in Japan. It is interesting if we have more chance to see them as we see = them in a theater though we need still these glasses.=20 =A5=DE=A5=A4=A5=AF=A5=ED=A5=BD=A5=D5=A5=C8=A4=CE=BA=C7=BF=B7=BC=A1=C0=A4=C2= =E5=A5=D6=A5=E9=A5=A6=A5=B6IE7=A4=CBMSN=C8=C7=A4=CA=A4=E9=A4=C7=A4=CF=A4=CE= =CA=D8=CD=F8=A4=CA=B5=A1=C7=BD=A4=F2=A5=D7=A5=E9=A5=B9 http://promotion.msn= .co.jp/ie7/ From: erica smith To: cognitive psych= blog Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 23:04:58 -0600S= ubject: [Psych3120] (no subject) So I was thinking about attention and how it works when we are sleeping. I'= ve noticed when I fall asleep watching a movie I will automatically wake up= during the ending credits. Its not as if the credits are louder than the m= ovie, so maybe even though I am asleep mymind is conscious of certain thing= s, so my question is, does selective attention apply even when we are aslee= p?erica smith Windows Live Hotmail and Microsoft Office Outlook =96 together at last. 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Todays lecture was very interesting.  I always knew that there wer= e two types of memory;short term memory and long term memory. However, I ne= ver really knew the details of each.  It was interesting to find out t= hat short term memory really only works if you rehearse things.  It wa= s also interesting to find out that infomation starts to decay after 15 sec= onds.  Once you have something in short term memory does it automatica= lly enter long term memory? 
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A slow day at work turned into s= urfing the visual illusions on websites linked by course website.  Int= erestingly, as hours went by and I experienced more and more illusions, I w= as interested to "see" that even though I knew I was looking at illusions, = I could not convince my mind that the perception was wrong.  This carr= ied into the weeks' assignment of looking at the moon.  Oddly, looking= at the moon in the city is not as impressive as the same practice in the c= ountry where the nearest city is miles away.  Is it extra light? = Lack of landmarks?  Also, in the country, the moon seems to remain so= mewhat large as it moves accross the sky.  Maybe it is related to the = extra stars that can be seen in the sky in the country acting as "landmarks= "?  What do you think?








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Our perception of our surrounding= s are definitely interpreted differently than the true reality being presen= ted.  I can't help but wonder if our perception of ourselves is skewed= in much the same way.  After all, one knows their own thoughts that t= hose having an external view cannot.  Do you look in the mirror and in= terpret yourself opposite as what others see you?  As with the illusio= ns and inaccuracies of our visual system, does our own cognition reflect an= accurate sense of self? 








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We talked about the possibilities of forming false memories = by either rewriting or miscoding them. I have seen this throughout my own l= ife in some strange places. I have found out that a few of my really vivid = memories from early childhood were not necessarily wrong, but they were at = an age that I couldn't really remember them, especially with the clarity th= at I do. It turns out that these memories I thought I had were simply the s= tories my parents loved to tell me. So even though I don't really have the = memories I still have a very clear image because of my parents repeating th= e stories to me. I found this really interesting. 


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Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 14:19:53 -0600<= BR>Subject: [Psych3120] Long-Term memory

I was fascinated by th=
e lecture today, specifically about long-term memory. 
I had no idea tha=
t we could change our memories and be unable to access the 
original one=
s! It makes me wonder how entirely accurate some of my memories 
are...I=
'm not going to end up in therapy over it or anything, but it makes 
me =
wonder :)
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Subject: [Psych3120] memory

One thing that I really enjoy about = this class is the frequency in which faulty aspects of humans are pointed o= ut.  First we went over when humans fail at sensing, perceiving and at= tention, and know we are discussing the limits of memory.  I think tha= t the tendency for humans to create false memory's and to believe there mem= ories is fascinating.  I wonder how much legal action has been directe= d due to false memory.  The traumatic effects of false memory intrigue= me as well.  I have heard about individuals creating false memories i= n therapy before, and the impact of leading questions is interesting. = I know that in a great deal of my conversation I use leading questions.&nb= sp; One thing that I will definently take away from this class is the fa li= ability of humans.

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be well,

Bill Shelton
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I was really in inter=
sted in the lecture...as I mentioned before, so I went 
online and looke=
d up more about it. I found this dissertation that was done 
on memory t=
he sequence of things. Take a look!
 
http://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac=
.uk/~rhenson/henson-phd.pdf
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Subject: [Psych3120] Julie Hinckle: Response to Blindness in One Eye






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Melissa P. wrote an interesting post about a question on the test= that
asked 'where is the damage if someone is completely blind in one =
eye'.  That started me thinking about blindness and I wondered if it matters how the person became blind in = the
first place.  Does it matter if that person had an injury= to the one
eye (damage to the cornea or a detached retina) or if = that person went
blind because of a disease? 

Each injury or disease has specific parts of the eyes that a= re
affected, so wouldn't there be different areas affecting
th= e blindness?  Some diseases that can cause loss of sight and
= blindness are diabetic retinopathy, macular degeneration, retinitis
pig= mentosa and a detached retina.  All four cause damage to the
= retina.  Glaucoma is another where the optic nerve fibers slowly
d= egenerate.  However, if the cornea is damaged or diseased, corneal transplants are available.  It is pretty amazing to think that <= BR>different surgeries can be performed on the eyeball like lens and c= orneal
transplants, cataract removal, reattachment of the retina and va= rious laser
surgeries.  I did not realize that detached retin= as are not uncommon
in athletes due to trauma or blows to the eye = area and head.  Surgery
can repair the damage most of the tim= e if caught early on.  Maybe
head injuries are why some footb= all players retire
early.     

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I have wondered before about memory and how it might be distributed th= rough the brain. My grandma is 95 years old and we think she has Alzhe= imer's. She can tell us every detail about how she met my grandpa or about = her college days at the U but she got lost last week (the police even had t= o be called) and half an hour later had zero recollection of what had happe= ned. It is clear that some of her memory is good while other parts have com= pletely gone. Some days are better than others; she knows everything about = me one day and the next doesn't even know which of her daughters I belong t= o.
So it is certainly a good thing memory is distributed throughout the b= rain so that some can stick around.

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1. Psychology now in fash= ion? (Sofia Rosalinda)
2. Pattern Recognition (Steve Best)
3. 3D (hor= ii chieko)
4. (no subject) (erica smith)
From: "Sofia Rosalinda" <= forgetmenot@q.com>
To: <psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu>
Date:= Sun, 14 Oct 2007 18:51:59 -0600
Subject: [Psych3120] Psychology now in = fashion?

I was flipping through
one of my various fashion mags this past wee= kend and there was a feature on Rorschach tests as popular prints for desig= ners this season. They have coats, wallpaper, umbrellas, shirts, etc all wi= th the popular "ink blot" tests as the print. Personally, I think it's pret= ty sweet and the nerd in me ordered one. As soon as I can find the link I'l= l post it. But I thought it was cool.
 
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 18:31:49 -0700 (PDT)
From: Steve= Best <stevenlbest@yahoo.com>
To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.eduSubject: [Psych3120] Pattern Recognition

The other day I was observing the neighbor's cat while it was trying t= o sneak up on a flock of birds that were feeding in my yard.  It was i= nteresting to note how the birds would fly into the yard and practically la= nd on the still, lifeless cat without even noticing it.  Only when the= cat sprang to life would the birds scatter out of danger.  I then beg= an to wonder how the
birds recognize the cat in some instances but not i= n others.  Do they actually have a template of life-threatening animal= s in their minds, or do they use some form of active interaction model, or = neither? 
It then occured to me that the birds may have a different way of proce= ssing images in the first place. Do their neural signals get processed the = same way and as completely as ours, or are the signals through their parall= el pathways limited- perhaps their parvocellular pathway detecting form, co= lor and shape is not as developed as ours, where they must depend more on m= ovement?  As long as the cat didn't move, the birds didn't seem to "se= e" it - only when it moved, did they react.
Boardwalk for $500? In 2007? Ha!
Pl= ay Monopoly Here and Now (it's updated for today's economy) at Yahoo! G= ames.From: horii chieko
<chorii-chorii@hotmail.co.jp>
To: <p= sych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu>
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 12:05:06 +0900Subject: [Psych3120] 3D

Since we have learned function of eyes, it was interesting to see 3D and 4D= scenes during this fall break at Universal studio.
I was not very sure= what was name of the certain functions with a special glasses at that time= except binocular one,
so I searched it after that. Then, I f= ound that as we perceive dimention of objects well through  binoc= ular function,
we take 3D scneces as similler as reaction of a gla= sses with blue and red filters, I guess; the either blue or red work o= pposite color and
let us see color black in the case. Then, I read=  an article says that a company broadcasted a CM with pop 3D obje= cts on TV and posted up some
posters with 3D effects this month in Japan= . It is interesting if we have more chance to see them as we= see them in a theater though we need still these glasses.


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To: cognitive psych blog <psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu>
Da= te: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 23:04:58 -0600
Subject: [Psych3120] (no subject)
So I was thinking about attention and how it works when we are sleeping. I'= ve noticed when I fall asleep watching a movie I will automatically wake up= during the ending credits. Its not as if the credits are louder than the m= ovie, so maybe even though I am asleep my
mind is conscious of certain t= hings, so my question is, does selective attention apply even when we are a= sleep?

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Help yourself to= FREE treats served up daily at the Messenger Caf=E9. Stop by today! = --_e3035ae4-067f-4eef-bcc5-d7f112062f1f_-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Wed Oct 17 05:10:43 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Yoshida Taihei) Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 13:10:43 +0900 Subject: [Psych3120] taihei yoshida Message-ID: --_37f77dcb-5302-418d-b00a-447ba1963576_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-2022-jp" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit it was interesting to study memory. It is famous, so I knew it about short term memory, long term memory, and 7 numbers of limitation. however, it is also famous some people memorize huge numbers of digits of "Pi" 3.14159...... I checked the websight about psychology, they also remember those with the limitation of 7 numbers theory. From this websight, all people remeber with using the 7 chunks of groups. The easiest example is remembering the phone numvers, which is the one the professor used in the class. _________________________________________________________________ $B!Z(BMSN$B%S%G%*![D65.=E!*6C$-$NBgJ*BPCL$,eN6$,OCBj$N$"$N?M$KGw$k(B http://video.msn.co.jp/rvr/default.htm --_37f77dcb-5302-418d-b00a-447ba1963576_ Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-2022-jp" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit it was interesting to study memory.  It is famous, so I knew it about short term memory, long term memory, and 7 numbers of limitation.  however, it is also famous some people memorize huge numbers of digits of "Pi" 3.14159......  I checked the websight about psychology, they also remember those with the limitation of 7 numbers theory.  From this websight, all people remeber with using the 7 chunks of groups.  The easiest example is remembering the phone numvers, which is  the one the professor used in the class.

$B!Z(BMSN$B%S%G%*![D65.=E!*6C$-$NBgJ*BPCL$,eN6$,OCBj$N$"$N?M$KGw$k(B http://video.msn.co.jp/rvr/default.htm --_37f77dcb-5302-418d-b00a-447ba1963576_-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Wed Oct 17 06:10:15 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Melissa Davenport) Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 23:10:15 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] Memory Message-ID: --_08fc92ba-7b1b-4f4f-a42d-267a59296b37_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I find myself never remembering my bank account number. After, Monday's lec= ture i realized that when i look at my account number it is not grouped into 3 or 4 subgrou= ps which makes it hard to memorize and remember. I thought that a lot of things that were sa= id on monday were things that I could really relate to in my own life.=20 I found it interesting that a reason that we cannot remember anything from = when we are young=20 is we do not retrieve the information the same as we processed it as a youn= g child. This has always been a question that I have heard many explanations to, but= this one=20 seems to make the most sense.=20 It makes me wonder when companies come out with baby einstein videos and pr= ograms for=20 toddlers that specialize in making a 'genius' out of your child, if they ar= e using methods such=20 as trying to get the kids to encode the information in a different way so t= hat it can be=20 used and remembered. Melissa Davenport _________________________________________________________________ Peek-a-boo FREE Tricks & Treats for You! http://www.reallivemoms.com?ocid=3DTXT_TAGHM&loc=3Dus= --_08fc92ba-7b1b-4f4f-a42d-267a59296b37_ Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I find myself never remembering my bank account number. After, Monday's lec= ture i realized
that when i look at my account number it is not grouped into 3 or 4 subgrou= ps which makes it
 hard to memorize and remember. I thought that a lot of things that we= re said on monday
were things that I could really relate to in my own life.
I found it interesting that a reason that we cannot remember anything from = when we are young
is we do not retrieve the information the same as we processed it as a youn= g child.
This has always been a question that I have heard many explanations to, but= this one
seems to make the most sense.
It makes me wonder when companies come out with baby einstein videos and pr= ograms for
toddlers that specialize in making a 'genius' out of your child, if they ar= e using methods such
as trying to get the kids to encode the information in a different way so t= hat it can be
used and remembered.
  Melissa Davenport

Peek-a-boo FREE Tricks & Treats for= You! Get 'em! = --_08fc92ba-7b1b-4f4f-a42d-267a59296b37_-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Wed Oct 17 06:51:43 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Andrea Kalvesmaki) Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:51:43 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Psych3120] Memory Message-ID: <739863.20458.qm@web38914.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In this current chapter and study on memory, I am really interested in the multiple forms of memory, and how information can be coded on different 'channels'. I am a highly kinesthetic person. I have to touch, handle, or be in a place to better understand what I am learning. Dr. Strayer touched on a portion of 'physical' or kinesthetic memory very briefly in the last lecture. He mentioned how, if you sit in the same chair day after day in lecture, and you return to this chair to take the test, you will actually be able to access more of your memory of what took place in class to be able to answer questions on the test. This is a documented form of kinesthetic 'anchor', which is a phyiscal stimulus that will produce a memory response. I don't believe this is in our book, but one can find out more about it when studying neurological theories for brain functioning. In our lecture and text, it talks about how, if you recreate the original state one received information in the first place, the higher the ability for recall... this combines of course all channels, not just the physical aspects, but the auditory and visual channels as well. I think this aspect of learning and memory acquisition is fantastic, and can really be applied directly into our daily lives if we are aware of it. From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Wed Oct 17 22:07:48 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Melissa Priest) Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 21:07:48 +0000 Subject: [Psych3120] Memory: clumping and cues - melissa priest Message-ID: 6294183481042673...I believe these are the 16 digits presented in class today when discussing the Waugh & Norman task. During class I clumped or divided the 16 digits into groups of three. I wanted to see if I could remember the entire sequence of numbers by working with 6 units of information as compared to 16 units. I rehearsed maybe five times during class and then maybe twice on my way home. And it worked, I think. The easiest set of three for me to remember was 418. The reason being is that it began the sequence that was underlined on the slide presentation. Visually this sequence stood out to me, even more so than the first sequence, 629. It could be that because beginning with 418 the rest of the number was underlined, almost as if that was a "whole" number in and of itself. It is easier for me to remember something when I see it, as compared to hear it. Often when trying to recall information for an exam, I think back to my class notes and can see the information on the page. Presumably I have transferred this meaningless list of digits into long term memory. And I guess it is there to stay forever. I can easily recall the number now. But, what about tomorrow?, next week?, next year?...especially being that I will never need or use the number again. What cues might retrieve this information next year? I am very interested in learning more about such cues. It is extremely frustrating to learn interesting information only to seemingly lose it later. The less information is used or retrieved, the deeper embedded and more difficult it is to 'remember'. From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Thu Oct 18 01:07:33 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu) Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 20:07:33 -0400 Subject: [Psych3120] Judd Tingey - Amblyopia Message-ID: <8C9DF32041E3149-35C-2271@webmail-da06.sysops.aol.com> ----------MB_8C9DF32041E3149_35C_45E9_webmail-da06.sysops.aol.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Hey, I was wondering if anyone had any information on amblyopia.=C2=A0 This=20= is basically the scientific term for a lazy eye.=C2=A0 There's this guy at w= ork (hallelujah he doesn=E2=80=99t go to the U cause I don=E2=80=99t want hi= m to read this) who can stand directly in front of me and both of his eyes s= eem to focus on two different spots, neither of them being me.=C2=A0 It remi= nds me of a frog.=C2=A0 Anyway, you never really get the feeling that he is=20= making eye contact but we can have a conversation.=C2=A0 I imagine that this= is the same as talking to anyone who doesn=E2=80=99t make eye contact, but=20= I=E2=80=99ve never seen anything like this.=C2=A0 From my understanding, peo= ple with a lazy eye have a poor =E2=80=9Cconnection=E2=80=9D from the eye to= the brain which prevents an image from being recognized without any physica= l or structural problem to the eye. =C2=A0 I have watched him talk to other people and it always appears to be the same= ; he faces them, and both eyes stare off into space.=C2=A0 If a move around=20= or sidestep, his head moves but his eyes don=E2=80=99t. =C2=A0 I would imagine that this would be detrimental to cognition, and seeing as h= ow I am not a doctor nor do I actually know what disorder he may/may not be=20= afflicted with, I wanted to post a general question to see if anyone has eve= r seen this before.=C2=A0 Secondly, I would also like to hear your opinions=20= on the cognitive problems that may exist whatever the ailment may be.=C2=A0=20= Thanks. =C2=A0 ~Judd ________________________________________________________________________ Email and AIM finally together. You've gotta check out free AOL Mail! - http= ://mail.aol.com ----------MB_8C9DF32041E3149_35C_45E9_webmail-da06.sysops.aol.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset="utf-8"
Hey, I was wondering if anyone had any inform= ation on amblyopia.  This is basically the scientific term for a lazy e= ye.  There's this guy at work (hallelujah he doesn=E2=80=99t go to the=20= U cause I don=E2=80=99t want him to read this) who can stand directly in fro= nt of me and both of his eyes seem to focus on two different spots, neither=20= of them being me.  It reminds=20= me of a frog.  Anyway, you nev= er really get the feeling that he is making eye contact but we can have a co= nversation.  I imagine that th= is is the same as talking to anyone who doesn=E2=80=99t make eye contact, bu= t I=E2=80=99ve never seen anything like this.  From my understanding, people with a lazy eye have a poor=20= =E2=80=9Cconnection=E2=80=9D from the eye to the brain which prevents an ima= ge from being recognized without any physical or structural problem to the e= ye.
 
I have watched him talk to other people and i= t always appears to be the same; he faces them, and both eyes stare off into= space.  If a move around or s= idestep, his head moves but his eyes don=E2=80=99t.
 
I would imagine that this would be detrimenta= l to cognition, and seeing as how I am not a doctor nor do I actually know w= hat disorder he may/may not be afflicted with, I wanted to post a general qu= estion to see if anyone has ever seen this before.  Secondly, I would also like to hear your opinions on t= he cognitive problems that may exist whatever the ailment may be.  Thanks.
 
~Judd
 
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----------MB_8C9DF32041E3149_35C_45E9_webmail-da06.sysops.aol.com-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Thu Oct 18 01:18:41 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Thomas Blakemore) Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 18:18:41 -0600 (GMT-06:00) Subject: [Psych3120] Slips and Mode Errors Message-ID: <22598006.1192666721999.JavaMail.root@elwamui-hybrid.atl.sa.earthlink.net> According to Reason's Classification of Human Error, I had a little slip the other day, one that I'll probably repeat. As I'm sure most people do, I have many routines that I go through in a day. One routine is my getting-out-of-the-car routine. It's pretty straight forward and boring: stop car, put car in park, skip back to the start of the song I'm listening to as I turn off the car, remove my keys and put them in my pocket, take the face off of my stereo, grab my phone and back pack, lock and close the door. Generally, all this takes under thirty seconds, though it can take a little longer when I'm tired. Well, the other day, I was going through this routine and nearing the end (grabbing my phone and back pack) when I realized that I hadn't put my car in park. Little slip that could have serious consequences. And this isn't the first time that I've made this slip, and it probably won't be the last time. Let's just hope that I don't hit anything. I also had a mode error the other day while performing this same routine. I was going through the routine while thinking about how stupid I was for making that slip the other day when I got to the part in my routine where I skip back to the beginning of the song. When I did that part, I realized that I was listening to radio. Luckily I didn't hit anything. From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Thu Oct 18 02:57:58 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (David Dunn) Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 18:57:58 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Psych3120] Multi-store model Message-ID: <808899.80379.qm@web50608.mail.re2.yahoo.com> --0-1705669795-1192672678=:80379 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I'm going to explain my understanding of the multi-store model as it was ex= plained in class today. The images that we see, even if at a very quick gl= ance enter into the the sensory memory. Of those images only a few are rec= ognized due to the attention that we pay to them. We know that there are m= ore images but we are not able to discern what they were because of the lac= k of attention, therefore those images are quickly forgotten. The images t= hat we are able to pay attention to are then passed to the short term memor= y. If while in the short term memory we don't, or are unable to rehearse t= hem they get passed down as other images enter into this memory and within = 15 to 20 seconds they are forced from our memory. However, if we rehearse = what it is that has entered into this memory those rehearsed memories are c= ontinually placed back at the top of the "short memory stack" until they ar= e passed into the long term memory. Once in the long term memory there they will stay, even if we are unable to have the immediate recall o= f them. It will often take a certain cue to jog the memory and assist us i= n the recall.=0A =0ADavid Dunn=0A=0A_______________________________________= ___________=0ADo You Yahoo!?=0ATired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spa= m protection around =0Ahttp://mail.yahoo.com --0-1705669795-1192672678=:80379 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
I'm going to explain my understanding of the multi-sto= re model as it was explained in class today.  The images that we see, = even if at a very quick glance enter into the the sensory memory.  Of = those images only a few are recognized due to the attention that we pay to = them.  We know that there are more images but we are not able to disce= rn what they were because of the lack of attention, therefore those images = are quickly forgotten.  The images that we are able to pay attention t= o are then passed to the short term memory.  If while in the short ter= m memory we don't, or are unable to rehearse them they get passed down as o= ther images enter into this memory and within 15 to 20 seconds they are for= ced from our memory.  However, if we rehearse what it is that has entered into this memory those rehearsed memories are c= ontinually placed back at the top of the "short memory stack" until they ar= e passed into the long term memory.  Once in the long term memory ther= e they will stay, even if we are unable to have the immediate recall of the= m.  It will often take a certain cue to jog the memory and assist us i= n the recall.
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http://mail.= yahoo.com --0-1705669795-1192672678=:80379-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Thu Oct 18 05:54:12 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Todd Aylesworth) Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 22:54:12 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] short term memory loss Message-ID: ------=_Part_18299_4287397.1192683253026 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline After reading a few of some other classmates stories about memory I remembered (no joke meant there) a couple of stories. My Brother is divorced. His ex-wife had remarried and her (now ex-#2) husband had a massive seizure, afterward his short term memory was severely damaged, he could remember who she was. he could remember were he was or what he was supposed to be doing. he could remember everything before the seizure, but had a really hard time remembering anything after that day. he also became very violent, especially towards her. that is or main reason for her second divorce. I haven't heard anything else about him after they separated but I think he wandering around Arkansas. sorry dude. ------=_Part_18299_4287397.1192683253026 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline After reading a few of some other classmates stories about memory I remembered (no joke meant there) a couple of stories. My Brother is divorced. His ex-wife had remarried and her (now ex-#2) husband had a massive seizure, afterward his short term memory was severely damaged, he could remember who she was. he could remember were he was or what he was supposed to be doing. he could remember everything before the seizure, but had a really hard time  remembering anything after that day. he also became  very violent, especially towards her.  that is or main reason for her second divorce.  I haven't heard anything else about him after they separated but I think he wandering around Arkansas.  sorry dude.
------=_Part_18299_4287397.1192683253026-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Thu Oct 18 19:49:10 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Andrea Kalvesmaki) Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 11:49:10 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Psych3120] Re: Memory storage In-Reply-To: <200710181812.l9IIC4WT003424@topo.csbs.utah.edu> Message-ID: <961636.89125.qm@web38904.mail.mud.yahoo.com> I think that the concepts of this section are very important in various fields of psychology. For instance, it is the aspect of attention that allows us to take something from the input level, store it, and then use it actively again from long term memory. This has major implications with various disorders such as learning disorders, which have trouble coding memory, and externalizing disorders, such as ADHD, which have trouble with the attention aspect. I think this differentiation is difficult for people to understand, and even I myself did not get this completely until taking both this class and an abnormal psych class. It is both the attention and coding that allow memory to form, and if one or the other has impairment, your memory, and ability to store memory, suffers. From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Thu Oct 18 22:30:24 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Andrea Stark) Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:30:24 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] encoding/retrieval Message-ID: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C811CE.17E25010 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I was really interested in class yesterday when someone asked about why = we don't remember things from our childhood, especially early childhood, = as easily as things more recent when both types of memory are stored in = long term storage. It made a lot of sense that the way the memory was = encoded initially affects the ability to retrieve it. I had a infant and = child development class last year where we discussed the develpment of = language and the process we go through to learn verbal communication and = I can understand how as young children with newly developing verbal = skills, most of our memories would be encoded with some other, nonverbal = cues. These could be from our senses like sight, taste, hearing, = smelling, and feeling and any correct combination of these cues in the = right situation may bring memories, or at least partial memories, = flooding back. I have a brother just a couple of years older than me and = I've always wondered why it is that he can recall memories from our = childhood, things we were both involved with, and I have absolutely no = recall. I think now that the age difference and the fact that he would = have had better language development than me when these events occurred = must be part of the reason for this. However, we have another brother = who is older than both of us and his memory of events is more like mine = so age can't be everything. I think this brother in the middle has = better encoding and retrieval matchups so that he has easier access to = memories than we do. Or maybe he just makes it all up but since none of = the rest of us can retrieve those memories we believe him. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C811CE.17E25010 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable =0A= =0A= =0A= =0A=
I was really interested = in class yesterday when someone asked about why we don't remember things = from our childhood, especially early childhood, as easily as things more = recent when both types of memory are stored in long term storage. It = made a lot of sense that the way the memory was encoded initially = affects the ability to retrieve it. I had a infant and child development = class last year where we discussed the develpment of language and the = process we go through to learn verbal communication and I can understand = how as young children with newly developing verbal skills, most of = our memories would be encoded with some other, nonverbal cues. These = could be from our senses like sight, taste, hearing, smelling, and = feeling and any correct combination of these cues in the right situation = may bring memories, or at least partial memories, flooding back. I have = a brother just a couple of years older than me and I've always wondered = why it is that he can recall memories from our childhood, things we were = both involved with, and I have absolutely no recall. I think now that = the age difference and the fact that he would have had better language = development than me when these events occurred must be part of the = reason for this. However, we have another brother who is older than both = of us and his memory of events is more like mine so age can't be = everything. I think this brother in the middle has better encoding and = retrieval matchups so that he has easier access to memories than we do. = Or maybe he just makes it all up but since none of the rest of us can = retrieve those memories we believe him.
------_=_NextPart_001_01C811CE.17E25010-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Thu Oct 18 23:02:55 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Natalie Peatmoss) Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:02:55 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Psych3120] Natalie Peatross Message-ID: <848378.85531.qm@web51509.mail.re2.yahoo.com> --0-20887948-1192744975=:85531 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I think it is interesting memory can be so flexible and that memory isn't something set or stable. I thought once I experienced something or learned something that it would stay in my mind the way it happened. I remember arguing with a friend about something that we did when we were 14 and I was adamant about what I thought happened. We had to pull out her journal from when she was 14 so she could prove to me that my memory was flawed. I was completely shocked. I remembered everything so vividly. I swore I had and remembered everything right..but I didn't and she did not remember it accurately either. I took a brain and behavior class and the teacher told a story of how when he was in college he took a class and right in the middle of class a man ran into the room and was yelling and making quite the scene and then ran out. The class was then asked to report on what the man was wearing. The teacher then had the man return. The description of the man was wrong. No one remembered correctly. My teacher said he was amazed at how flawed everyones ( including his) description was when the act they had to recall was almost immediate. It kind of makes me wonder how much of my memories are correct and how many are flawed. It makes me want to write things down so I can look back and see things for how they really are. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com --0-20887948-1192744975=:85531 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
I think it is interesting memory can be so flexible and that memory isn't something set or stable.  I thought once I experienced something or learned something that it would stay in my mind the way it happened. I remember arguing with a friend about something that we did when we were 14 and I was adamant about what I thought happened. We had to pull out her journal from when she was 14 so she could prove to me that my memory was flawed. I was completely shocked. I remembered everything so vividly. I swore I had and remembered everything right..but I didn't and she did not remember it accurately either.
I took a brain and behavior class and the teacher told a story of how when he was in college he took a class and right in the middle of class a man ran into the room and was yelling and making quite the scene and then ran out.  The class was then asked to report on what the man was wearing.  The teacher then had the man return.  The description of the man was wrong. No one remembered correctly.  My teacher said he was amazed at how flawed everyones ( including his) description was when the act they had to recall was almost immediate. 
It kind of makes me wonder how much of my memories are correct and how many are flawed. It makes me want to write things down so I can look back and see things for how they really are.

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  On Monday and Wednesday Dr. Strayer talked about short-term memory and its limited capacity of 7, +or- 2 items. On Tuesday I participated in some differetn research opportunities and they did a lot of experiments with short-term memory and as hard as I tried I could only remember about 5 or 6 items. Which means that I am on the lowwer end of the memory capasity. I also did the driving simulation where I was trying to do math problems over the phone, memorize words and drive at the same time. My capacity then droped from 5-6 to 3-4 items. The more activities I participated in at a since time, the lower my capacity to remember. Like what Strayer said about dual tasking and attention, you can do pay attention to one task or another but together you will not have the same attention like when doing one task alone.  
-Kandis Beverley
From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Fri Oct 19 00:12:14 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Megan Larsen) Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:12:14 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] Judd Tingey - Amblyopia In-Reply-To: <8C9DF32041E3149-35C-2271@webmail-da06.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: I'm not sure about what cognitive problems there may be....but I'm sure there have got to be some. My mom's boyfriend's daughter is now ten, but when she was a baby she had a lot of brain problems. They thought she would never be able to walk or talk (which she now does way too much of). Anyways, she had tons of brain surgeries as a baby, but her eyes do the same thing! They're all over the place. I laughed out loud when I read this post because I thought of her crazy little beady eyes. I wonder what part of the brain could cause the eyes to do this... >From: thenudecoconut@aol.com >Reply-To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu >To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu >Subject: [Psych3120] Judd Tingey - Amblyopia >Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 20:07:33 -0400 > > >Hey, I was wondering if anyone had any information on amblyopia.  This is >basically the scientific term for a lazy eye.  There's this guy at work >(hallelujah he doesn’t go to the U cause I don’t want him to read this) >who can stand directly in front of me and both of his eyes seem to focus on >two different spots, neither of them being me.  It reminds me of a frog.  >Anyway, you never really get the feeling that he is making eye contact but >we can have a conversation.  I imagine that this is the same as talking to >anyone who doesn’t make eye contact, but I’ve never seen anything like >this.  From my understanding, people with a lazy eye have a poor >“connection” from the eye to the brain which prevents an image from >being recognized without any physical or structural problem to the eye. > >  > >I have watched him talk to other people and it always appears to be the >same; he faces them, and both eyes stare off into space.  If a move around >or sidestep, his head moves but his eyes don’t. > >  > >I would imagine that this would be detrimental to cognition, and seeing as >how I am not a doctor nor do I actually know what disorder he may/may not >be afflicted with, I wanted to post a general question to see if anyone has >ever seen this before.  Secondly, I would also like to hear your opinions >on the cognitive problems that may exist whatever the ailment may be.  >Thanks. > >  > >~Judd > > > >________________________________________________________________________ >Email and AIM finally together. You've gotta check out free AOL Mail! - >http://mail.aol.com From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Fri Oct 19 16:52:14 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu) Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 11:52:14 -0400 Subject: [Psych3120] Heidi Williams Message-ID: <8C9E07F270F0390-F5C-9432@WEBMAIL-DF05.sysops.aol.com> ----------MB_8C9E07F270F0390_F5C_12C84_WEBMAIL-DF05.sysops.aol.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Strayer mentioned that rehersal isn't a very effective technique for memorizing information.? I guess maybe it isn't for most people but for some reason I seem to be able to reherse for a very sort period of time and have it stored for a relatively long period.? i don't have to reherse for very long either.? For most people rehersal dosen't go to long term memory very quickly and is just lost but maybe me encoding connector is short or something.? I do learn better with pictures to associate with the information and it's even better if I draw them myself.? When I go to study information I can visualize it in picture form.? If I have the information presented in multiple mediums then it is reinforced a couple of different ways in my memory.? I like to doodle and it helps me listen better but what I've found that I remember the information next to the doodles.? the doodles are completely unrelated to the information but I also remember that specific day and where I sat too when I look at the doodle.? Is that strange?? Or have other people experienced this tool?? I guess it goes along with the idea that taking a test is better in a familiar room with familiar people because you can make connections in your mind that helps you retrieve the data. ________________________________________________________________________ Email and AIM finally together. You've gotta check out free AOL Mail! - http://mail.aol.com ----------MB_8C9E07F270F0390_F5C_12C84_WEBMAIL-DF05.sysops.aol.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Strayer mentioned that rehersal isn't a very effective technique for memorizing information.  I guess maybe it isn't for most people but for some reason I seem to be able to reherse for a very sort period of time and have it stored for a relatively long period.  i don't have to reherse for very long either.  For most people rehersal dosen't go to long term memory very quickly and is just lost but maybe me encoding connector is short or something.  I do learn better with pictures to associate with the information and it's even better if I draw them myself.  When I go to study information I can visualize it in picture form.  If I have the information presented in multiple mediums then it is reinforced a couple of different ways in my memory.  I like to doodle and it helps me listen better but what I've found that I remember the information next to the doodles.  the doodles are completely unrelated to the information but I also remember that specific day and where I sat too when I look at the doodle.  Is that strange?  Or have other people experienced this tool?  I guess it goes along with the idea that taking a test is better in a familiar room with familiar people because you can make connections in your mind that helps you retrieve the data.
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----------MB_8C9E07F270F0390_F5C_12C84_WEBMAIL-DF05.sysops.aol.com-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Fri Oct 19 17:04:33 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu) Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 12:04:33 -0400 Subject: [Psych3120] Heidi Williams Message-ID: <8C9E080DFA0DE90-F5C-9508@WEBMAIL-DF05.sysops.aol.com> ----------MB_8C9E080DFA0DE90_F5C_12E30_WEBMAIL-DF05.sysops.aol.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I didn't realize this before but the way I study for tests is by combining primacy effect and recency effect as in reference to the serial position curve.? Strayer talked about this and how you rehearse the fist words is a long list of them and then your short term memory is filled and sends the rehearsed words to long term memory if you've rehearsed them enough-primacy effect.? Then the last words are still fresh in your?short term memory?because you just read them.? So when you repeat back the words you remember you say the recent ones first so you don't loose them because they haven't gone to long term and you only have 15-20 seconds?before they're lost completely?and you can say the fist ones last because they're already in long term memory.? When I study I try to memorize the information by rehearsing it.? I can memorize quite a bit- this would be?primacy.? Then right before the test I cram info and I can remember it long?enough to take the test but afterwards the?information that I crammed?doesn't stay with me.? This is my recency effect.??Once in church one of?my teachers put pictures each of the ten commandments and then explained them.? He said that now?we would never forget?the ten commandments becasue each one?of the pictures?was the number?of the commandment turned into stick figures?that was representative?of the commandment itself.? He was right, I've never forgotten them and I can still draw all of the pictures.? I know,?it's?amazing.? ________________________________________________________________________ Email and AIM finally together. You've gotta check out free AOL Mail! - http://mail.aol.com ----------MB_8C9E080DFA0DE90_F5C_12E30_WEBMAIL-DF05.sysops.aol.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii"
I didn't realize this before but the way I study for tests is by combining primacy effect and recency effect as in reference to the serial position curve.  Strayer talked about this and how you rehearse the fist words is a long list of them and then your short term memory is filled and sends the rehearsed words to long term memory if you've rehearsed them enough-primacy effect.  Then the last words are still fresh in your short term memory because you just read them.  So when you repeat back the words you remember you say the recent ones first so you don't loose them because they haven't gone to long term and you only have 15-20 seconds before they're lost completely and you can say the fist ones last because they're already in long term memory.  When I study I try to memorize the information by rehearsing it.  I can memorize quite a bit- this would be primacy.  Then right before the test I cram info and I can remember it long enough to take the test but afterwards the information that I crammed doesn't stay with me.  This is my recency effect.  Once in church one of my teachers put pictures each of the ten commandments and then explained them.  He said that now we would never forget the ten commandments becasue each one of the pictures was the number of the commandment turned into stick figures that was representative of the commandment itself.  He was right, I've never forgotten them and I can still draw all of the pictures.  I know, it's amazing. 
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----------MB_8C9E080DFA0DE90_F5C_12E30_WEBMAIL-DF05.sysops.aol.com-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Fri Oct 19 22:28:23 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (erica smith) Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:28:23 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] (no subject) Message-ID: --_d810aacf-3be4-4ebb-9ab6-64f55fc492c1_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I think these lectures on memory have been very interesting. For me smell i= s quickest trigger for my memory and brings to mind many past memories. Th= is made me wonder if this would apply to information retrieval when it came= to studying and taking a test. If a person lit an apple smelling candle a= nd had it burning while studying, then come test day, they had that same sm= ell in the room while taking the test, would they perform better? Or does s= mell just apply to past memories and not information. Does anyone have any= thoughts on this or know of any studies done on it? erica smith=20 _________________________________________________________________ Climb to the top of the charts!=A0 Play Star Shuffle:=A0 the word scramble = challenge with star power. http://club.live.com/star_shuffle.aspx?icid=3Dstarshuffle_wlmailtextlink_oc= t= --_d810aacf-3be4-4ebb-9ab6-64f55fc492c1_ Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I think these lectures on memory have been very interesting. For me smell i= s quickest trigger for my memory and brings to mind many past memories.&nbs= p; This made me wonder if this would apply to information retrieval when it= came to studying and taking a test.  If a person lit an apple smellin= g candle and had it burning while studying, then come test day, they had th= at same smell in the room while taking the test, would they perform better?= Or does smell just apply to past memories and not information.  Does = anyone have any thoughts on this or know of any studies done on it?

= erica smith

Climb to the top of the charts!=A0 Play Star Sh= uffle:=A0 the word scramble challenge with star power. Play Now! = --_d810aacf-3be4-4ebb-9ab6-64f55fc492c1_-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Fri Oct 19 23:10:13 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Melissa Davenport) Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 16:10:13 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] mnemonics Message-ID: --_813ea8aa-4c12-4e4d-b711-3751ce9a786d_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Um.... I wish that we learned the trick of mnemonics before taking the test= . After talking about it in class on Wednesday, i remember learning about i= t in high school. I know that I have used some type of mnemonics before to = the point where i will never forget the information.... ( i guess i did not= know that i was kind of using the system) When learning the different portions of the brain in high school, i remembe= red it F-POT. Sounds silly, but it has helped me to remember the regions of= the brain and the order that they are in. Frontal, Parietal, Occipital, an= d Temporary. ... Just thought I would show off some of my skill!!! It = is a fancy trick that I will be sure to use on the next test in this class = and all my tests to come! I think that it is interesting that we have to add in a whole extra steps i= n memorizing something, but we can't just memorize the actual thing we are = trying to remember....I am just glad it works. M. Davenport =20 _________________________________________________________________ Peek-a-boo FREE Tricks & Treats for You! http://www.reallivemoms.com?ocid=3DTXT_TAGHM&loc=3Dus= --_813ea8aa-4c12-4e4d-b711-3751ce9a786d_ Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Um.... I wish that we learned the trick of mnemonics before taking the test= . After talking about it in class on Wednesday, i remember learning about i= t in high school. I know that I have used some type of mnemonics before to = the point where i will never forget the information.... ( i guess i did not= know that i was kind of using the system)
When learning the different portions of the brain in high school, i remembe= red it F-POT. Sounds silly, but it has helped me to remember the regions of= the brain and the order that they are in. Frontal, Parietal, Occipital, an= d Temporary. ... Just thought I would show off some of my skill!!! &nb= sp;    It is a fancy trick that I will be sure to use on the= next test in this class and all my tests to come!
I think that it is interesting that we have to add in a whole extra steps i= n memorizing something, but we can't just memorize the actual thing we are = trying to remember....I am just glad it works.
 M. Davenport
 

Peek-a-boo FREE Tricks & Treats for You! Get '= em! = --_813ea8aa-4c12-4e4d-b711-3751ce9a786d_-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Fri Oct 19 23:10:08 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Melissa Davenport) Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 16:10:08 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] mnemonics Message-ID: --_48683a37-d801-46c4-9487-7199ac9e7b84_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Um.... I wish that we learned the trick of mnemonics before taking the test= . After talking about it in class on Wednesday, i remember learning about i= t in high school. I know that I have used some type of mnemonics before to = the point where i will never forget the information.... ( i guess i did not= know that i was kind of using the system) When learning the different portions of the brain in high school, i remembe= red it F-POT. Sounds silly, but it has helped me to remember the regions of= the brain and the order that they are in. Frontal, Parietal, Occipital, an= d Temporary. ... Just thought I would show off some of my skill!!! It = is a fancy trick that I will be sure to use on the next test in this class = and all my tests to come! I think that it is interesting that we have to add in a whole extra steps i= n memorizing something, but we can't just memorize the actual thing we are = trying to remember....I am just glad it works. M. Davenport =20 _________________________________________________________________ Climb to the top of the charts!=A0 Play Star Shuffle:=A0 the word scramble = challenge with star power. http://club.live.com/star_shuffle.aspx?icid=3Dstarshuffle_wlmailtextlink_oc= t= --_48683a37-d801-46c4-9487-7199ac9e7b84_ Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Um.... I wish that we learned the trick of mnemonics before taking the test= . After talking about it in class on Wednesday, i remember learning about i= t in high school. I know that I have used some type of mnemonics before to = the point where i will never forget the information.... ( i guess i did not= know that i was kind of using the system)
When learning the different portions of the brain in high school, i remembe= red it F-POT. Sounds silly, but it has helped me to remember the regions of= the brain and the order that they are in. Frontal, Parietal, Occipital, an= d Temporary. ... Just thought I would show off some of my skill!!! &nb= sp;    It is a fancy trick that I will be sure to use on the= next test in this class and all my tests to come!
I think that it is interesting that we have to add in a whole extra steps i= n memorizing something, but we can't just memorize the actual thing we are = trying to remember....I am just glad it works.
 M. Davenport
 

Climb to the top of the charts!=A0 Play Star Shuffle:= =A0 the word scramble challenge with star power. Play Now! = --_48683a37-d801-46c4-9487-7199ac9e7b84_-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Fri Oct 19 23:10:35 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Natalie Peatmoss) Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:10:35 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Psych3120] Natalie Peatross Message-ID: <227257.12478.qm@web51509.mail.re2.yahoo.com> --0-1679360802-1192831835=:12478 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I am guessing that attention is the same thing as time. So, the information that goes into the short term memory because of attention is just the amount of time we focus on it. Since our eyes see everything..but we don't remember everything is probably because objects we have overlooked or not focused on it. Because I would assume the more someone pays attention to something the more it will be in memory or the more time they spend on it then the more it will go into memory...just like memories go from short term to long term memory...could it be that the reason things go into long term memory is because we spend a lot of time on that particular memory? So, time and attention would be the same thing? Also..Strayer said rehearsing an idea or memory will keep it in short term memory and the more the memory is rehearsed the more it will transfer to long term memory..so it would make sense that rehearsing is a good study tool. Although it doesn't seem like it would be the best way..unless telling and retelling people or teaching other people about the study material counts as rehearsal? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com --0-1679360802-1192831835=:12478 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I am guessing that attention is the same thing as time. So, the information that goes into the short term memory because of attention is just the amount of time we focus on it.  Since our eyes see everything..but we don't remember everything is probably because objects we have overlooked or not focused on it.  Because I would assume the more someone pays attention to something the more it will be in memory or the more time they spend on it then the more it will go into memory...just like memories go from short term to long term memory...could it be that the reason things go into long term memory is because we spend a lot of time on that particular memory? So, time and attention would be the same thing? Also..Strayer said rehearsing an idea or memory will keep it in short term memory and the more the memory is rehearsed the more it will transfer to long term memory..so it would make sense that rehearsing is a good study tool. Although it doesn't seem like it would be the best way..unless telling and retelling people or teaching other people about the study material counts as rehearsal?

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http://mail.yahoo.com --0-1679360802-1192831835=:12478-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Fri Oct 19 23:39:17 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (sapna bhakta) Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 22:39:17 +0000 Subject: [Psych3120] sapna Bhakta In-Reply-To: <200710191803.l9JI2YKU017080@topo.csbs.utah.edu> References: <200710191803.l9JI2YKU017080@topo.csbs.utah.edu> Message-ID: --_b3ec5cd6-3068-43a2-89bc-66ba88b4de56_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable In class when somebody asked about not being able to remember childhood mem= ories was interesting. My cousin and I are the same age, and always she ta= lks about how she remembers certain parts of her childhood. When she talks = about them I'm always like well how do you remember that and I dont. Why i= s it that some people could remember certain aspects of their childhood and= others cant? =20 Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 12:02:34 -0600From: psych3120-request@lists.csbs.uta= h.eduSubject: Psych3120 digest, Vol 1 #1082 - 7 msgsTo: psych3120@lists.csb= s.utah.eduSend Psych3120 mailing list submissions to psych3120@lists.csbs.u= tah.edu To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://li= sts.csbs.utah.edu/listinfo.cgi/psych3120or, via email, send a message with = subject or body 'help' to psych3120-request@lists.csbs.utah.edu You can rea= ch the person managing the list at psych3120-admin@lists.csbs.utah.edu When= replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specificthan "Re: Co= ntents of Psych3120 digest..."=20 --Forwarded Message Attachment--Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 11:49:10 -0700From: = akalvesmaki@yahoo.comTo: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.eduSubject: [Psych3120] = Re: Memory storageI think that the concepts of this section are veryimporta= nt in various fields of psychology. Forinstance, it is the aspect of attent= ion that allows usto take something from the input level, store it, andthen= use it actively again from long term memory. Thishas major implications wi= th various disorders such aslearning disorders, which have trouble coding m= emory,and externalizing disorders, such as ADHD, which havetrouble with the= attention aspect. I think thisdifferentiation is difficult for people to u= nderstand,and even I myself did not get this completely untiltaking both th= is class and an abnormal psych class. Itis both the attention and coding th= at allow memory toform, and if one or the other has impairment, yourmemory,= and ability to store memory, suffers. --Forwarded Message Attachment--Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:30:24 -0600From: = a.stark@utah.eduTo: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.eduSubject: [Psych3120] encod= ing/retrieval I was really interested in class yesterday when someone asked about why we = don't remember things from our childhood, especially early childhood, as ea= sily as things more recent when both types of memory are stored in long ter= m storage. It made a lot of sense that the way the memory was encoded initi= ally affects the ability to retrieve it. I had a infant and child developme= nt class last year where we discussed the develpment of language and the pr= ocess we go through to learn verbal communication and I can understand how = as young children with newly developing verbal skills, most of our memories= would be encoded with some other, nonverbal cues. These could be from our = senses like sight, taste, hearing, smelling, and feeling and any correct co= mbination of these cues in the right situation may bring memories, or at le= ast partial memories, flooding back. I have a brother just a couple of year= s older than me and I've always wondered why it is that he can recall memor= ies from our childhood, things we were both involved with, and I have absol= utely no recall. I think now that the age difference and the fact that he w= ould have had better language development than me when these events occurre= d must be part of the reason for this. However, we have another brother who= is older than both of us and his memory of events is more like mine so age= can't be everything. I think this brother in the middle has better encodin= g and retrieval matchups so that he has easier access to memories than we d= o. Or maybe he just makes it all up but since none of the rest of us can re= trieve those memories we believe him. --Forwarded Message Attachment--Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:02:55 -0700From: = snortstd@yahoo.comTo: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.eduSubject: [Psych3120] Nat= alie Peatross I think it is interesting memory can be so flexible and that memory isn't s= omething set or stable. I thought once I experienced something or learned = something that it would stay in my mind the way it happened. I remember arg= uing with a friend about something that we did when we were 14 and I was ad= amant about what I thought happened. We had to pull out her journal from wh= en she was 14 so she could prove to me that my memory was flawed. I was com= pletely shocked. I remembered everything so vividly. I swore I had and reme= mbered everything right..but I didn't and she did not remember it accuratel= y either. I took a brain and behavior class and the teacher told a story of how when = he was in college he took a class and right in the middle of class a man ra= n into the room and was yelling and making quite the scene and then ran out= . The class was then asked to report on what the man was wearing. The tea= cher then had the man return. Thedescription of the man was wrong. No one = remembered correctly. My teacher said he was amazed at how flawed everyone= s ( including his) description was when the act they had to recall was almo= st immediate.=20 It kind of makes me wonder how much of my memories are correct and how many= are flawed. It makes me want to write things down so I can look back and s= ee things for how they really are. __________________________________________________Do You Yahoo!?Tired of sp= am? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com=20 --Forwarded Message Attachment--From: kandisbeverley@hotmail.comTo: psych31= 20@lists.csbs.utah.eduCC: psych3120-request@lists.csbs.utah.eduDate: Thu, 1= 8 Oct 2007 16:12:17 -0600Subject: [Psych3120] October 18 -Kandis Beverley On Monday and Wednesday Dr. Strayer talked about short-term memory and it= s limited capacity of 7, +or- 2 items. On Tuesday I participated in some di= fferetn research opportunities and they did a lot of experiments with short= -term memory and as hard as I tried I could only remember about 5 or 6 item= s. Which means that I am on the lowwer end of the memory capasity. I also d= id the driving simulation where I was trying to do math problems over the p= hone, memorize words and drive at the same time. My capacity then droped fr= om 5-6 to 3-4 items. The more activities I participated in at a since time,= the lower my capacity to remember. Like what Strayer said about dual taski= ng and attention, you can do pay attention to one task or another but toget= her you will not have the same attention like when doing one task alone. =20 -Kandis Beverley --Forwarded Message Attachment--From: meg_meg84@msn.comTo: psych3120@lists.= csbs.utah.eduSubject: RE: [Psych3120] Judd Tingey - AmblyopiaDate: Thu, 18 = Oct 2007 17:12:14 -0600I'm not sure about what cognitive problems there may= be....but I'm sure there have got to be some. My mom's boyfriend's daughte= r is now ten, but when she was a baby she had a lot of brain problems. They= thought she would never be able to walk or talk (which she now does way to= o much of). Anyways, she had tons of brain surgeries as a baby, but her eye= s do the same thing! They're all over the place. I laughed out loud when I = read this post because I thought of her crazy little beady eyes. I wonder w= hat part of the brain could cause the eyes to do this... >From: thenudecoc= onut@aol.com>Reply-To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu>To: psych3120@lists.cs= bs.utah.edu>Subject: [Psych3120] Judd Tingey - Amblyopia>Date: Wed, 17 Oct = 2007 20:07:33 -0400>>>Hey, I was wondering if anyone had any information on= amblyopia.=C2 This is >basically the scientific term for a lazy eye.=C2 = There's this guy at work >(hallelujah he doesn=E2=80=99t go to the U cause = I don=E2=80=99t want him to read this) >who can stand directly in front of = me and both of his eyes seem to focus on >two different spots, neither of t= hem being me.=C2 It reminds me of a frog.=C2 >Anyway, you never really ge= t the feeling that he is making eye contact but >we can have a conversation= .=C2 I imagine that this is the same as talking to >anyone who doesn=E2=80= =99t make eye contact, but I=E2=80=99ve never seen anything like >this.=C2 = From my understanding, people with a lazy eye have a poor >=E2=80=9Cconnec= tion=E2=80=9D from the eye to the brain which prevents an image from >being= recognized without any physical or structural problem to the eye.>>=C2 >>I= have watched him talk to other people and it always appears to be the >sam= e; he faces them, and both eyes stare off into space.=C2 If a move around = >or sidestep, his head moves but his eyes don=E2=80=99t.>>=C2 >>I would ima= gine that this would be detrimental to cognition, and seeing as >how I am n= ot a doctor nor do I actually know what disorder he may/may not >be afflict= ed with, I wanted to post a general question to see if anyone has >ever see= n this before.=C2 Secondly, I would also like to hear your opinions >on th= e cognitive problems that may exist whatever the ailment may be.=C2 >Thank= s.>>=C2 >>~Judd>>>>________________________________________________________= ________________>Email and AIM finally together. You've gotta check out fre= e AOL Mail! - >http://mail.aol.com=20 --Forwarded Message Attachment--To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.eduDate: Fri,= 19 Oct 2007 11:52:14 -0400From: frogedamillion@aol.comSubject: [Psych3120]= Heidi WilliamsStrayer mentioned that rehersal isn't a very effective techn= ique for memorizing information. I guess maybe it isn't for most people bu= t for some reason I seem to be able to reherse for a very sort period of ti= me and have it stored for a relatively long period. i don't have to rehers= e for very long either. For most people rehersal dosen't go to long term m= emory very quickly and is just lost but maybe me encoding connector is shor= t or something. I do learn better with pictures to associate with the info= rmation and it's even better if I draw them myself. When I go to study inf= ormation I can visualize it in picture form. If I have the information pre= sented in multiple mediums then it is reinforced a couple of different ways= in my memory. I like to doodle and it helps me listen better but what I'v= e found that I remember the information next to the doodles. the doodles a= re completely unrelated to the information but I also remember that specifi= c day and where I sat too when I look at the doodle. Is that strange? Or = have other people experienced this tool? I guess it goes along with the id= ea that taking a test is better in a familiar room with familiar people bec= ause you can make connections in your mind that helps you retrieve the data= .=20 Email and AIM finally together. You've gotta check out free AOL Mail! --Forwarded Message Attachment--To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.eduDate: Fri,= 19 Oct 2007 12:04:33 -0400From: frogedamillion@aol.comSubject: [Psych3120]= Heidi Williams I didn't realize this before but the way I study for tests is by combining = primacy effect and recency effect as in reference to the serial position cu= rve. Strayer talked about this and how you rehearse the fist words is a lo= ng list of them and then your short term memory is filled and sends the reh= earsed words to long term memory if you've rehearsed them enough-primacy ef= fect. Then the last words are still fresh in your short term memory becaus= e you just read them. So when you repeat back the words you remember you s= ay the recent ones first so you don't loose them because they haven't gone = to long term and you only have 15-20 seconds before they're lost completely= and you can say the fist ones last because they're already in long term me= mory. When I study I try to memorize the information by rehearsing it. I = can memorize quite a bit- this would be primacy. Then right before the tes= t I cram info and I can remember it long enough to take the test but afterw= ards the information that I crammed doesn't stay with me. This is my recen= cy effect. Once in church one of my teachers put pictures each of the ten = commandments and then explained them. He said that now we would never forg= et the ten commandments becasue each one of the pictures was the number of = the commandment turned into stick figures that was representative of the co= mmandment itself. He was right, I've never forgotten them and I can still = draw all of the pictures. I know, it's amazing.=20 Email and AIM finally together. You've gotta check out free AOL Mail! _________________________________________________________________ Peek-a-boo FREE Tricks & Treats for You! http://www.reallivemoms.com?ocid=3DTXT_TAGHM&loc=3Dus= --_b3ec5cd6-3068-43a2-89bc-66ba88b4de56_ Content-Type: text/html; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
In class when somebody asked about not being able to remember childhood= memories was interesting.  My cousin and I are the same age, and alwa= ys she talks about how she remembers certain parts of her childhood. When s= he talks about them I'm always like well how do you remember that and I don= t.  Why is it that some people could remember certain aspects of their= childhood and others cant?

 

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Subject: [Psych3120] Re: Memory storage

I think that the=
 concepts of this section are very
important in various fields of psycho=
logy. For
instance, it is the aspect of attention that allows us
to t=
ake something from the input level, store it, and
then use it actively a=
gain from long term memory. This
has major implications with various dis=
orders such as
learning disorders, which have trouble coding memory,
=
and externalizing disorders, such as ADHD, which have
trouble with the a=
ttention aspect. I think this
differentiation is difficult for people to=
 understand,
and even I myself did not get this completely until
taki=
ng both this class and an abnormal psych class. It
is both the attention=
 and coding that allow memory to
form, and if one or the other has impai=
rment, your
memory, and ability to store memory, suffers.
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To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.eduSubject: [Psych3120] encoding/retrieval

I was really interested in= class yesterday when someone asked about why we don't remember things from= our childhood, especially early childhood, as easily as things more recent= when both types of memory are stored in long term storage. It made a lot o= f sense that the way the memory was encoded initially affects the ability t= o retrieve it. I had a infant and child development class last year where w= e discussed the develpment of language and the process we go through to lea= rn verbal communication and I can understand how as young children wit= h newly developing verbal skills, most of our memories would be encoded wit= h some other, nonverbal cues. These could be from our senses like sight, ta= ste, hearing, smelling, and feeling and any correct combination of these cu= es in the right situation may bring memories, or at least partial memories,= flooding back. I have a brother just a couple of years older than me and I= 've always wondered why it is that he can recall memories from our childhoo= d, things we were both involved with, and I have absolutely no recall. I th= ink now that the age difference and the fact that he would have had better = language development than me when these events occurred must be part of the= reason for this. However, we have another brother who is older than both o= f us and his memory of events is more like mine so age can't be everything.= I think this brother in the middle has better encoding and retrieval match= ups so that he has easier access to memories than we do. Or maybe he just m= akes it all up but since none of the rest of us can retrieve those memories= we believe him.
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Subject: [Psych3120] Natalie Peatross

I think it is interesting memory can be so flexible and that memory is= n't something set or stable.  I thought once I experienced something o= r learned something that it would stay in my mind the way it happened. I re= member arguing with a friend about something that we did when we were 14 an= d I was adamant about what I thought happened. We had to pull out her journ= al from when she was 14 so she could prove to me that my memory was flawed.= I was completely shocked. I remembered everything so vividly. I swore I ha= d and remembered everything right..but I didn't and she did not rememb= er it accurately either.
I took a brain and behavior class and the teacher told a story of how = when he was in college he took a class and right in the middle of class a m= an ran into the room and was yelling and making quite the scene and then ra= n out.  The class was then asked to report on what the man was wearing= .  The teacher then had the man return.  The
description of th= e man was wrong. No one remembered correctly.  My teacher said he was = amazed at how flawed everyones ( including his) description was when the ac= t they had to recall was almost immediate. 
It kind of makes me wonder how much of my memories are correct and how= many are flawed. It makes me want to write things down so I can look back = and see things for how they really are.
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Subject: [Psych312= 0] October 18 -Kandis Beverley

  On Monday and Wednesday Dr. Strayer talked abo= ut short-term memory and its limited capacity of 7, +or- 2 items. On Tuesda= y I participated in some differetn research opportunities and they did a lo= t of experiments with short-term memory and as hard as I tried I could only= remember about 5 or 6 items. Which means that I am on the lowwer end of th= e memory capasity. I also did the driving simulation where I was trying to = do math problems over the phone, memorize words and drive at the same time.= My capacity then droped from 5-6 to 3-4 items. The more activities I parti= cipated in at a since time, the lower my capacity to remember. Like what St= rayer said about dual tasking and attention, you can do pay attention = to one task or another but together you will not have the same attention&nb= sp;like when doing one task alone.  

-Kandis Beverley

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Subject: RE: [Psych3120] Judd Tingey -= Amblyopia
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:12:14 -0600

I'm not sur=
e about what cognitive problems there may be....but I'm sure 
there have=
 got to be some. My mom's boyfriend's daughter is now ten, but 
when she=
 was a baby she had a lot of brain problems. They thought she would 
nev=
er be able to walk or talk (which she now does way too much of). Anyways, <=
BR>she had tons of brain surgeries as a baby, but her eyes do the same thin=
g! 
They're all over the place. I laughed out loud when I read this post=
 because 
I thought of her crazy little beady eyes. I wonder what part o=
f the brain 
could cause the eyes to do this...
 
 
>From: t=
henudecoconut@aol.com
>Reply-To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu
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;To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu
>Subject: [Psych3120] Judd Tingey =
- Amblyopia
>Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 20:07:33 -0400
>
>>Hey, I was wondering if anyone had any information on amblyopia.=C2&nb=
sp; This is 
>basically the scientific term for a lazy eye.=C2  =
There's this guy at work 
>(hallelujah he doesn=E2=80=99t go to the U=
 cause I don=E2=80=99t want him to read this) 
>who can stand directl=
y in front of me and both of his eyes seem to focus on 
>two differen=
t spots, neither of them being me.=C2  It reminds me of a frog.=C2&nbs=
p; 
>Anyway, you never really get the feeling that he is making eye c=
ontact but 
>we can have a conversation.=C2  I imagine that this=
 is the same as talking to 
>anyone who doesn=E2=80=99t make eye cont=
act, but I=E2=80=99ve never seen anything like 
>this.=C2  From =
my understanding, people with a lazy eye have a poor 
>=E2=80=9Cconne=
ction=E2=80=9D from the eye to the brain which prevents an image from 
&=
gt;being recognized without any physical or structural problem to the eye.<=
BR>>
>=C2 
>
>I have watched him talk to other pe=
ople and it always appears to be the 
>same; he faces them, and both =
eyes stare off into space.=C2  If a move around 
>or sidestep, h=
is head moves but his eyes don=E2=80=99t.
>
>=C2 
><=
BR>>I would imagine that this would be detrimental to cognition, and see=
ing as 
>how I am not a doctor nor do I actually know what disorder h=
e may/may not 
>be afflicted with, I wanted to post a general questio=
n to see if anyone has 
>ever seen this before.=C2  Secondly, I =
would also like to hear your opinions 
>on the cognitive problems tha=
t may exist whatever the ailment may be.=C2  
>Thanks.
>>=C2 
>
>~Judd
>
>
>
>_______=
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Subject: [Psych3120] Heidi Williams

Strayer mentioned that r= ehersal isn't a very effective technique for memorizing information.  = I guess maybe it isn't for most people but for some reason I seem to be abl= e to reherse for a very sort period of time and have it stored for a relati= vely long period.  i don't have to reherse for very long either. = For most people rehersal dosen't go to long term memory very quickly and i= s just lost but maybe me encoding connector is short or something.  I = do learn better with pictures to associate with the information and it's ev= en better if I draw them myself.  When I go to study information I can= visualize it in picture form.  If I have the information presented in= multiple mediums then it is reinforced a couple of different ways in my me= mory.  I like to doodle and it helps me listen better but what I've fo= und that I remember the information next to the doodles.  the doodles = are completely unrelated to the information but I also remember that specif= ic day and where I sat too when I look at the doodle.  Is that strange= ?  Or have other people experienced this tool?  I guess it goes a= long with the idea that taking a test is better in a familiar room with fam= iliar people because you can make connections in your mind that helps you r= etrieve the data.=20


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Subject: [Psych3120] Heidi Williams


I didn't realize this before but the way I study for tests is by combi= ning primacy effect and recency effect as in reference to the serial positi= on curve.  Strayer talked about this and how you rehearse the fist wor= ds is a long list of them and then your short term memory is filled and sen= ds the rehearsed words to long term memory if you've rehearsed them enough-= primacy effect.  Then the last words are still fresh in your shor= t term memory because you just read them.  So when you repeat bac= k the words you remember you say the recent ones first so you don't loose t= hem because they haven't gone to long term and you only have 15-20 seconds&= nbsp;before they're lost completely and you can say the fist ones last= because they're already in long term memory.  When I study I try to m= emorize the information by rehearsing it.  I can memorize quite a bit-= this would be primacy.  Then right before the test I cram info a= nd I can remember it long enough to take the test but afterwards the&n= bsp;information that I crammed doesn't stay with me.  This is my = recency effect.  Once in church one of my teachers put pictu= res each of the ten commandments and then explained them.  He said tha= t now we would never forget the ten commandments becasue each one=  of the pictures was the number of the commandment turned in= to stick figures that was representative of the commandment itsel= f.  He was right, I've never forgotten them and I can still draw all o= f the pictures.  I know, it's amazing. 



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Peek-a-boo FREE Tricks & Treats for You!= Get 'em! = --_b3ec5cd6-3068-43a2-89bc-66ba88b4de56_-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Sat Oct 20 00:00:59 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Dan Lauritzen) Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 17:00:59 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] Percieved memories Message-ID: ------=_Part_8981_8536870.1192834859474 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline I found the concept of changing what we remember to be very neat. I remember several things from my childhood that don't make sense. Because they are actually combinations of memories that have blending and changed over the years. I have heard the real stories, but it doesn't seem to make the false memories any less real. This whole thing got me to thinking about how powerful the mind really is. Patients who never really suffered abuse, can believe they had and have the same emotional and psychological scars as someone who really had been abused. That is what happens if the power of the mind is used for evil. In some of my other classes we have talked about the importance of perception in relation to social support and health. The more friends we believe we have the better. I have also learned that when believe something will be difficult versus something will be easy how we approach and deal with the problem/situation is drastically different. Regardless of the actual situation those who expected the worst often do the worse and suffer the most. More on friends; if we have a close strong social group, even the way we percieve pain is different. I suppose that everything is like we talked about at the beginning. There is sensation and perception. Sensation is what is really there, but perception is how we deal with the information. I bet that applies alot to memory as well. What we remember is concrete, but if we focus on the positive than we have had a good life, if the negative than life has sucked. Interesting huh? So I guess the test was an excellent opportunity to learn. -- Dan Lauritzen ------=_Part_8981_8536870.1192834859474 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline
I found the concept of changing what we remember to be very neat.  I remember several things from my childhood that don't make sense.  Because they are actually combinations of memories that have blending and changed over the years.  I have heard the real stories, but it doesn't seem to make the false memories any less real.  This whole thing got me to thinking about how powerful the mind really is.  Patients who never really suffered abuse, can believe they had and have the same emotional and psychological scars as someone who really had been abused. 
  That is what happens if the power of the mind is used for evil.  In some of my other classes we have talked about the importance of perception in relation to social support and health.  The more friends we believe we have the better.  I have also learned that when believe something will be difficult versus something will be easy how we approach and deal with the problem/situation is drastically different.  Regardless of the actual situation those who expected the worst often do the worse and suffer the most.  More on friends; if we have a close strong social group, even the way we percieve pain is different. 
 I suppose that everything is like we talked about at the beginning.  There is sensation and perception.  Sensation is what is really there, but perception is how we deal with the information.  I bet that applies alot to memory as well.  What we remember is concrete, but if we focus on the positive than we have had a good life, if the negative than life has sucked. 
 
Interesting huh?  So I guess the test was an excellent opportunity to learn.

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------=_Part_8981_8536870.1192834859474-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Sat Oct 20 18:02:12 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Diana Alleman) Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 17:02:12 +0000 Subject: [Psych3120] Diana Alleman Message-ID: TOPIC: Short Term and Long Term Memory Process Reading through the textbook I was shocked that even the simplest answer to a question has to be retrieved from the long term back to short term before recalling your opinion if you dislike or like a item, or prefer something over another. The example they have in the book was what do you like on pancakes? Before making up your mind on if you like jam or maple syrup, the question has to be transferred from the long term memory back to the short term memory to find out which spread is favored. That boggles my mind how fast the process has to occur. I have learned something new about the brain or should I say the Multi- Store Model. From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Sat Oct 20 18:39:19 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (william sheltowt) Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 11:39:19 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] memory- successful student Message-ID: <8162db450710201039g77123941h21498e3c0002062b@mail.gmail.com> ------=_Part_10327_7206916.1192901959958 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline What interested me about the last class, was developing strategies that would make my memorization of material more effective. We are all students and have to encode a great deal of information for all of our classes. I am interested in learning more things like, the fact that studying in five one hour chunks is more effective than one five hour chunk. I am also interested in learning more memorization tools like mnemonics. This seems like a section of class that could have a great deal of practical implication throughout my life, and could make me a more productive successfull student. -- be well, Bill Shelton ------=_Part_10327_7206916.1192901959958 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline What interested me about the last class, was developing strategies that would make my memorization of material more effective.  We are all students and have to encode a great deal of information for all of our classes.  I am interested in learning more things like, the fact that studying in  five one hour chunks is more effective than one five hour chunk.  I am also interested in learning more memorization tools like mnemonics.  This seems like a section of class that could have a great deal of practical implication throughout my life, and could make me a more productive successfull student.

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Bill Shelton ------=_Part_10327_7206916.1192901959958-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Sat Oct 20 19:51:36 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Dan Lauritzen) Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 12:51:36 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] Digital data storage Message-ID: ------=_Part_10767_21229458.1192906301529 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline I work with computers everyday. Over the years I have gained a good knowledge about how they function in all the gory details. What struck me most about the last two lectures was how very similar working memory is to a computer RAM and Processor. RAM can only hold small amounts of information at a time, it is stored in what is call a FIFO style or the first thing in is the first thing out. Now RAM is alway being refreshed or rehearsed so that the relevant data is maintained. For example as I type this the whole thing is kept in ram, until the autosave moves it into longterm memory. The difference is that computers can select how much information one section of attention is going to get. So I can keep this without saving while I do ten other things, this chunk of RAM is kept in a sort of redundant cycle and the other programs can't touch it. That would be really nice if our brains could do that. The bonus for us is that we can often move things between LT and ST very quickly, whereas sometimes a computer takes a while. At least relatively. Now if only AMD could make a processor that could work as well as our brains. -- Dan Lauritzen ------=_Part_10767_21229458.1192906301529 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline
I work with computers everyday.  Over the years I have gained a good knowledge about how they function in all the gory details.  What struck me most about the last two lectures was how very similar working memory is to a computer RAM and Processor.  RAM can only hold small amounts of information at a time, it is stored in what is call a FIFO style or the first thing in is the first thing out.  Now RAM is alway being refreshed or rehearsed so that the relevant data is maintained.  For example as I type this the whole thing is kept in ram, until the autosave moves it into longterm memory. 
  The difference is that computers can select how much information one section of attention is going to get.  So I can keep this without saving while I do ten other things, this chunk of RAM is kept in a sort of redundant cycle and the other programs can't touch it.  That would be really nice if our brains could do that.  The bonus for us is that we can often move things between LT and ST very quickly, whereas sometimes a computer takes a while.  At least relatively.  Now if only AMD could make a processor that could work as well as our brains.

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------=_Part_10767_21229458.1192906301529-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Sat Oct 20 23:09:22 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Megan Gertsch) Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 15:09:22 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Psych3120] False Memories Message-ID: <185703.69615.qm@web56110.mail.re3.yahoo.com> --0-540591827-1192918162=:69615 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable The idea that we can create false memories is so fascinating to me. A few o= f you have said that you have created memories from stories that you've hea= rd about your childhood. I'm sure that I have a few of those as well, but I= have kind of a weird example of false memory and I'm wondering if anything= like this has happened to anyone else. About ten years ago my sister notic= ed a scar on my leg and said it was so weird because she had a scar exactly= like it in the same place. When she tried to show me the scar, she didn't = have one and couldn't figure out why. Then she told me this story about how= she was vacuuming and she hit her shin on the edge of the coffee table. Sh= e remembered me sitting on the couch freaking out about her getting blood o= n the carpet and then running to get paper towels. Well, I have the same me= mory, but I was the one vacuuming. I got cut. She was the one freaking out = and she was the one that got the paper towels. As she told her story I imagined it happening and created a memory of it happening as she rememb= ers it. I know that my original memory was right. I have the scar to prove = it and my mom remembers it happening the way I did, but I still sometimes h= ave a hard time remembering which memory is real. I have to look at my shin= to figure it out. It's so strange!=0A=0AMegan Gertsch=0A=0A_______________= ___________________________________=0ADo You Yahoo!?=0ATired of spam? Yaho= o! Mail has the best spam protection around =0Ahttp://mail.yahoo.com --0-540591827-1192918162=:69615 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
The idea that we can create false memories is so fasci= nating to me. A few of you have said that you have created memories from st= ories that you've heard about your childhood. I'm sure that I have a few of= those as well, but I have kind of a weird example of false memory and I'm = wondering if anything like this has happened to anyone else. About ten year= s ago my sister noticed a scar on my leg and said it was so weird beca= use she had a scar exactly like it in the same place. When she tried to sho= w me the scar, she didn't have one and couldn't figure out why. Then she to= ld me this story about how she was vacuuming and she hit her shin on t= he edge of the coffee table. She remembered me sitting on the couch freakin= g out about her getting blood on the carpet and then running to get paper towels. Well, I have the same memory, but I was the one vacuu= ming. I got cut. She was the one freaking out and she was the one that got = the paper towels. As she told her story I imagined it happening and created= a memory of it happening as she remembers it. I know that my original= memory was right. I have the scar to prove it and my mom remembers it happ= ening the way I did, but I still sometimes have a hard time remembering whi= ch memory is real. I have to look at my shin to figure it out. It's so stra= nge!
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http://mail.yahoo.= com --0-540591827-1192918162=:69615-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Sun Oct 21 01:37:57 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Danielle Cysewski) Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 18:37:57 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] Illusions and Constancies References: <200710201803.l9KI2XOQ029703@topo.csbs.utah.edu> Message-ID: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0109_01C81348.55D318D0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Illusions are when the mind misinterprets the stimuli, while constancies = are the tendency for qualities of objects to stay the same, despite = changes in the viewing conditions. Illusions tells us a lot about the = ways the brain perceives things and the rules that govern normal = perception. These illusions have important implications for art, = architecture, and human factors. Constancies help us to hold our = perceptions constant based on factors of size, shape, lightness, and = color.=20 Danielle Cysewski ------=_NextPart_000_0109_01C81348.55D318D0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Illusions are when the mind misinterprets the stimuli, while = constancies=20 are the tendency for qualities of objects to stay the same, despite = changes in=20 the viewing conditions. Illusions tells us a lot about the ways the = brain=20 perceives things and the rules that govern normal perception. These = illusions=20 have important implications for art, architecture, and human factors.=20 Constancies help us to hold our perceptions constant based on factors of = size,=20 shape, lightness, and color.
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------=_NextPart_000_0109_01C81348.55D318D0-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Sun Oct 21 20:19:30 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Amanda Lindsey) Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 12:19:30 -0700 Subject: [Psych3120] RE: Psych3120 digest, Vol 1 #1085 - 3 msgs In-Reply-To: <200710211803.l9LI2Ygf012436@topo.csbs.utah.edu> References: <200710211803.l9LI2Ygf012436@topo.csbs.utah.edu> Message-ID: --_9df800b7-448c-42e2-a0f3-2fce6c1c9302_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable In response to Megan Gertsch's post on false memory, I too am fascinated wi= th this topic. When I first read her story, it was very strange to me, but= the more I thought about it, the more I could find a way to relate. Many = times in my life have I heard a story or saw something happen, and at some = time later in my life I have retold the stories as if they were actually so= mething that happened to myself and not someone else. I am not quite sure = if that makes much sense, but it is almost hard to describe. Unintentional= ly I have told someone something that I thought had happened to me, but in = actuality, it was actually just a story someone else had told me, or an inc= ident I witnessed happen to someone else. When this happens, I don't reali= ze that i am somewhat telling a lie until after I rethink the conversation = I had just had. It is odd. =20 Amanda Lindsey Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 12:02:34 -0600 From: psych3120-request@lists.csbs.utah.edu Subject: Psych3120 digest, Vol 1 #1085 - 3 msgs To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Send Psych3120 mailing list submissions to psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu =20 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 =20 You can reach the person managing the list at psych3120-admin@lists.csbs.utah.edu =20 When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Psych3120 digest..." =20 --Forwarded Message Attachment-- Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 12:51:36 -0600 From: lacertadeus@gmail.com To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Subject: [Psych3120] Digital data storage I work with computers everyday. Over the years I have gained a good knowle= dge about how they function in all the gory details. What struck me most a= bout the last two lectures was how very similar working memory is to a comp= uter RAM and Processor. RAM can only hold small amounts of information at = a time, it is stored in what is call a FIFO style or the first thing in is = the first thing out. Now RAM is alway being refreshed or rehearsed so that= the relevant data is maintained. For example as I type this the whole thi= ng is kept in ram, until the autosave moves it into longterm memory. =20 The difference is that computers can select how much information one sect= ion of attention is going to get. So I can keep this without saving while = I do ten other things, this chunk of RAM is kept in a sort of redundant cyc= le and the other programs can't touch it. That would be really nice if our= brains could do that. The bonus for us is that we can often move things b= etween LT and ST very quickly, whereas sometimes a computer takes a while. = At least relatively. Now if only AMD could make a processor that could wo= rk as well as our brains. --=20 Dan Lauritzen =20 --Forwarded Message Attachment-- Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 15:09:22 -0700 From: meganmwg@yahoo.com To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Subject: [Psych3120] False Memories The idea that we can create false memories is so fascinating to me. A few o= f you have said that you have created memories from stories that you've hea= rd about your childhood. I'm sure that I have a few of those as well, but I= have kind of a weird example of false memory and I'm wondering if anything= like this has happened to anyone else. About ten years ago my sister notic= ed a scar on my leg and said it was so weird because she had a scar exactly= like it in the same place. When she tried to show me the scar, she didn't = have one and couldn't figure out why. Then she told me this story about how= she was vacuuming and she hit her shin on the edge of the coffee table. Sh= e remembered me sitting on the couch freaking out about her getting blood o= n the carpet and then running to get paper towels. Well, I have the same memory, but I was the one vacuu= ming. I got cut. She was the one freaking out and she was the one that got = the paper towels. As she told her story I imagined it happening and created= a memory of it happening as she remembers it. I know that my original memo= ry was right. I have the scar to prove it and my mom remembers it happening= the way I did, but I still sometimes have a hard time remembering which me= mory is real. I have to look at my shin to figure it out. It's so strange! =20 Megan Gertsch __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around=20 http://mail.yahoo.com --Forwarded Message Attachment-- From: safari_girl45@hotmail.com To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 18:37:57 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] Illusions and Constancies style=3D"PADDING-LEFT: 10px; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #= 000000; BORDER-TOP-STYLE: none; PADDING-TOP: 15px; FONT-STYLE: normal; FONT= -FAMILY: Verdana; BORDER-RIGHT-STYLE: none; BORDER-LEFT-STYLE: none; TEXT-D= ECORATION: none; BORDER-BOTTOM-STYLE: none"=20 leftMargin=3D0 topMargin=3D0 acc_role=3D"text" CanvasTabStop=3D"true"=20 name=3D"Compose message area"> Illusions are when the mind misinterprets the stimuli, while constancies=20 are the tendency for qualities of objects to stay the same, despite changes= in=20 the viewing conditions. Illusions tells us a lot about the ways the brain=20 perceives things and the rules that govern normal perception. These illusio= ns=20 have important implications for art, architecture, and human factors.=20 Constancies help us to hold our perceptions constant based on factors of si= ze,=20 shape, lightness, and color.=20 Danielle Cysewski --_9df800b7-448c-42e2-a0f3-2fce6c1c9302_ Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable In response to Megan Gertsch's post on false memory, I too am fascinated wi= th this topic.  When I first read her story, it was very strange to me= , but the more I thought about it, the more I could find a way to relate.&n= bsp; Many times in my life have I heard a story or saw something happen, an= d at some time later in my life I have retold the stories as if they were a= ctually something that happened to myself and not someone else.  I am = not quite sure if that makes much sense, but it is almost hard to describe.=   Unintentionally I have told someone something that I thought had hap= pened to me, but in actuality, it was actually just a story someone else ha= d told me, or an incident I witnessed happen to someone else.  When th= is happens, I don't realize that i am somewhat telling a lie until after I = rethink the conversation I had just had.  It is odd. 

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I work= with computers everyday.  Over the years I have gained a good knowled= ge about how they function in all the gory details.  What struck me mo= st about the last two lectures was how very similar working memory is to a = computer RAM and Processor.  RAM can only hold small amounts of inform= ation at a time, it is stored in what is call a FIFO style or the first thi= ng in is the first thing out.  Now RAM is alway being refreshed or reh= earsed so that the relevant data is maintained.  For example as I type= this the whole thing is kept in ram, until the autosave moves it into long= term memory. 

  The difference is that compute= rs can select how much information one section of attention is going to get= .  So I can keep this without saving while I do ten other things, this= chunk of RAM is kept in a sort of redundant cycle and the other programs c= an't touch it.  That would be really nice if our brains could do that.=   The bonus for us is that we can often move things between LT and ST = very quickly, whereas sometimes a computer takes a while.  At least re= latively.  Now if only AMD could make a processor that could work as w= ell as our brains.


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= --_9df800b7-448c-42e2-a0f3-2fce6c1c9302_-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Mon Oct 22 03:41:00 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (MR. Robert Lee Lambert) Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 19:41:00 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Psych3120] Serial portion curves In-Reply-To: <892564.5193.qm@web51712.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <116512.15510.qm@web51702.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Serial portion curves is a fascinating way to understand short and long term memory. By having some unrelated words is sequence, and then graph what the people could and couldn't recall makes it easier to understand. The very last words they remembered the most, and then the very first words they recalled a little but in the middle is where is gets blurry. This also correlates with the Multi Store Model. Without recalling the words, most of them are pushed out of our short term memory. That's a very interesting model. __________________________________________________ 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 22 04:48:04 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Jennifer Smith) Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 20:48:04 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Psych3120] The Magical Number 4 in Short Term Memory Message-ID: <853369.30807.qm@web50810.mail.re2.yahoo.com> --0-274299877-1193024884=:30807 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I read an interesting article on how people can remember about 7 chunks in short-term memory (STM) tasks. However, that number was meant more as a rough estimate and a rhetorical device than as a real capacity limit. Others have since suggested that there is a more precise capacity limit, but that it is only 3 to 5 chunks. The present target article brings together a wide variety of data on capacity limits suggesting that the smaller capacity limit is real. Capacity limits will be useful in analyses of information processing only if the boundary conditions for observing them can be carefully described. Four basic conditions in which chunks can be identified and capacity limits can accordingly be observed are: (1) when information overload limits chunks to individual stimulus items, (2) when other steps are taken specifically to block the recoding of stimulus items into larger chunks, (3) in performance discontinuities caused by the capacity limit, and (4) in various indirect effects of the capacity limit. Under these conditions, rehearsal and long-term memory cannot be used to combine stimulus items into chunks of an unknown size; nor can storage mechanisms that are not capacity-limited, such as sensory memory, allow the capacity-limited storage mechanism to be refilled during recall. A single, central capacity limit averaging about 4 chunks is implicated along with other, non-capacity-limited sources. The pure STM capacity limit expressed in chunks is distinguished from compound STM limits obtained when the number of separately held chunks is unclear. Reasons why pure capacity estimates fall within a narrow range are discussed and a capacity limit for the focus of attention is proposed. Jennifer K. Smith __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com --0-274299877-1193024884=:30807 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
I read an interesting article on how people can remember about 7 chunks in short-term memory (STM) tasks. However, that number was meant more as a rough estimate and a rhetorical device than as a real capacity limit. Others have since suggested that there is a more precise capacity limit, but that it is only 3 to 5 chunks. The present target article brings together a wide variety of data on capacity limits suggesting that the smaller capacity limit is real. Capacity limits will be useful in analyses of information processing only if the boundary conditions for observing them can be carefully described. Four basic conditions in which chunks can be identified and capacity limits can accordingly be observed are: (1) when information overload limits chunks to individual stimulus items, (2) when other steps are taken specifically to block the recoding of stimulus items into larger chunks, (3) in performance discontinuities caused by the capacity limit, and (4) in various indirect effects of the capacity limit. Under these conditions, rehearsal and long-term memory cannot be used to combine stimulus items into chunks of an unknown size; nor can storage mechanisms that are not capacity-limited, such as sensory memory, allow the capacity-limited storage mechanism to be refilled during recall. A single, central capacity limit averaging about 4 chunks is implicated along with other, non-capacity-limited sources. The pure STM capacity limit expressed in chunks is distinguished from compound STM limits obtained when the number of separately held chunks is unclear. Reasons why pure capacity estimates fall within a narrow range are discussed and a capacity limit for the focus of attention is proposed.


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http://mail.yahoo.com --0-274299877-1193024884=:30807-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Mon Oct 22 05:45:14 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Yoshida Taihei) Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:45:14 +0900 Subject: [Psych3120] sensory memory Message-ID: --_9ffba1b2-ebdb-4b8d-b9e3-5aa97a5d146c_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-2022-jp" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit We learned about Iconic memory. Basically, it is about we see the every word at the moment, but we can't store in our memory. I found the article, it said we store everything what we experienced, (It could be what we see, I guess) but at the same time, we lost about 70-80% of those memory. Therefore, we can't store it as a memory. The article said we forget 70-80% of experience. However, if those memory we didn't forget, we memorize for a long time. For example, we don't remember everything what we have had in the high school years, we just remember some experiences. That is the one about the Sensory memory. _________________________________________________________________ $B:#OCBj$K$J$C$F$k=PMh;v$dM-L>?M$r%i%s%-%s%0$GKh=5H/I=!V(BMSN $B5$$K$J$k8@MU!W(B http://keyword.jp.msn.com/default.aspx --_9ffba1b2-ebdb-4b8d-b9e3-5aa97a5d146c_ Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-2022-jp" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

We learned about Iconic memory. Basically, it is about we see the every word at the moment, but we can't store in our memory.
I found the article, it said we store everything what we experienced, (It could be what we see, I guess) but at the same time, we lost about 70-80% of those memory.  Therefore, we can't store it as a memory.  The article said we forget 70-80% of experience.  However, if those memory we didn't forget, we memorize for a long time. For example, we don't remember everything what we have had in the high school years, we just remember some experiences.  That is the one about the Sensory memory.

$B:#OCBj$K$J$C$F$k=PMh;v$dM-L>?M$r%i%s%-%s%0$GKh=5H/I=!V(BMSN $B5$$K$J$k8@MU!W(B http://keyword.jp.msn.com/default.aspx --_9ffba1b2-ebdb-4b8d-b9e3-5aa97a5d146c_-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Mon Oct 22 05:55:36 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (horii chieko) Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:55:36 +0900 Subject: [Psych3120] memory Message-ID: --_040c682c-4aaf-4681-955a-0848940aad36_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-2022-jp" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit As it says it is easier to memorize semantically related words such as small, tiny and little than acaustically related one like shy, smell and super in the text book, I remenberd what I read one of the books for studying English vocabularies while high school days. I tried to remenber the vocabularies as a similler unit since it seemed work better, but if there was no relation among words, I tried to make stories with words as they connect in some ways as similler as picking all first letters and put them together in a way that the new words let me remenber well ( as same example as one of the students said in her post) though they often sounded silly. One thing I'm wondering is if words we learn are different from mother language, it would be different from learning of mother tounge because I don't think I learned Japanese in same way as I've been doing for some years for English. Another thing that grabed my attention was reharsal. As our professor and other students mentioned, I feel it's true that more we spread the studying( more we have time to learn something), more we remenber it as long time memory. Whennever we reharse something, our memory will be more stronger, I think even telling others about calss contents what we learned here should be good source for perparing exam. _________________________________________________________________ $B%^%$%/%m%=%U%H$N:G?7 As it says it is easier to memorize semantically related words such as small, tiny and little than acaustically related one like shy, smell and super in the text book, I remenberd what I read one of the books for studying English vocabularies while high school days. I tried to remenber the vocabularies as a similler unit since it seemed work better, but if there was no relation among words, I tried to make stories with words as they connect in some ways as similler as picking all first letters and put them together in a way that the new words let me remenber well ( as same example as one of the students said in her post) though they often sounded silly. One thing I'm wondering is if words we learn are different from mother language, it would be different from learning of mother tounge because I don't think I learned Japanese in same way as I've been doing for some years for English.
 
Another thing that grabed my attention was reharsal. As our professor and other students mentioned, I feel it's true that more we spread the studying( more we have time to learn something), more we remenber it as long time memory. Whennever we reharse something, our memory will be more stronger, I think even telling others about calss contents what we learned here should be good source for perparing exam.

$B%^%$%/%m%=%U%H$N:G?7http://promotion.msn.co.jp/ie7/ --_040c682c-4aaf-4681-955a-0848940aad36_-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Mon Oct 22 16:09:26 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Megan Larsen) Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 09:09:26 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] (no subject) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: I've heard this about taste, but i'm not sure about smell. I remembet being told by several different people before that if you chew a certain type of gum or eat a type of food or candy while you are studying and then also eat or cew it while taking the test it will trigger memory. I've also heard that for some reason peppermint is a taste that makes it less likely you will remember things....very interesting stuff. I wouldn't doubt that smell works too! >From: erica smith >Reply-To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu >To: cognitive psych blog >Subject: [Psych3120] (no subject) >Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:28:23 -0600 > > >I think these lectures on memory have been very interesting. For me smell >is quickest trigger for my memory and brings to mind many past memories. >This made me wonder if this would apply to information retrieval when it >came to studying and taking a test. If a person lit an apple smelling >candle and had it burning while studying, then come test day, they had that >same smell in the room while taking the test, would they perform better? Or >does smell just apply to past memories and not information. Does anyone >have any thoughts on this or know of any studies done on it? > >erica smith > >_________________________________________________________________ >Climb to the top of the charts! Play Star Shuffle: the word scramble >challenge with star power. >http://club.live.com/star_shuffle.aspx?icid=starshuffle_wlmailtextlink_oct From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Mon Oct 22 19:23:52 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Amanda French) Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 11:23:52 -0700 Subject: [Psych3120] RE: Psych3120 digest, Vol 1 #1086 - 6 msgs In-Reply-To: <200710221516.l9MFG3Dg024239@topo.csbs.utah.edu> References: <200710221516.l9MFG3Dg024239@topo.csbs.utah.edu> Message-ID: --_a06d0455-df72-4b6b-84d6-1615f1e0dea5_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable It was interesting in class to learn about Clive. It made me think of the m= ovie 50 First Dates. This time, however, instead of seeming interesting and= new and fun, Clive's life was difficult to imagine. As mentioned in class,= what happens when he begins to age, when his wife and children get older. = At that point, even the things he "knows" will not be there. How does life = continue? Is it a constant state of anguish? If this happened to someone th= at I loved, I can't even imagine how I would react. Would you be able to st= ay with a spouse if this happened? Would they really be the same person? I'= d argue that they would not be. Hoping that I will never have to answer the= se questions, I find it useful to at least think about. What do you all thi= nk? _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live Hotmail and Microsoft Office Outlook =96 together at last. =A0= Get it now. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HA102225181033.aspx?pid=3DCL10062= 6971033= --_a06d0455-df72-4b6b-84d6-1615f1e0dea5_ Content-Type: text/html; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 
It was interesting in class to learn about Clive. It made =
me think of the movie 50 First Dates. This time, however, instead of seemin=
g interesting and new and fun, Clive's life was difficult to imagine. As me=
ntioned in class, what happens when he begins to age, when his wife and chi=
ldren get older. At that point, even the things he "knows" will not be ther=
e. How does life continue? Is it a constant state of anguish? If this happe=
ned to someone that I loved, I can't even imagine how I would react. Would =
you be able to stay with a spouse if this happened? Would they really be th=
e same person? I'd argue that they would not be. Hoping that I will never h=
ave to answer these questions, I find it useful to at least think about. Wh=
at do you all think?

Windows Liv= e Hotmail and Microsoft Office Outlook =96 together at last. Get it now! = --_a06d0455-df72-4b6b-84d6-1615f1e0dea5_-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Tue Oct 23 04:12:01 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Jennifer Smith) Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 20:12:01 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Psych3120] Music Message-ID: <886301.47624.qm@web50807.mail.re2.yahoo.com> --0-1513349860-1193109121=:47624 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit What I have always found interesting about music is that while I may not know the lyics to a certain song, when the song is played on the radio I am able to sing along word for word. Also I have loved the fact that our senses can bring us back to recall a memory from a certain place or time, especially music. Jennifer K. Smith __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com --0-1513349860-1193109121=:47624 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit What I have always found interesting about music is that while I may not know the lyics to a certain song, when the song is played on the radio I am able to sing along word for word. Also I have loved the fact that our senses can bring us back to recall a memory from a certain place or time, especially music.

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http://mail.yahoo.com --0-1513349860-1193109121=:47624-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Tue Oct 23 04:14:01 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (MR. Robert Lee Lambert) Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 20:14:01 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Psych3120] Clive In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <4046.68937.qm@web51702.mail.re2.yahoo.com> I don't think ive seen any examples of someone with brain damage and the Hippo campus entirely damaged. What was truly amazing about clive, was when he was playing the piano and singing. He was totally at peace, and for longer than usual. I wonder how long he could play the piano and not be confused. Because when he was in his room, it seemed like maybe 2 minutes tops and then he would forget everything. Also, the context was interesting. How people who studied in Sea could recall better when tested in sea than tested on the land and vise versa. Also, sometimes when I drink too much I seem to freestyle ( rap) or sing with certain songs, I can always remember certain rap songs exactly word for word, but when i'm sober listening to them, I usually can't remember it flawlessly like when I drink. __________________________________________________ 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 23 04:17:43 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Jennifer Smith) Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 20:17:43 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Psych3120] Music as a mnemonic aid Message-ID: <90459.57694.qm@web50802.mail.re2.yahoo.com> --0-1249868688-1193109463=:57694 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit As far as using melody to cue memory for text, studies support the view that sung lyrics are better remembered than spoken lyrics, however, for melody to be a good recall cue, it needs to be either well-learned, or easily learned. Analysis suggests also, that, to be a good recall cue, the text needs to be sufficiently tied to the melody that the melody provides information about the text, such as line and syllable length (e.g., the number of notes in the melody should match the number of syllables in the text). There is evidence that melody not only provides effective recall cues, but also can facilitate initial learning to do so, the melody needs to be sufficiently simple not to distract from the text its supporting a simple background beat can also facilitate recall and learning, but rhythmical intonation (without the background beat) does not. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com --0-1249868688-1193109463=:57694 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

As far as using melody to cue memory for text, studies support the view that sung lyrics are better remembered than spoken lyrics, however, for melody to be a good recall cue, it needs to be either well-learned, or easily learned. Analysis suggests also, that, to be a good recall cue, the text needs to be sufficiently tied to the melody that the melody provides information about the text, such as line and syllable length (e.g., the number of notes in the melody should match the number of syllables in the text). There is evidence that melody not only provides effective recall cues, but also can facilitate initial learning to do so, the melody needs to be sufficiently simple not to distract from the text its supporting a simple background beat can also facilitate recall and learning, but rhythmical intonation (without the background beat) does not. 

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http://mail.yahoo.com --0-1249868688-1193109463=:57694-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Tue Oct 23 04:20:16 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Andrea Kalvesmaki) Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 20:20:16 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Psych3120] Mnemonics and context In-Reply-To: <200710221516.l9MFG3Dg024239@topo.csbs.utah.edu> Message-ID: <189762.44692.qm@web38910.mail.mud.yahoo.com> I am really enjoying this info on memory. In the work that I do, tutoring kids, we often talk about 'anchoring' information to memory by use of a touch, a sound, or a picture. The info on mnemonic strategies of remembering is along this same line of reasoning, as is the contextual remembering. For instance, a tool I use to help kids remember spelling words is to have them draw a picture that relates to the word, then we use it in a silly sentence, and then they spell it again. This is a form of mnemonic, such as the Peg word, and also adds depth of meaning, like what was described today- but I have done it for years as part of working with children, more from a knowlege that if you make it fun for them, and related to their daily lives, they will remember better. Of course, this, in and of itself is a mnemonic strategy... and brings in context as well. It is the contextual learning I am really fascinated with. It is not hard for me to imagine that a deep sea diver will remember some things better under water, and some things better on ground, specifically, what they learned there, as the contexts are so extremely different. What is interesting, however, is that in classroom situations, what we 'anchor' to our experience in this class is completely different to what we might in another. Imagine taking a test for Abnormal psych in the Fine Arts Auditorium, and our Cognitive Psych test in another room. Would we do as well? I imagine not... and these are very similar contexts- yet, still very specific! From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Tue Oct 23 06:30:32 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (David Dunn) Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 22:30:32 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Psych3120] state dependent learning Message-ID: <748355.29910.qm@web50610.mail.re2.yahoo.com> --0-1109742286-1193117432=:29910 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable The portion of today's lecture that focused on state dependent learning rei= terated what I had previously found to be the case in my own life. State d= ependent learning basically says that when you learn or acquire information= in a certain setting or state-of-mind you will have better recall, retenti= on, and less errors if you go about regurgitating that information in the s= ame or similar setting or state. This information is useful in helping to = create methods for studying for a test. =0A =0AI found this to be the case= in my own life prior to my having seen researched evidence to verify it. = I found that if the mind frame that I'm in, as well as how and where I stud= y are similar to the situation that I'll be in during a test, I typically = do better. I found this to be the case through a systematic trial and erro= r technique that I started early in my college career. Using the state dep= endent learning technique coupled with the mnemonic strategies, should assi= st in the bettering of test performance. =0A=0ADavid Dunn=0A=0A___________= _______________________________________=0ADo You Yahoo!?=0ATired of spam? = Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around =0Ahttp://mail.yahoo.com --0-1109742286-1193117432=:29910 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

The portion of today's lecture that focused on state d= ependent learning reiterated what I had previously found to be the case in = my own life.  State dependent learning basically says that when you le= arn or acquire information in a certain setting or state-of-mind you will h= ave better recall, retention, and less errors if you go about regurgitating= that information in the same or similar setting or state.  This infor= mation is useful in helping to create methods for studying for a test. = ;
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http://mail.yah= oo.com --0-1109742286-1193117432=:29910-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Tue Oct 23 20:13:51 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Megan Larsen) Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 13:13:51 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] Interesting... Message-ID: I read a story in my text for my Research methods class that had traits reminded me a little of Clive....a totally different story, but it has to do with memory. The point of the story was that in the 1980's they were doing case studies to collect evidence that trait information and autobiographical information may be seperate in the memory. Anyways, this guy K.C. was in a horrible motorcycle accident and nearly died. After months in the hospital he was found to have a type amnesia. He lost his episodic memory and could not recall any events from his life beyond thsoe that were still in his short term memory. He was however perfectly capable of using language, he had an above-average IQ score, and he could identify familiar places on maps even though he had no memory of every being there. He also went through many personality changes, but was able to describe himself and his new personality traits in great detail. There was a 73% match to the description that he gave to the one his mom gave of the "new" K.C. I just thought that this was interesting to see another example of someone who can remember so little, but also still shows knowledge of things from the past. I think it's also really interesting that he described his new self and was very aware of what type of person he now was. From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Wed Oct 24 01:47:10 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (JAMES C HINCKLE) Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 18:47:10 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] Julie Hinckle: Method of Loci Message-ID: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0026_01C815A5.1E9DBBE0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable In Monday's lecture, strategies for remembering information and storing = it in our long-term memory was discussed. One technique, the Method of = Loci, is one I use often. If I am somewhere and don't have a pen and = paper to write down a grocery list or an event that needs to go in my = planner, I will create a picture of the items or event in my mind. For = instance, if I need a couple things from the store, I will first say the = name of the item, next I picture it in my mind, and then I picture the = location of where that item is in the store. By doing these three = things, I can usually remember several items without difficulty. I have = never tested myself as to how many items I can remember at one time, but = that would be an interesting experiment. This technique only works for = me, however, if I rehearse it a few times and don't have too long of a = delay in getting to the store. I do the same thing when I need to = remember a date or an event. I picture the event in my mind first, say = the date, then associate it with a specific location. It seems to work. = Method of Loci also works for me when I have misplaced something and = can't remember where I put it, like my car keys or glasses. I first try = to remember when I last used my keys, then I mentally "stroll" backwards = in my mind recreating the scene, hopefully giving me a reminder cue as = to where I might have put them. This technique doesn't work all of the = time, but it is more useful for me than just trying to remember. ------=_NextPart_000_0026_01C815A5.1E9DBBE0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
In Monday's lecture, strategies for remembering information and = storing it=20 in our long-term memory was discussed.  One technique, the Method = of Loci,=20 is one I use often.  If I am somewhere and don't have a pen and = paper to=20 write down a grocery list or an event that needs to go in my planner, I = will=20 create a picture of the items or event in my mind.  For instance, = if I need=20 a couple things from the store, I will first say the name of the item, = next I=20 picture it in my mind, and then I picture the location of = where=20 that item is in the store.  By doing these three things, I can = usually=20 remember several items without difficulty.  I have never tested = myself as=20 to how many items I can remember at one time, but that would be an = interesting=20 experiment.  This technique only works for me, however, if I = rehearse it a=20 few times and don't have too long of a delay in getting = to the=20 store.  I do the same thing when I need to remember a date or = an=20 event.  I picture the event in my mind first, say = the date, then=20 associate it with a specific location.  It seems to work.  = Method of=20 Loci also works for me when I have misplaced something and can't = remember=20 where I put it, like my car keys or glasses.  I first try to = remember when=20 I last used my keys, then I mentally "stroll" backwards in = my mind=20 recreating the scene, hopefully giving me a reminder cue as to where I = might=20 have put them.  This technique doesn't work all of the = time, but=20 it is more useful for me than just trying to=20 remember. 
------=_NextPart_000_0026_01C815A5.1E9DBBE0-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Wed Oct 24 15:48:04 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu) Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 10:48:04 -0400 Subject: [Psych3120] Quintin Fidler: The other end of memory In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <8C9E4640463D7B2-6B8-7BCC@FWM-M38.sysops.aol.com> ----------MB_8C9E4640463D7B2_6B8_F8C2_FWM-M38.sysops.aol.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" =20 On Tuesday one of the points that Dr. Strayer touched on but didn=E2=80=99t=20= really elaborate on was that people had problems on both ends of the memory=20= spectrum. We talked about Clive and his inability to remember anything but w= e didn=E2=80=99t talk too much in depth about the other end. It reminded me=20= of a something I heard many years ago possible on a PBS program about a man=20= who had an almost perfect memory. The example they talked about was a sailbo= at. You probably don=E2=80=99t remember the first time you saw a sailboat, n= ot to mention every other one you have seen. But you know what someone is ta= lking about when the mention a sailboat. For the person they described with=20= the perfect memory if you mentioned a sailboat not only could he remember th= e first sailboat he saw but he would be inundated with memories of every sai= lboat he had ever seen. This made it very hard for him to concentrate or sta= y focused on anything and was quite debilitating. I tried to confirm account= on the internet but couldn=E2=80=99t find any information about such a man.= I did find an account of a woman called AJ who can remember every day of he= r life since 1980 very accurately. Although she doesn=E2=80=99t seem to be q= uite as debilitated as the other person I mentioned she does say that it fee= ls like she is constantly watching a movie of her entire life over and over.= =20 =20 ________________________________________________________________________ Email and AIM finally together. You've gotta check out free AOL Mail! - http= ://mail.aol.com ----------MB_8C9E4640463D7B2_6B8_F8C2_FWM-M38.sysops.aol.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset="utf-8"


On Tuesday one of the points that Dr. St= rayer touched on but didn=E2=80=99t really elaborate on was that people had=20= problems on both ends of the memory spectrum. We talked about Clive and his=20= inability to remember anything but we didn=E2=80=99t talk too much in depth=20= about the other end. It reminded me of a something I heard many years ago po= ssible on a PBS program about a man who had an almost perfect memory. The ex= ample they talked about was a sailboat. You probably don=E2=80=99t remember=20= the first time you saw a sailboat, not to mention every other one you have s= een. But you know what someone is talking about when the mention a sailboat.= For the person they described with the perfect memory if you mentioned a sa= ilboat not only could he remember the first sailboat he saw but he would be=20= inundated with memories of every sailboat he had ever seen. This made it ver= y hard for him to concentrate or stay focused on anything and was quite debi= litating. I tried to confirm account on the internet but couldn=E2=80=99t fi= nd any information about such a man. I did find an account of a woman called= AJ who can remember every day of her life since 1980 very accurately. Altho= ugh she doesn=E2=80=99t seem to be quite as debilitated as the other person=20= I mentioned she does say that it feels like she is constantly watching a mov= ie of her entire life over and over.
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----------MB_8C9E4640463D7B2_6B8_F8C2_FWM-M38.sysops.aol.com-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Wed Oct 24 20:20:13 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Amanda French) Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 12:20:13 -0700 Subject: [Psych3120] RE: Psych3120 digest, Vol 1 #1088 - 3 msgs In-Reply-To: <200710241803.l9OI2XHh024136@topo.csbs.utah.edu> References: <200710241803.l9OI2XHh024136@topo.csbs.utah.edu> Message-ID: --_f09fb127-56f0-4ea7-9719-821ccde9527f_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Like some of my other classmates have mentioned, it is interesting to see h= ow we are able to remember things, or lists of things. In the grocery store= example, we discussed having to remember a number of items and by picturin= g them in the right context, we were able to do this more efficiently. I of= ten do something similar to that, but instead of just noting the placement = of the items, I often combine them in my head for some offbeat recipe. That= way I am able to place each of the items into the concotion and know when = one is missing. It is a bit "different" but effective, especially when pict= uring each step of the recipe! You all should try it sometime! _________________________________________________________________ Boo!=A0Scare away worms, viruses and so much more! Try Windows Live OneCare= ! http://onecare.live.com/standard/en-us/purchase/trial.aspx?s_cid=3Dwl_hotma= ilnews= --_f09fb127-56f0-4ea7-9719-821ccde9527f_ Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Like some of my other classmates have mentioned, it is interest= ing to see how we are able to remember things, or lists of things. In the g= rocery store example, we discussed having to remember a number of items and= by picturing them in the right context, we were able to do this more effic= iently. I often do something similar to that, but instead of just noting th= e placement of the items, I often combine them in my head for some offbeat = recipe. That way I am able to place each of the items into the concotion an= d know when one is missing. It is a bit "different" but effective, especial= ly when picturing each step of the recipe! You all should try it sometime!<= /BLOCKQUOTE>

Boo!=A0Scare away worms, viruses and s= o much more! Try Windows Live OneCare! T= ry now! = --_f09fb127-56f0-4ea7-9719-821ccde9527f_-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Wed Oct 24 20:38:28 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Matt Hansen) Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 12:38:28 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Psych3120] Memory Message-ID: <470586.20070.qm@web51903.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Watching the front line video today in class was very interesting. It was fascinating to see how that women who had been raped was so sure it was the wrong guy. Even after seeing the new DNA evidence she was not completely convinced that the wrong man went to prison. She said she still sees the innocent man in her mind committing the crime. Eyewitness testimony is so ridiculously unreliable, I really had no idea that this was the case before this class. Jury participants really should go through some sort of training when it comes to eyewitness testimony. The Investigators really shouldn't have told that women that yeah you picked out the guy we think is guilty. It created a huge bias. __________________________________________________ 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 24 22:49:14 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Megan Larsen) Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 15:49:14 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] Memory In-Reply-To: <470586.20070.qm@web51903.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Message-ID: I completely agree. Anyone could be put on a jury yet how many people really know about this eyewitness stuff and how innaccurate it is. I agree, training is absolutely necessary. >From: Matt Hansen >Reply-To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu >To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu >Subject: [Psych3120] Memory >Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 12:38:28 -0700 (PDT) > >Watching the front line video today in class was very interesting. It was >fascinating to see how that women who had been raped was so sure it was the >wrong guy. Even after seeing the new DNA evidence she was not completely >convinced that the wrong man went to prison. She said she still sees the >innocent man in her mind committing the crime. Eyewitness testimony is so >ridiculously unreliable, I really had no idea that this was the case before >this class. Jury participants really should go through some sort of >training when it comes to eyewitness testimony. The Investigators really >shouldn't have told that women that yeah you picked out the guy we think is >guilty. It created a huge bias. > > > >__________________________________________________ >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 From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Wed Oct 24 23:49:01 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu) Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 18:49:01 -0400 Subject: [Psych3120] Judd Tingey - state dependent learning Message-ID: <8C9E4A734CA78DB-FD8-A56D@webmail-dd14.sysops.aol.com> ----------MB_8C9E4A734CA78DB_FD8_14EBF_webmail-dd14.sysops.aol.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" What would happen if a person were to learn something while drunk, and then asked to recall the same informance if they were given a large dose of anti-anxiety medication? Both alcohol and anti-anxiety medications are depressants and I imagine that if dosed correctly, the same levels of intoxication could occur.? Or if a person were blasted on cocaine and then given amphetamines? It could basically be any two drugs that fall into a similar category.? Would the person be able to recall the learned information? Or is the learning based upon the fact that the person doing ________.? So basically is the learned behavior dependent on the activity that is being done (i.e. drinking) or is it based on the context of what mental state they are in (i.e drunk)? ________________________________________________________________________ Email and AIM finally together. You've gotta check out free AOL Mail! - http://mail.aol.com ----------MB_8C9E4A734CA78DB_FD8_14EBF_webmail-dd14.sysops.aol.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii"
What would happen if a person were to learn something while drunk, and then asked to recall the same informance if they were given a large dose of anti-anxiety medication? Both alcohol and anti-anxiety medications are depressants and I imagine that if dosed correctly, the same levels of intoxication could occur.  Or if a person were blasted on cocaine and then given amphetamines? It could basically be any two drugs that fall into a similar category.  Would the person be able to recall the learned information? Or is the learning based upon the fact that the person doing ________.  So basically is the learned behavior dependent on the activity that is being done (i.e. drinking) or is it based on the context of what mental state they are in (i.e drunk)?
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----------MB_8C9E4A734CA78DB_FD8_14EBF_webmail-dd14.sysops.aol.com-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Thu Oct 25 00:36:58 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Erin Rutledge) Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 16:36:58 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Psych3120] Recoded memories Message-ID: <829727.77256.qm@web32411.mail.mud.yahoo.com> --0-602542974-1193269018=:77256 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii After watching today's movie in class, I am really amazed about how the slightest slip of the tongue by the police saying "yeah, we thought it was him" after she picked out the photo from the first lineup could unconsciously instill such deep belief in her that indeed it was him who had attacked her. Now in this day and age, the ability of DNA testing and such has opened so many new avenues that can either confirm an earlier conviction or exonerate an individual who had been wrongly accused of a crime based on eyewitness testimony alone. It really makes you wonder how many individuals, prior to DNA testing, have been convicted of crimes, incarcerated for those crimes, sentenced to death, or executed for something that they truly did not do. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com --0-602542974-1193269018=:77256 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii
After watching today's movie in class, I am really amazed about how the slightest slip of the tongue by the police saying "yeah, we thought it was him" after she picked out the photo from the first lineup could unconsciously instill such deep belief in her that indeed it was him who had attacked her.   Now in this day and age, the ability of DNA testing and such has opened so many new avenues that can either confirm an earlier conviction or exonerate an individual who had been wrongly accused of a crime based on eyewitness testimony alone.   It really makes you wonder how many individuals, prior to DNA testing, have been convicted of crimes, incarcerated for those crimes, sentenced to death, or executed for something that they truly did not do. 

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http://mail.yahoo.com --0-602542974-1193269018=:77256-- From psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Thu Oct 25 00:42:47 2007 From: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu (Joseph Boyer) Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 16:42:47 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Psych3120] Re: Psych3120 digest, Vol 1 #1088 - 3 msgs In-Reply-To: <200710241803.l9OI2XHh024136@topo.csbs.utah.edu> Message-ID: <23106.38120.qm@web56911.mail.re3.yahoo.com> --0-446477187-1193269367=:38120 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit That movie we watched today was pretty eye-opening. I have seen several documentaries like it but never in an academic state of mind. It is obviously a fairly important concept because it tooko up basically a whole lecture. My question is why don't they do more to make sure that people aren't convicted on the basis of eyewitness testimony even after so many have been proven innocent after being convicted this way? psych3120-request@lists.csbs.utah.edu wrote: 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. Interesting... (Megan Larsen) 2. Julie Hinckle: Method of Loci (JAMES C HINCKLE) 3. Quintin Fidler: The other end of memory (quinting@aol.com) From: "Megan Larsen" To: psych3120@lists.csbs.utah.edu Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 13:13:51 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] Interesting... I read a story in my text for my Research methods class that had traits reminded me a little of Clive....a totally different story, but it has to do with memory. The point of the story was that in the 1980's they were doing case studies to collect evidence that trait information and autobiographical information may be seperate in the memory. Anyways, this guy K.C. was in a horrible motorcycle accident and nearly died. After months in the hospital he was found to have a type amnesia. He lost his episodic memory and could not recall any events from his life beyond thsoe that were still in his short term memory. He was however perfectly capable of using language, he had an above-average IQ score, and he could identify familiar places on maps even though he had no memory of every being there. He also went through many personality changes, but was able to describe himself and his new personality traits in great detail. There was a 73% match to the description that he gave to the one his mom gave of the "new" K.C. I just thought that this was interesting to see another example of someone who can remember so little, but also still shows knowledge of things from the past. I think it's also really interesting that he described his new self and was very aware of what type of person he now was. From: "JAMES C HINCKLE" To: "Psych 3120-Modes \(Cog. Psych\)" Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 18:47:10 -0600 Subject: [Psych3120] Julie Hinckle: Method of Loci In Monday's lecture, strategies for remembering information and storing it in our long-term memory was discussed. One technique, the Method of Loci, is one I use often. If I am somewhere and don't have a pen and paper to write down a grocery list or an event that needs to go in my planner, I will create a picture of the items or event in my mind. For instance, if I need a couple things from the store, I will first say