|
Showing 1 - 13 of
13 matches in All Departments
Remember things better by understanding how your memory works. If
memory is a simple thing, why does it so often go awry? Why is
forgetting so common? How can you be certain about something you
remember-and be wrong about it? Why is it so difficult to remember
people's names? How can you study hard for an exam but not be able
to recall the material on the test? In Why We Forget, Dr. Andrew
Budson and Dr. Elizabeth Kensinger address these questions and
more, using their years of experience to guide readers into better
memory. Why We Forget shows you how to use these answers to improve
your memory. In its pages you will learn: · How memory's most
important function isn't to help you remember details from your
past. · How memory is actually a collection of different
abilities. · How you create, store, and retrieve memories of your
daily life. · Ways to control what you remember and what you
forget. · Ways to distinguish between a true and false memory. ·
Effective ways to study for an exam. · How to remember people's
names, all your passwords, 50 digits of Pi, and anything else you
wish. · How memory changes in normal aging, Alzheimer's disease,
depression, anxiety, PTSD, ADHD, and other disorders-including
COVID brain fog. · How exercise, nutrition, alcohol, cannabis,
sleep, mindfulness, and music affect your memory. Why We Forget
uses the science of memory to empower you with the knowledge you
need to remember better, whether you are a college student looking
to ace your next exam, a business professional preparing a
presentation, or a healthcare worker needing to memorize the 600+
muscles in the human body.
This bestselling textbook brings the latest developments in
psychology to students in a signature writing style that will
inspire a lifelong love of science. The authors--respected
researchers and writers of popular press titles--invite students to
join them on a tour of their favourite subject--psychological
science. The new edition takes a closer look at the role psychology
plays in our society, the rate of replication in published studies,
and how critical thinking is foundational in science and life. Each
chapter has been fully updated with research and examples to
portray a field that is constantly evolving and illuminating the
world today.
Richard Semon was a German evolutionary biologist who wrote, during the first decade of the twentieth century, two fascinating analyses of the workings of human memory which were ahead of their time. Although these have been virtually unknown to modern researchers, Semon's work has been rediscovered during the past two decades and has begun to have an influence on the field. This book not only examines Semon's contribution to memory research, but also tells the story of an extraordinary life set against the background of a turbulent period in European history and major developments in science and evolutionary theory. The resulting book is an engaging blend of biographical, historical and psychological material. Through the remarkable story of an almost forgotten German biologist, this fascinating book addresses not only key questions in memory research but also wide-ranging and substantive issues in the history and psychology of science.
Related link: Free Email Alerting
Richard Semon was a German evolutionary biologist who wrote, during
the first decade of the twentieth century, two fascinating analyses
of the workings of human memory which were ahead of their time.
Although these have been virtually unknown to modern researchers,
Semon's work has been rediscovered during the past two decades and
has begun to have an influence on the field. This book not only
examines Semon's contribution to memory research, but also tells
the story of an extraordinary life set against the background of a
turbulent period in European history and major developments in
science and evolutionary theory. The resulting book is an engaging
blend of biographical, historical and psychological material.
People sometimes remember events that never happened. These
illusory or false memories have important practical implications in
various aspects of everyday life, and also have significant
theoretical implications for cognitive and neuropsychological
models of memory. Cognitive psychologists and neuropsychologists
have long been aware of false recognition, confabulation, and
related kinds of memory distortions, but during the past several
years research on these topics has increased rapidly. In
recognition of this emerging domain of interest, this special issue
of Cognitive Neuropsychology is devoted to the cognitive
neuropsychology of false memories. Edited by Daniel L. Schacter,
the special issue features experimental and theoretical
contributions from leading cognitive psychologists,
neuropsychologists, and neurologists that explore such issues as
false recognition after frontal lobe damage, the nature of
confabulation, amnesia and false memories, physiological correlates
of memory illusions, memory distortions in normal and abnormal
aging, and computational models of true and false memories.
Hypnosis, confabulation, source amnesia, flashbulb memories,
repression--these and numerous additional topics are explored in
this timely collection of essays by eminent scholars in a range of
disciplines. This is the first book on memory distortion to unite
contributions from cognitive psychology, psychopathology,
psychiatry, neurobiology, sociology, history, and religious
studies. It brings the most relevant group of perspectives to bear
on some key contemporary issues, including the value of eyewitness
testimony and the accuracy of recovered memories of sexual abuse.
The distinguished contributors to this volume explore the full
range of biological phenomena and social ideas relevant to
understanding memory distortion, including the reliability of
children's recollections, the effects of hypnosis on memory, and
confabulation in brain-injured patients. They also look into the
activity and role of brain systems, cellular bases of memory
distortion, and the effects of emotion and trauma on the accuracy
of memory. In a section devoted to the social aspects of memory
distortion, additional essays analyze the media's part in
distorting social memory, factors influencing historical
reconstruction of the collective past, and memory distortion in
religion and other cultural constructs. Daniel Schacter launches
the collection with a history of psychological memory distortions.
Subsequent highlights include new empirical findings on memory
retrieval by a pioneer in the field, some of the foremost research
on computational models, studies of the relationship between
emotion and memory, new findings on amnesia by a premier
neuroscientist, and reflections on the power of collective
amnesiain U.S. history, the Nazi Holocaust, and ancient Egypt.
The scientific research literature on memory is enormous. Yet
until now no single book has focused on the complex
interrelationships of memory and belief. This book brings together
eminent scholars from neuroscience, cognitive psychology,
literature, and medicine to discuss such provocative issues as
"false memories," in which people can develop vivid recollections
of events that never happened; retrospective biases, in which
memories of past experiences are influenced by one's current
beliefs; and implicit memory, or the way in which nonconscious
influences of past experience shape current beliefs.
Ranging from cognitive, neurological, and pathological
perspectives on memory and belief, to relations between conscious
and nonconscious mental processes, to memory and belief in
autobiographical narratives, this book will be uniquely stimulating
to scholars in several academic disciplines.
Memory. There may be nothing more important to human beings than
our ability to enshrine experience and recall it. While
philosophers and poets have elevated memory to an almost mystical
level, psychologists have struggled to demystify it. Now, according
to Daniel Schacter, one of the most distinguished memory
researchers, the mysteries of memory are finally yielding to
dramatic, even revolutionary, scientific breakthroughs. Schacter
explains how and why it may change our understanding of everything
from false memory to Alzheimer's disease, from recovered memory to
amnesia with fascinating firsthand accounts of patients with
striking--and sometimes bizarre--amnesias resulting from brain
injury or psychological trauma.
This volume provides, for the first time, multidisciplinary
perspectives on the problem of awareness of deficits following
brain injury. Such deficits may involve perception, attention,
memory, language, or motor functions, and they can seriously
disrupt an individual's ability to function. However, some
brain-damaged patients are entirely unaware of the existence or
severity of their deficits, even when they are easily noticed by
others. In addressing these topics, contributors cover the entire
range of neuropsychological syndromes in which problems with
awareness of deficit are observed: hemiplegia and hemianopia,
amnesia, aphasia, traumatic head injury, dementia, and others. On
the clinical side, leading researchers delineate the implications
of awareness of deficits for rehabilitation and patient management,
and the role of defense mechanisms such as denial. Theoretical
discussions focus on the importance of awareness disturbances for
better understanding such cognitive processes as attention,
consciousness, and monitoring.
|
You may like...
Loot
Nadine Gordimer
Paperback
(2)
R398
R330
Discovery Miles 3 300
|