Memory Matters: Amnesia, Inattention and Eyewitness Memory
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2022
Pages: 171
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This textbook may serve as a handbook for anyone interested in learning about applying research on memory to our everyday lives. Professionals who conduct interviews need to be mindful of factors that affect someone’s account (memory) of what they have experienced. This book may be of particular interest to those pursuing work in counseling psychology, criminal justice, education, social work, law, medicine, or cognitive science.
Introduction
Unit 1 Uncovering Memory
Module 1 Sensory Memory
Module 2 Short-Term Memory
Module 3 Serial Position
Module 4 Depth of Processing
Module 5 Encoding Specificity
Unit 2 Cases of Amnesia and Extraordinary Memory
Module 6 Damaged Hippocampus
Module 7 Alzheimer’s Disease
Module 8 Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy
Module 9 Extraordinary Memory
Unit 3 Inattention
Module 10 Perception
Module 11 Inattentional Blindness
Module 12 Change Blindness
Module 13 Divided Attention
Unit 4 Fragility of Memory
Module 14 Forgetting Details
Module 15 False Memory
Module 16 Questions Affect Memory
Module 17 Interviewing Children
Module 18 Misidentification During Lineups
Module 19 Flashbulb Memory
Unit 5 Improve Your Memory!
Module 20 Lifestyle Factors
Module 21 Memory Strategies
Glossary
References
Hildur Halliday Schilling, PhD in Cognitive Psychology from UMass Amherst, is a professor in the Psychological Science Department at Fitchburg State University, where she teaches courses on memory, cognition, research methods and statistics.