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THE SEVEN SINS OF MEMORY
How the Mind Forgets and Remembers
Daniel L. Schacter
Houghton Mifflin, 2001
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: The reader will become familiar with seven major memory malfunctions, which the author labels 'sins,' and the underlying structural, chemical, and neurophysiological bases for them. The therapist will become familiar with the ways in which memory is defective in all individuals and the ease with which it is manipulated. This may help distinguish 'normal' and 'abnormal' forgetting.
The book deals with how memories become degraded over time, called here 'transcience.' Other malfunctions considered are absent- mindedness, blocks of memories, misattribution of events, suggestibility of memories, several different types of biases in remembering, and 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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