Child's Development Concentration

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Child's Development Concentration

Introduction

Memory is one of the most precious possessions we have. Having a good memory can solve everyday problems and difficulties, but we tends remember who we are and people who are really significant in our lives. There are a number of people having troubles in memorizing things or recall past events, and there are various factors associated with the strength of memory.

Client's Problem

In this paper I will consider the case of Soledad, an 8-year-old female having difficulties in memorizing. Her teacher reports that she is an eager learner, just not an accurate person who remembers things easily. The subject is able to learn the definitions of new words as long as she has time to employ a memory strategy. She quietly repeats the words as she listens and then tests herself on the meanings afterwards. However, within fifteen minutes, she cannot recall the words again, especially if she is involved in another activity. There does not seem to be a behavior, learning, or other childhood disorder, so her plan will address the issues found in tests.

How memories are created, stored and recalled

First of all, our memories are stored in a fragmented manner in different brain regions. Memories within the declarative memory, consisting of events that we can consciously remember are first constructed by the hippocampus and then stored in all the brain. Each memory element (sound or image) is encoded in the brain region that originally created this fragment. When a thing is learned, neural circuits are modified in the brain. The perception of a fact is generated by a group of neurons activated together. Synchronized discharge of neurons increases the tendency to discharge simultaneously (a phenomenon called potentiating), which recreate the original experience. When a discharge is triggered by an external stimulus, it happens between two neurons so that, in future, if a neuron discharge, the other will too. Memories are stored and distributed throughout the brain. Thus, if we lose a part of the experience, the rest is preserved. With this storage system, the long-term memory is virtually indestructible.

Client's Problems to Recall

Soledad, problem is associated with semantic memory. Semantic memory refers to our general archive of factual and conceptual knowledge, unrelated to any particular memory. The system is essentially declarative and explicit, but clearly distinct from episodic memory, because in fact you can lose memory of events and keep the memory of ...