Answer the questions for each scenario.
- Brian always crams for tests and stays up throughout the night before a test to study. He usually performs well in the tests and thinks he will do well in the cumulative f inal e xam as well. Explain some of the issues that Brian will face regarding his success for the cumulative e xam.
- Your Internet connection isn’t working properly, and you call customer service. You encounter an automatic menu and want to listen to all the selections to choose the option that best describes your problem. As you listen to the sixth option, you realize you cannot remember the first four options. Therefore, you have to listen to the options all over again. Explain what could have contributed to your forgetting the first four options.
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Brian always crams for tests and stays up throughout the night before a test to study. He usually performs well in the tests and thinks he will do well in the cumulative final exam as well. Explain some of the issues that Brian will face regarding his success for the cumulative exam.
Lack of sleep can poorly affect the consolidation of memory. If Brian had a healthy sleep pattern; memory consolidation could occur. Sleep is necessary for information retention to be stored in long-term memory. Cramming the information for a simple chapter test may be successful for Brian, but for a cumulative test that will likely cover more material and be more extensive; requiring him to remember material covered over a longer period (long-term). Stress and panic can also effect memory capacity, so preparing for a test more sufficiently will yield better results (Goldstein, 2015).
Your Internet connection isn’t working properly, and you call customer service. You encounter an automatic menu and want to listen to all the selections to choose the option that best describes your problem. As you listen to the sixth option, you realize you cannot remember the first four options. Therefore, you have to listen to the options all over again. Explain what could have contributed to your forgetting the first four options.
Our textbook talked about the recency effect; the most recently presented words are still in STM and therefore are easier to remember. I think this phenomenon would explain this scenario. This is mostly observed when the list is long. We tend to recall the information most recently heard. Without being able to rehearse the information first given, the information given directly after takes up the immediate memory space, overriding the first four options. (Goldstein, 2015).
Reference
Goldstein, E. B. (2015). Cognitive Psychology: Connecting Mind, Research and Everyday Experience, (4th ed.). Cengage Learning. ISBN: 9781285763880
