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For this assignment, you need to
have found at least one scholarly journal
research article related to your topic. Remember, these journal articles
need to have been published no further back than 10 years. You need to
summarize what this article is about and what the findings are. This should
take up 2-3 paragraphs (most likely no more than one page). You will need
to cite your source where needed as you go, including if you use any quotes.
Then also include the full Reference of this source article. Your citing
within the text and your reference need to be according to APA Guidelines.
This submission needs to be submitted to the Dropbox, in ASSESSMENTS,
under Assignments; typed into a Word document, at least 12-point font
size, and DOUBLE-SPACED
THE TOPIC IS Remembering to Remember (Prospective Memory)
Remembering to Remember (Prospective Memory)
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Remembering to Remember (Prospective Memory)
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The article "Sleep Improves Prospective Remembering by Facilitating Spontaneous-Associative Retrieval Processes," written by Diekelman and others, looks into how sleep is a critical player in improving prospective remembering. Memories are derived from the past but belong to the future. Memories enable people to implement plans and actions that they intended to do at the right time. Absence of memory means that what you have done in the last one second you cannot remember. The articles also look into prospective memory, which they define as the specific ability to recall and implement an intended behavior at a certain determined point in the future. The article acknowledges the place of sleep in building memory but stresses that the role of prospective memory is still anonymous; not well understood. Prospective memory is important in our everyday life but the mechanism under the maintenance of this prospective memory over a long time interval is, to a big extent, not known. The study tries to implicate that sleep as opposed to being awake after prospective...
