Saturday, 1 October 2016

Brief - Memory


Deliverables:
Appropriately edited photographic project (or equivalent i.e. moving image / interactive piece by negotiation with module staff)

CD containing all deliverables edited photographic project (or equivalent i.e. moving image / interactive piece by negotiation with module staff)

Research & Development Casebook – Containing:

PDF copy of your research blog, highlighting each student’s associated research findings and associated reflections. 

Your blog must evidence engagement with the weekly technical sessions and include examples of ideas development, experiments and mock-ups leading to the creation of your final submitted image / equivalent.

1 x ‘Word’ document with the actual web link to your blog.




Written proposal outlining your project aims, objectives & intent. (Word Document)

Engaged, critical analysis of your final work (Video commentary by author recorded over 1 x copy of final submission (video works) or to camera for alternative submissions in QUICKTIME format 

Written statement – critically engaged review of your project (Word Document)

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PDF download of your Blog saved as
Your first name_Your surname_AdvPPrac_Blog.PDF

Written proposal outlining your project aims, objectives & intent. (Word Document)


Written statement – critically engaged review of your project (Word Document)

Memory

"We retain ;10 percent of what we read ; 20 percent of what we hear ;30 percent of what we see 50 percent of what we hear and see;70 percent of what we say;90 percent of what we say and do"

Metclaf.T.(1997)

What is Memory ?

when I think of memory I think of the following:
  • Photographic
  • Short-term
  • Long -term
  • Dementia
  • Function
  • Collective
  • Stores information
What are memories?


when I think of memories I think of the song from Cats but according to Webster's dictionary memories are "The process of retaining and reproducing past thoughts and experiences." Webster's(2003) Webster's new universal unabridged dictionary: full revised and updated New York : Barnes and Noble Books

Types of Memory




Immediate Memory - is the ability to recall information over a few seconds ago.

there are three types of immediate memory are :
  • Iconic - Visual memory
  • Echoic - Oral memory
  • Haptic - Touch memory
Short-Term Memory - a system for temporally storing and managing information required to carry out complex cognitive tasks for example learning , reading and comprehension.

Long-Term Memory - A system for permantley storing , managing and retrieving information for later use.

there are 6 types of long term memory they are:

Episodic Memory- Allows us to draw on personal experiences and events.

Semantic Memory- stores facts and information in networks, verbal and Problem solving. There is limted storage in the semantic memory.

Delcarative Memory - Refers to memories that are consciously aware of all the time.

Procedual Memory- Knowledge of steps to do a certain taste without consiscous awareness.

Collective Memory-  Ability to remember events that are shared for example from generation to generation.

False Memory- Damage to the memory can create and fantasizes about times that have not happened.


Memory can be triggered by the five senses:

sight            Sound         Smell

         Taste          Touch






Memory Loss Vs Loss Memory  

Memory loss is not being  able to remember new events, recall one or more memories of the past.

Loss of memory is also known as amnesia

Amnesia is the partial or total of loss of memory there two types of amnesia.


Retrograde amnesia is

- An accident or tragic event can cause retrograde amnesia that blocks out or forgets anything before the accident or about the accident. this types of amnesia can come back eventually.

Anterograde amnesia is

- Anterograde amnesia causes loss of memory for long period of time and could not return.


Dementia

According to The Alzheimer's Society "The word dementia describes a set of symptoms that may include memory loss and difficulties with thinking, problem-solving or language."

(2016). what is dementia ?. Available: https://www.alzheimers.org.uk/site/scripts/documents.php?categoryID=200360. Last accessed 1st October.









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