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Memory Enhancement
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University of Phoenix Material

Memory Enhancement

Select and complete one of the following assignments:

Option 1: Environmental and Evolutionary Psychology Presentation

Option 2: Environmental and Evolutionary Psychology Article

Option 3: Forensic Psychology Presentation

Option 4: Forensic Psychology Article

Option 5: Health and Sports Psychology Presentation

Option 6: Health and Sports Psychology Literature Handout

Option 7: Industrial/Organizational Psychology Proposal

Option 8: Industrial/Organizational Psychology Literature Review

Option 1: Environmental and Evolutionary Psychology Presentation

Watch the “Chess Experiment,” “Future Brain,” and “Early Stages of Experimentation” videos available on the student website.

Prepare a 10- 12 slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation with speaker notes for public school teachers on the present and future state of neuroenhancers and transcranial stimulation for all groups of children: challenged, average capability, and gifted.

Address the following in your presentation:

· Describe how neuroenhancers have the potential to improve learning among the three levels of learning ability. Distinguish between natural and artificial substances.

· Provide a brief explanation of transcranial stimulation, including recent research and progress. Distinguish between transcranial magnetic and direct current forms of stimulation.

· Describe the potential for transcranial stimulation to enhance the learning among the three levels of learning ability.

Option 2: Environmental and Evolutionary Psychology Article

Watch the “Chess Experiment,” “Future Brain,” and “Early Stages of Experimentation” videos available on the student website.

Prepare a 3- to 5-page article for a professional journal for public school teachers on the present and future state of neuroenhancers and transcranial stimulation for all groups of children: challenged, average capability, and gifted.

Address the following in your article:

· Describe how neuroenhancers have the potential to improve learning among the three levels of learning ability. Distinguish between natural and artificial substances.

· Provide a brief explanation of transcranial stimulation, including recent research and progress. Distinguish between transcranial magnetic and direct current forms of stimulation.

· Describe the potential for transcranial stimulation to enhance the learning among the three levels of learning ability.

Option 3: Forensic Psychology Presentation

Among the rehabilitative services provided in many prisons is basic education, recognizing that many inmates have had difficulty obtaining and maintaining employment due to low educational achievement levels. Any tools and techniques that can be made available to adult basic education instructors in prison venues will assist in reducing illiteracy, innumeracy and other educational deficits and, hopefully, recidivism.

Watch the “How Does the Memory Work?,” “Memory and Deep Sleep,” and “Loci Method for Memory Improvement” videos available on the student website.

Prepare a 10- 12 a slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation with speaker notes for prison basic education teachers on how they might teach inmates to use the Loci Method for Memory Improvement to improve their educational progress. Include insights from segment 7 regarding the importance of sleep in the movement of information from short-term to long-term memory.

Address the following in your presentation:

· Include research information regarding the relationship between sleep and memory storage.

· Explain the Loci Method.

· Describe how the Loci Method may be applied in the adult basic education venue; for example, you might demonstrate how to commit a stanza of poetry to memory by relating items in the lines of poetry to items in a typical classroom. Another example might be to demonstrate multiplication by four by relating to the number of legs on chairs in a classroom.

Option 4: Forensic Psychology Article

Watch the “How Does the Memory Work?,” “Memory and Deep Sleep,” and “Loci Method for Memory Improvement” videos available on the student website.

Prepare a 3- to 5-page journal article for prison basic education teachers on how they might teach inmates to use the Loci Method for Memory Improvement to improve their educational progress. Include insights from segment 7 regarding the importance of sleep in the movement of information from short-term to long-term memory.

Address the following in your article:

· Include research information regarding the relationship between sleep and memory storage.

· Explain the Loci Method.

· Describe how the Loci Method may be applied in the adult basic education venue. For example, you might demonstrate how to commit a stanza of poetry to memory by relating items in the lines of poetry to items in a typical classroom. Another example might be to demonstrate multiplication by four by relating to the number of legs on chairs in a classroom.

Option 5: Health and Sports Psychology Presentation

The research described in segment 5 has implications for a possible drug which might prevent dementia. Assume you have been asked to address a local club on the future of geriatrics for 15 minutes.

Watch the “Landscape of the Brain,” “Memory Eraser,” “How Does the Memory Work?,” and “Chess Experiment” videos available on the student website.

Prepare a 10- 12 slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation with speaker notes explaining how the brain processes memories and possibilities for future remediation of geriatric dementia. Assume the club membership includes a broad spectrum of education and experience, but likely only a rudimentary knowledge of psychology.

Address the following in your presentation:

· A brief summary of the work of Isabelle Mansuy

· Speculation as to how Mansuy’s work might apply in the treatment of human geriatric dementia

Option 6: Health and Sports Psychology Literature Handout

You have been asked to address a local club on the future of geriatrics.

Watch the “Landscape of the Brain,” “Memory Eraser,” “How Does the Memory Work?,” and “Chess Experiment” videos available on the student website.

Prepare a 3- to 5-page handout to accompany the presentation, explaining how the brain processes memories and possibilities for future remediation of geriatric dementia. Assume the club membership includes a broad spectrum of education and experience, but likely only a rudimentary knowledge of psychology.

Address the following in your presentation:

· A brief summary of the work of Isabelle Mansuy

· Speculation as to how Mansuy’s work might apply in the treatment of human geriatric dementia

Option 7: Industrial/Organizational Psychology Proposal

Assume you are consulting with a high-tech computer software company. The company has a worldwide reputation for creative thinking and finding innovative solutions; however, it reports difficulties recently with a decline in creative solutions. In fact, one of its best software developers said, “sometimes I think I know so much that my brain doesn’t have room to add new ideas.”

Watch the “Landscape of the Brain,” “Too Much Knowledge?,” and “Future Brain” videos available on the student website.

Prepare a research proposal for company management on possibilities for enhancing creativity, including right-brain stimulation.

Address the following in your proposal:

· A description of Snyder and Chi’s work as examples of building narrow expertise

· How Snyder and Chi helped Simone suppress or temporarily forget previous knowledge and how that action enhanced creativity

Option 8: Industrial/Organizational Psychology Literature Review

Assume you are consulting with a very high-tech computer software company. The company has a world-wide reputation for thinking creatively and finding innovative solutions; however, it reports difficulties recently with a decline in creativity. In fact, one of its best software developers said, “sometimes I think I know so much that my brain doesn’t have room to add new ideas.”

Watch the “Landscape of the Brain,” “Too Much Knowledge?,” and “Future Brain” videos available on the student website.

Prepare a 3- to 5-page literature review for a research proposal for company management on possibilities for enhancing creativity, including right-brain stimulation.

Address the following in your proposal:

· Discussion of the work of Snyder and Chi

· Research since 1990 on both brain stimulation and psychological measures for enhancing creativity