Willingham states that primary memory is limited to 2 seconds of acoustic code and four visuospatial objects. Semantic-based memory is not as limited because it utilizes a process known as “chunking.” Chunking in a process that increases the capacity of primary memory by having the secondary memory doing the translating, or encoding, using semantics. The reason that Primary memory is temporary is because interference and decay effect what can be stored in that area of the brain at one time. Any damage or factors that would prohibit the Primary Memory storing information effect that future or past memories have on the current information stored in primary memory. Decay is the biggest interference to the ability of Primary Memory and limits its capacity and the required attention to retrieve information.
Outline and Evaluate the Working Memory Model The working memory model (WM) explains why we can do two different tasks at the same time, but not two similar tasks. It replaced the idea of a unitary short term memory (STM) In the working memory model information is passed from STM to the central executive and this decides if the information is visual or auditaory. Information is then passed to the corrersponding store. The central executive is a key componant of the WM. It directs information from STM to one of the "slave systems" It also has a very limited capacity and duration so can't attend to too many things at once.
As history has shown, in software, this limitation, however ethical it may be, is close to useless in protecting the inventor. There are only so many basic inventions in software. The most notable ones are word processors, spreadsheets, databases, and the graphical user interface (GUI). This means that if you invent the first spreadsheet, the UI may be copyrighted and the particular implementation of the functions behind it can be protected. But, this does very little in protecting you against some other guys writing a spreadsheet which is more user friendly, calculates faster, and provides more functions, even though you were the inventor of the spreadsheet.
These are cues that can be represented in just two dimensions and observed with just one eye. Suggests they have the innate ability to use these cues.The findings led Gibson and Walk to come to the conclusion that depth perception is innate, which would support the nature argument- depth perception being there from birth. However there were many criticisms to the study. For example the sample size of 36 is very small meaning that the results cannot be generalised to the population. The fact that it was a lab experiment means that all the variable were
Our scale only measures to grams accurately, and could have not accurately represented the .68g of CaCO3, or we could have lost the solid precipitate in the process of the experiment. These errors could be reduced with a more accurate scale, as well as more experienced hands performing the procedure, or skilled hands, ie: we are novices at this lab, and training could produce more accurate
The research suggests that capacity of short term memory could only be enlarged by grouping items together known as chunking. By chunking information, we are more likely able to remember it whether in single or combined forms which is why it’s known as the magical number seven plus or minus two. However, the experiment could also be criticised in the sense that there could have been experimenter bias and demand characteristics. It also isn’t ecologically valid since people don’t have to memorise random letter and numbers all the time. Nevertheless,
A scientific determinist will say that any choice we make is merely an illusion of free will. We see the choices we make as free will because of the inherent complexities involved with the mind. Although we do not fully grasp the complexities of the human brain, scientific determinism states that, knowing everything there is to know about the rules of the universe we would be able to determine what a person was going to do. On the other hand, free-willists believe that humans do in fact have free will. There is some amount of causal powers attributed to the brain that cannot be simply by analyzing the electromagnetic-fields and quarks in the brain.
The knowledge that is gained through the process of immersion is inductive, because you start with nothing and gain knowledge as you go. Hypothesis testing starts with a hypothesis, and tests it; this makes it deductive because every time the hypothesis is tested it is deducting from the original hypothesis. The hypothetical-deductive method tends to be used to improve or clarify previous theories, while the inductive method creates laws based on the observation of the facts and by generalizing the observed behavior through
2. Superstitions give mankind a sense of control and helps them cope with the fact that they are in control of very little things in life. 3. Cryptids are different than mythological creatures in that Cryptids could have actually walked on this earth and there might be evidence for them. 4.
Unlike the positivist approach where it is believed that all the knowledge is based on direct observation and manipulation of natural phenomenon through experiments is possible and where everything can be reduced to numbers, the interpretivist approach is a better way to explain culture. According to Clifford Geertz concept of culture is ‘semiotic one’ and so it cannot be explained with the help of an experimental science or laws but can only be interpreted in search of its meaning (Geertz, 5). For Geertz culture is a “context” and the objective of ethnography is to describe it rather thickly describe it revealing the assumptions on which it is based. Here he attempts to understand the cultural form using an interpretivist approach. Ethnography