THE SEVEN SINS OF MEMORY
How the Mind Forgets and Remembers
Daniel L. Schacter
Houghton Mifflin, 2001
LEARNING OBJECTIVES - This course was designed to allow the reader to:
• Become familiar with seven major memory malfunctions, which the author labels 'sins'
• Understand the underlying structural, chemical, and neurophysiological bases for them
• Become familiar with the ways in which memory is defective in all individuals and the ease with which it is manipulated
• Distinguish between 'normal' and 'abnormal' forgetting
• Learn how memories become degraded over time
• Consider malfunctions such as absent-mindedness, blocks of memories, misattribution of events, and suggestibility of memories
• Learn about different types of biases in remembering
• Learn why there is the persistence of some (usually unwanted) memories
Daniel S. Schacter is Professor of Psychology at Harvard University and chairman of the department. He is an internationally recognized expert in the psychology of remembering and theories of memory. He is the editor of THE COGNITIVE NEUROPSYCHOLOGY OF FALSE MEMORIES and the author of MEMORY DISTORTION: HOW BRAINS, MINDS AND SOCIETIES RECONSTRUCT THE PAST and of the recent much-acclaimed SEARCHING FOR MEMORY, which won the APA's William James Award.
8 CE credits; 272 pages
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