An established principle of learning and memory is called consolidation. Consolidation is a process by which over time a memory will solidify until it becomes permanent. The term itself refers to the fact that the memory is brought together (consolidated) into a clear and organized whole.
Research has actually been done to find out which drugs will promote quick, solid consolidation and which drugs tend to block consolidation.
Your Assignment:
1.) Read "Testing Your Memory" on pages 240 and 241. (You do not need to do the experiment)
2.) If these drugs were proved to be safe, what practical applications would each of these drugs have?
3.) In other words, when would you want quick consolidation, and when would you want to block consolidation? Explain in detail being as specific as possible.
Due: Sunday 3/28/10 by no later than 11:59p.m.
Monday, March 22, 2010
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2. None because it wont cause consolidation to fail and not work.
ReplyDelete3. To have better reflexes on like a car or your hand-eye cornation.
There is nothing about drugs on pages 240 and 241???
ReplyDeleteYou would want to have quick consolidation when you're trying to study for a test and remember the correct answers, especially if cramming for that test. Also you would want to block consolidation during test preparations to keep wrong answers from being stored. Also you probably aren't going to want to remember only the bad things that happen, so blocking consolidation would be helpful.
ReplyDelete1.) I'm really not sure how to answer the questions. There is nothing about drugs in the passage.
ReplyDelete3.) You would use consolidation when you need to remember something for awhile. Examples are like your birthday or social security number.
You would use block consolidation when you don't really want to remember something or forget it. Examples like a secret or a bad memory or something like that.
There is nothing in the passage about drugs, therefore making it hard to answer a question related to them. Quick consolation would be something along the lines of a telephone number or just a fact that you want to know quickly and you don’t need to remember it for a long time. Block consolidation is something you want to keep in your memory like your parent’s birthday or your social security number.
ReplyDelete2)There is nothing in the passage about drugs and you're not here so I'm not sure what you're asking so maybe we can discuss it Monday!
ReplyDelete3) You want to remember quick consolidation when you are remembering something like your social security number or a change in a date that you had permanetly put in your mind before. You also want to use it when you procrastinate and don't study until the last minute so you hurry up and retain the information. If you for some reason get a wrong answer you want to block that from your mind.
The drugs would make consolidation either quick or slow. They would make consolidation easier or much more difficult. You would want quick consolidation when studying for tests or quizzes in order to get the learned information stored in your memory and to be able to retain it. You would want to block consolidation maybe when you see a scary movie or when you see something that you don't want to remember and don't want to ever recall.
ReplyDeleteTo start off there is nothing about testing drugs in the passage so hopefully this is just your way of knowing that we read the blog!
ReplyDeleteTime that you would want quick consolidation would be when you are taking a test because you want to have all the information stored and your brain and be able to retrieve it very quickly. Another time would be when you are trying to tell a story of something that happened because you want to be able to come up with all the events quickly in your brain as you tell the story. Also, you would want to be able to be use quick consolidation when you’re at a quiz bowl meet because you want to be the first one to the buzz in to answer the question.
You would want to block consolidation when you don’t want to remember something that is bad. You want to totally void something out of your memory and not have it come to you ever again like if maybe you were in a bad car accident your don’t want to remember that every time your ride in a car.
i would want quick consolidation with things like school work that i can use the rest of my life. things i would want block things that may hurt me or other people around me and also i would block things that may block my aid in learning what i need to learn for my life skills. i would say that the drugs would help you stay a little more assertive and help you to pay more a atention and catch some things that you may not catch before.
ReplyDeleteYou would want quick consolidation when you are taking a test, or like for your job. Pilots have alot to remember and might need to remember some important stuff! You would want to block consolidation if you were raped, or if a tramitic event occurs in your life!
ReplyDeleteIf these drugs proved safe and useful then they will either promote quick consolidation and then some drugs can block consolidation.
ReplyDeleteQuick consolidation would be useful when remembering a phone number or any information you need on a test. Blocked consolidation would be useful when you get raped...and you want to forget about it.
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ReplyDeleteIf these drugs were proved to be safe, the applications these drugs would have include: drugs to promote quick, solid consolidation, and also drugs used to block consolidation. You would want quick consolidation in an instance such as if someone were to give you their number and you needed to remember it, but had no paper or pen to write it down on. An example of blocking consolidation would be right before a test, if someone were telling you the wrong answers, you would want to block that information so that you didn't remeber the wrong things on the test.
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Well the second question you answered quite nicely for me in the third question by mentioning the quick consolidation and blocking mechanisms. The uses for them would be in learning things in any situation. Whether it be college students trying to learn material quickly. It could be also used by the military to speed up the training for incoming soldiers. A blocking consolidation could be used in a variety of ways. Truama victims could be use it to forget experiences that damaged their psychy. Im also sure the that the government could use it on some people that know more information than they would like.
ReplyDeleteThe drugs would make consolidation either quick or slow. They would make consolidation easier or much more difficult.You want to remember quick consolidation when you are remembering something like your social security number or a change in a date that you had permanetly put in your mind before.
ReplyDeletesome practicalities of these drugs would be for people who have experienced traumatic experiences. then the trama could be dissipated or overall forgotten.
ReplyDeletei would want quick consolidation in times of utmost importance or emergency and would want to block consolidation if i was an individual in trama
2.The drugs would make consolidation either quicker or block it completely.
ReplyDelete3. An example where u would want quick consolidation would be when you want to remember something like in my case which way is east and west or north and south because I am any horrible at directions!!
As for the blocked consolidation an example would be maybe to help someone stop smoking. If they can forget That they do it then it could stop that habit.
Well if the drugs were safe it would include drugs to promote quick, solid consolidation, and also drugs used to block consolidation.
ReplyDeleteQuick consolidation would be useful when remembering a where you parked or information you need on a quiz/test. Blocked consolidation would help when you have a bad experience or you just don't want to remember the occurance.