Culture Differences and Gender Differences

Cultural Differences:

Categories (Key forming of memory)

- cultures affects - differ in their strategies
    Ex)Western - Squirrel & raccoon / Eastern - Squirrel & nut

- lenses effect - information is encoded into memory - how those memories are organized
     evidence - Western culture - focus on categories / Eastern - focus on contextual details and similarities(functional relationships)

- 1. Research - analyzed the pattern of error in memory which element of information processing differ between culture [in Turkey]
                   - Important because people have various viewpoint and stay together in business especially global
                    - Compared China, Japan, Korea, to the US, and Canada (but, many people said stack dichotomy is mistaken.)

- 2. Research - Turkish (both Asian culture and European Culture) students give a word to remember which is categorically related
                      - can semantic association error
                      - American - making more category - base error / Turk - making more association error

Gender Differences:

Episodic Memory (kind of long-term memory)


-Psychologist Agneta Herlitz & Jenny Rehman

-sex influences the ability to remember everyday events

-women: verbal episodic memory task ex) word, object, pictures, every day events
  men: visuospatial (non - linguistic) processing ex)remembering symbolize, non - linguistic

-women - favor in task ex) location of car key

-women - good remember about face, especially female

-women - good at little to no verbal processing more than men ex) recognition of familiar oder

short term memory

-differences from both brain function and brain construction variances

-1. Some hormones, such as Testosterone and Estrogen affect on brain development
      -Man have many neurons than women - make difference
        - Old - killing neurons - can explain why many neurons make difference

-Women often get higher grade in verbal test than men when

-short term memory is influenced by the 'genderness'

Alzheimer's Disease

<Psychology>

Mi Kyung Kim

September 13, 2012

Alzheimer's Disease: The Forgetting

1. Why do you think Alzheimer's disease is so much more common now that it was in the past? Explain your answer in detail.

- I think the development of technology makes Alzheimer's disease is much more common now. For example, most of people have cell phone, and it remembers all of people's information such as phone number, birthday, and where they live. So, people do not have to remember people's information. So, the memory of people is decreased. Also, some other reason is that the age. Most of people get Alzheimer's disease when they become old.

2. How is Alzheimer's an economic issue?

 - When people retired, in government, they give regular amount of money to retired people. However, if people get Alzheimer's diseases, they cannot work, so they cannot help retiring. So, the government need many money, but the retired people cannot work so they cannot earn money. If it will be lasted, the revenue of government will be decreased. 

3. Explain how Alzheimer's disease was "discovered".

- The Alzheimer's disease was discovered by German psychiatric doctor , Alzheimer. One day, he met some woman. She had problem in memory and some other physical problems. He found that her brain had become shriveled and some of thing in the brain had disappeared.

4. Explain the concept that Alzheimer's robs you of your identity.

- I cannot remember myself that some information about me such as address, name, or number. Also, I cannot remember not only the my information, but also family. If we do not remember about ourselves, we wonder who are we and who family are. Although people say about person who get the Alzheimer's disease, people cannot believe that information, so they can lose their identity.

5. Describe the process that Alzheimer's disease follows.

- The Alzheimer's disease's process is not same. Some people can be fast, and some people can be slow. At first, people can do daily life, but the memory starts decreasing. For example, people start to forget often. Second, people become to hard to do daily life, the example of that is to forget that people fire, or get lost. Third stage is that people get huge problems physically. People cannot eat food, or incontinent. So, family need to help and concentrate.