Hola, soy Dora! Today I'm taking Boots to the hospital because he hit his head. I think he has retrograde amnesia, meaning he can't form new memories.

I know where the hospital is because I have a cognitive map - a mental layout of one's environment - to the hospital, but let's ask the map anyway!

We have to go to these places: River, Lake, and Hospital. Let's make mnemonic or a memory aid for these words.

Randy

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Troll: "Stop you can't cross this bridge!"

Dora: "Why not?"

Troll: "First, you must answer my riddles!"

Dora: "Honestly, do you have nothing better to do? Secluding yourself like this can cause insecure anxious attachment, which is when people crave acceptance but constantly look out for rejection."

Dora: "Or maybe you've met your belongingness needs on Maslow's hierarchy of needs (a pyramid of needs based on the fact that some needs need to be fulfilled over others), and you've reached the top of the pyramid which is self-transcendence. This could be your purpose!"

Troll: "Stop! This is what my parents did. I took over the family business."

Dora: "Oh so you've imitated their behavior in a process called modeling."

Dora: "Neurons in your frontal lobe called mirror neurons provides the basis for this observational learning. Instead of learning prosocial (positive) behavior, you've learned bad antisocial behaviors."

Troll: "Just get out of here..."

Where to next...? If you said "lake," then you've utilized your working memory, the modern definition of short-term memory that can hold around 7 bits of information.