Author: Earl W. Stevick
Publisher: Newbury House
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 198

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Author: Earl W. Stevick
Publisher: Heinle ELT
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 316

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Ch. 1. What We Remember -- Ch. 2. "Kinds" of "Memory" -- Ch. 3. Memory at Work: Basic Processes -- Ch. 4. Processes of Memory: What Happens within the Files -- Ch. 5. Managing Memory: The Mechanical Side -- Ch. 6. Memory and the Whole Person -- Ch. 7. The Meaning of Speaking -- Ch. 8. Interpersonal Meanings -- Ch. 9. The Language Class as a Small Group -- Ch. 10. Three Views of Method -- Ch. 11. Six Methods -- Ch. 12. Tradition, Diversity and Oakley's Thesis.

Author: Earl W. Stevick
Publisher: Newbury House
ISBN:
Category : Language and languages
Languages : en
Pages : 204

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Author: Emily Keightley
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748683488
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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The first practical guide to research methods in memory studies. This book provides expert appraisals of a range of techniques and approaches in memory studies, and focuses on methods and methodology as a way to help bring unity and coherence to this new

Author: Jennifer Walinga
Publisher: Hasanraza Ansari
ISBN:
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 810

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This book is designed to help students organize their thinking about psychology at a conceptual level. The focus on behaviour and empiricism has produced a text that is better organized, has fewer chapters, and is somewhat shorter than many of the leading books. The beginning of each section includes learning objectives; throughout the body of each section are key terms in bold followed by their definitions in italics; key takeaways, and exercises and critical thinking activities end each section.

Author: Daniel L. Schacter
Publisher: HMH
ISBN: 0547347456
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 289

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A New York Times Notable Book: A psychologist’s “gripping and thought-provoking” look at how and why our brains sometimes fail us (Steven Pinker, author of How the Mind Works). In this intriguing study, Harvard psychologist Daniel L. Schacter explores the memory miscues that occur in everyday life, placing them into seven categories: absent-mindedness, transience, blocking, misattribution, suggestibility, bias, and persistence. Illustrating these concepts with vivid examples—case studies, literary excerpts, experimental evidence, and accounts of highly visible news events such as the O. J. Simpson verdict, Bill Clinton’s grand jury testimony, and the search for the Oklahoma City bomber—he also delves into striking new scientific research, giving us a glimpse of the fascinating neurology of memory and offering “insight into common malfunctions of the mind” (USA Today). “Though memory failure can amount to little more than a mild annoyance, the consequences of misattribution in eyewitness testimony can be devastating, as can the consequences of suggestibility among pre-school children and among adults with ‘false memory syndrome’ . . . Drawing upon recent neuroimaging research that allows a glimpse of the brain as it learns and remembers, Schacter guides his readers on a fascinating journey of the human mind.” —Library Journal “Clear, entertaining and provocative . . . Encourages a new appreciation of the complexity and fragility of memory.” —The Seattle Times “Should be required reading for police, lawyers, psychologists, and anyone else who wants to understand how memory can go terribly wrong.” —The Atlanta Journal-Constitution “A fascinating journey through paths of memory, its open avenues and blind alleys . . . Lucid, engaging, and enjoyable.” —Jerome Groopman, MD “Compelling in its science and its probing examination of everyday life, The Seven Sins of Memory is also a delightful book, lively and clear.” —Chicago Tribune Winner of the William James Book Award

Author: Peter C. Brown
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674729013
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 330

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Discusses the best methods of learning, describing how rereading and rote repetition are counterproductive and how such techniques as self-testing, spaced retrieval, and finding additional layers of information in new material can enhance learning.

Author: Earl Stevick
Publisher: Heinle & Heinle Pub
ISBN: 9780838427736
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 177

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Author: Amy Baldwin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781951693169
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: Nicolae Babuts
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 1412815509
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 247

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Literature explores the human condition, the mystery of the world, life and death, as well as our relations with others, and our desires and dreams. It differs from science in its aims and methods, but Babuts shows in other respects that literature has much common ground with science. Both aim for an authentic version of truth. To this end, literature employs metaphors, and it does so in a manner similar to that of scientific inquiry. The cognitive view does not imply that there is a one-to-one correlation between the world and text, that meaning belongs to the author, or that literature is equivalent to perception. What it does maintain is that meaning is crucially dependent on mnemonic initiatives and that without memory, the world remains meaningless. Nicolae Babuts claims that at the interface with the printed page, readers process texts in a manner similar to the way they explain the visible world: in segments or units of meaning or dynamic patterns. Babuts argues that humans achieve recognition by integrating stimulus sequences with corresponding patterns that recognize and interpret each segment of a text. Memory produces meaning from these patterns. In harmony with its goals, memory may adopt specific strategies to deal with different stimuli. Dynamic patterns link the unit of processing with the unit of meaning. In sum, Babuts proposes that meaning is achieved through metaphors and narrative, and that both are ways to reach cognitive goals. This original study offers perspectives that will interest cognitive psychologists, as well as those simply interested in the process through which literature stirs the human imagination.