...Critique of a Research PSY 326 Dr. Mahaliah Bowman-Campbell 06/06/2015 The purpose of this paper is to take a closer look at the research study chosen in week one and the bibliography from week two, buy evaluating the usefulness of the sources listed and evaluating the article. The article chosen is Baldwin, V. N., Powell, T., & Lorenc, L. (2011). Factors influencing the uptake of memory compensations: A qualitative analysis. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, 21(4), 484-501. It is very important for people that have a brain injury to use memory strategies. This article conducts a research on what are some of the barriers that may be stopping people with brain injuries from using memory strategies. A qualitative analysis attempts to get a deeper understanding of a specific case, quantitative research tends to generalize (Newman 2011). So this article is qualitative because it is trying to understand why some people with head injuries hesitate to use memory strategies even though it has been proven to help people with head trauma, the article mentions it is an Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis this means that it is a psychological qualitative research, this means it is research that tries to shed light on how a person in a given context, makes sense of a phenomenon (Nicholls, 2009). The hypothesis is that if we look in to why people don’t want to use memory devices we can see that it is a complex processes that include social, emotional and practical factors...
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...lecture taught by Dr. Jane Herbert was the ‘Infant Memory Development’ discussing the traditional view on the declarative memory of infants and focusing on how age-related changes in retention and in the flexibility of memory performance. With reference to such topic and research, this essay will evaluate the both scientific and social effects of studying the development of infant memory, including: developing advanced methodology and supporting current theories; ….. This essay mainly consists of two parts: starting from introducing the research of infant...
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...article under Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2012, at http://www.substanceabusepolicy.com/content/7/1/45. The second article entitled “Treating Drug Abuse and Addiction in the Criminal Justice System: Improving Public Health and Safety” by Redonna K. Chandler, Bennett W. Fletcher and Nora D. Volkow. It was taken from a public access journal under National Institute of Health: JAMA. 2009 January 14; 301(2): 183–190. doi:10.1001/jama.2008.976. The purpose of the first article was to examine the predictive power of drug treatment variables on specific cognitive performance measures in multidrug-treated opioid dependent patients. Also, the researchers interested in finding out which of the possible significant associations turn out as hypothesized. On the other hand, the purpose of the second article was to summarize relevant neuroscientific findings and evidence-based principles of addiction treatment that, if implemented in the criminal justice system, could help improve public health and reduce criminal behaviour. For methodologies, the first research involved 104 Opioid-Dependent Patients who were treated either with buprenorphine (52 patients) or methadone (52 patients) were given attention, working memory, verbal, and visual memory tests after they had been a minimum of six months in treatment. Group-wise results were analysed by analysis of variance. Predictors of cognitive performance were examined by hierarchical regression analysis. Among the instruments...
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... Alzheimer’s Association The Alzheimer's Association International Research Grant Program funds investigations that advance our understanding of Alzheimer's disease. The first grant in organization funded its first research grant, awarding a total of about $80,000 to a handful of investigators. This propelled the Association into the largest nonprofit funder of Alzheimer’s research, awarding over $300 million to more than 2,100 scientific investigations. Alzheimer’s Association is funded donations and grants. The Association is one of the few national programs that stand on its own, and meets the BBB Wise Giving Alliance’s Standard for Charity Accountability. Alzheimer’s Association was created to continue research and provide healthcare for the aging group of 50 and above that will slowly falling victim to a disease that gradually depletes your memory. Alzheimer’s Association is a nonprofit organization that provides families support, public awareness, and community education. The mission was providing leadership and support service for individual families while supporting the advancement of research of Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer’s Association, chapter 17th, which is located in central Texas was formed in the 1980s, and is a leading volunteer health organization Alzheimer’s care support and research. The Alzheimer’s Association of chapter 17 is home-based out of Austin, Texas serving as many as 17 central Texas...
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...the Effects of Memoirs The primary purpose of my research paper is to present a cross-section of the current conversations taking place around the way memoirs affect the writers who publish them. Based on my research, it appears that the effects tend to involve emotional and psychological consequences, as well as legal troubles in some instances. The discovery of this conversation helped me to refine my research topic into the question, “Do the benefits of publishing a memoir outweigh the risks of their effects for writers?” This research explores the positive and negative effects of memoirs on their writers to determine whether or not the risks are worth the rewards. Although writing a memoir can result in lawsuits and family discord, it more often proves to be therapeutic and can be the starting point of a nonfiction writer's career. What if I told you that memoirs are incredibly important to our society, because they document the human experience in such an honest way? Although they are valuable, they can also be risky. One key issue is that a memoir’s admissions risk causing major drama for writers, including legal trouble. In addition, they can be a catalyst for burning bridges with former employees. They can also potentially destroy long-term personal relationships. In this paper, I work to discover if it is worth all the drama to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. As I began my research, I initially uncovered several negative aspects of writing...
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...“What I tell you three times is true.” (Lewis Carroll) Might this formula – or a more sophisticated version of it – actually determine what we believe to be true? Repetition is our way of learning knowledge. Repetition is drilling something to memory, reinforcing the idea in our heads. It is the key to reflexive use (use without conscious thought). Your mind “learns” by repetition and reinforcement. Repetition and its effects on what we believe to be true, play a major role in the way that we accumulate general knowledge. The formula implies that repetition is equal to truth, when really repetition is just repetition. Repetition does not make a statement the truth. But a statement, if repeated often enough, can come to be accepted as truth. This leads us to the question whether a lie can be accepted as truth. From the standpoint of logic, the number of times an incorrect fact is repeated is irrelevant. It is still false. But research has shown that a statement, even an incorrect fact, if repeated often enough, can be accepted as truth. This paper will examine several research studies, influencing variables, and examples from everyday life to identify this occurrence. In addition to this, the possible effects of repetition will be discussed as well. One of the simplest ways to show how repetition causes a statement to be accepted as truth is gossip. First, someone tells a friend a statement, which can be true or false. This friend tells another friend, who tells another...
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...their traumatic memories to their children, and how these memories consequently become an integral part of their lives and their identities. Indeed, biographies and psychoanalytical research have proven that many descendants of Holocaust survivors display psychological symptoms similar to those of their parents, despite the fact that they were born many years after the Holocaust. Although many critics insist that postmemory does not qualify as actual memory because the children have not lived through the Holocaust themselves, postmemory is indeed a legitimate form of memory. Furthermore, when compared to memory, postmemory is equally traumatizing and painful. Although postmemory is a frequent theme in many works from and on the second generation, its validity is still debated. Hirsch first defines the term as the relationship between the second generation and the memories they inherit from their parents by means of stories, images and behaviors among which they grew up. Karein Goertz, in her essay “Transgenerational Representations of the Holocaust: From Memory to ‘Post-Memory’” also describes postmemory as “a hybrid form of memory that distinguishes itself from personal memory by generational distance and from history by a deep personal connection” (33). Indeed, the prefix “post” in postmemory powerfully captures its essence as an aftermath, a temporal delay and characterizes its disconnectedness from the real sequence of events, setting it apart from the real memory of the survivors...
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...The GKSS Research Centre is located in Geesthacht near Hamburg, Germany, with a further centre in Teltow near Berlin, and is a member of the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres (HGF). With its approximately 800 employees it undertakes, in collaboration with universities and industry, research and development in the areas of coastal research, materials research, regenerative medicine, and structure research with neutrons and synchrotron radiation. The Centre for Biomaterial Development of the Institute of Polymer Research of the GKSS in Teltow offers a PhD Student Position - Code-No. 2009/PB 10 in the fields of Polymer Science and Pharmaceutical Technology for activities in a DFG funded project on new applications of shape-memory polymers. The position will be for three years. You will investigate new capabilities of shape-memory polymers as drug carriers in the field of Pharmaceutical Technology. You will be responsible for the benchwork including polymer synthesis and comprehensive polymer characterization as well as analysis of the properties such as the thermomechanical behaviour of polymer-based drug carriers. Moreover, depending on your personal interest, there will be the opportunity to extent your personal expertise and to participate in the preparation of drug carriers or the biomaterial characterization in cell studies after training by experts in the respective fields. Furthermore, you will actively participate in the publication of the results and the...
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...This study had some useful information about the binaural beats that would help me in my research project. The musical aspect of this study does not apply to me, but gave me good insight about how the brain perceives music. 5) Foster, D. S. (1990). EEG and subjective correlates of alpha frequency binaural beats stimulation combined with alpha biofeedback (Doctoral dissertation, Memphis State University). This author studied the effects of binaural beats with alpha- frequency and brain-wave production. There were 4 treatments given to the 60 participants. The first was binaural beat stimulation, second was visual brain-wave biofeedback, the third binaural beat stimulation with visual feedback, the fourth was artificial ocean sounds. The participants would complete a pre-test and then begin the actual testing by being connected to the...
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...Memory plays an important role from the early stages of life until the body starts to deteriorate. Information needs to be stored in our memory in order for it to be processed and accessible when needed. The memory portion of the brain allows us to furnish our mind with emotions, knowledge and thoughts that aids in accomplishing everyday tasks. Memory contributes to the ability of recalling events, connecting one point to another, and incorporates the world of the implicit. In other words, memory has the ability to guide the mind through effortless tasks without being consciously aware. For example, a person does not need to recall every motion in riding a bike after the process is already learned. However, memory may be affected by amnesia. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the role of memory and brain structures involved with anterograde and retrograde amnesia Amnesia is a condition that involves partial or complete loss of memory. The severity of memory loss is determined by which part of the brain was affected. Major brain structures involved with memory are the hippocampus and the temporal lobes. The hippocampus is a structure within the brain and part of the limbic system. This structure significantly contributes to memory, and may be related to processing information and the formation of recent memories. According to Kim and Fanselow (1992), damage to the hippocampus results in the impairment of recent memories, but not remote A study conducted by Kim and Fanselow...
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...Article Reaction: Effects of Social Integration on Memory Function Memory loss is a blatant feature of aging that can substantially affect a person’s quality of life, mortality, and many other factors or risks associated with it. Strategies for prevention and treatment have been pursued over time, but few have been identified as effective ones. This being said, a variety of studies have been done that show how the social environment is a key feature that helps predict cognitive outcomes among the older population. Many have found that the rate of cognitive decline is reduced with high social engagement and social networks. Likewise, it has been found that the risk of dementia is increased with limited social networks. Elderly men and women are at a greater risk of decreased memory function when they have poor social integration or disengagement and have few social ties. In the article “Effects of Social Integration on Preserving Memory Function in a Nationally Representative US Elderly Population,” the authors examine the relationship between memory loss and social integration. The objectives of the study conducted were to test whether social integration is a good tool in protecting against memory loss or other cognitive disorders, whether the effects of the test were stronger among the economically and socially disadvantaged individuals, and whether earlier memory or cognitive losses helped to explain reverse causation. Through a longitudinal study, and using...
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...Expressive Essay (Observation, Ethnography or Memoir) First Draft ENC 1101 – CR Junkins Purpose: What do I want the student to do? In this course, we will explore the two most commonly used forms of writing for college students: expressive writing and academic writing. Expressive writing captures what is important to the writer. In order to succeed, writers must understand themselves. Such writing is deeply personal. Expressive writing is designed to prepare students for writing outside academics—communicating feelings and observations, beliefs and opinions, community and individuality—all skill sets that will enable students to succeed in any discipline or career path. From a learning perspective, expressive writing is often an easier form of writing than academic. It allows students to begin working with such concepts as language, reasoning and mechanics while working with material they find worth discussing. In this assignment, I want students to carefully examine both themselves and their community. What makes their community unique? What is their place within the community? How did their unique, individual personality take shape? Project Overview: How do I want the student to do the assignment? Component One: Personal Students will choose to write on one of the following three topics: • One’s sense of place (observation) • One’s place within a community (ethnography) • One’s relationship to an event from the past (memoir) ...
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...the same event differently. They then bring in different research from a paper published by cognitive psychologists, and a series experiments conducted by psychologist Sir Frederic Charles Bartlett. And towards the end, they go back to using real life examples of faulty memories from politicians Mr. Bush and Mrs. Clinton. With the constant use of research, reports, and experiments used to support their argument they seem to be appealing to the logical reasoning of the readers...
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...Treatment of PTSD Karen Newkirk HHS 460 Research Methods in Health and Human Services (CGL1423A) Christian Funk June 23,2014 Post -Traumatic Stress Disorder is an anxiety disorder, characterized by a persistant feeling of tension and an avoidance of a traumatic event or events . These three symptoms anxiety , tension ,and avoidance are used as targets for pharmacological interventions. Pharmacological treatment is difficult by the fact that PTSD is often associated with other disorders such as depression, alcoholism , and substance abuse . It is also associated with marital ,occupational , financial and other health problems. Research suggests that SSRIs are the first line of treatment for this disorder . There have been a majority of empirical studies with SSRIs ,and although a variety of SSRIs are used ,only Zoloft and Paxil have been approved by the Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of PTSD . PTSD was first brought to public attention in relation to war veterans ,but it can result from other traumatic events such as rape , torture ,kidnapping , held captive , car accidents , or even natural disasters such as torandoes , earthquakes ,or floods . There are many causes of PTSD ,but scientists are focusing on genes that play a role in creating fear memories . Understanding how fear memories are created may help or find new interventions for reducing the anxiety ,tension...
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