Memory Matters: Amnesia, Inattention and Eyewitness Memory
Edition: 2
Copyright: 2025
Pages: 174
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Memory is essential for daily life, from recalling routines to remembering important events. While small lapses like forgetting names or passwords are harmless, others can have serious consequences, such as wrongful convictions caused by mistaken eyewitness testimony. Research shows memory is not a perfect recording but a reconstruction, easily influenced by missing details or outside suggestions.
Memory Matters: Amnesia, Inattention and Eyewitness Memory explores how memory works, why it fails, and how it can be protected. It examines memory disorders, extraordinary cases, the limits of attention, and how perception shapes recall. It also offers lifestyle strategies to support memory. Aimed at students and professionals in psychology, law, education, and related fields, it applies memory research to real-world contexts.
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
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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.