The seven sins of memory : how the mind forgets and remembers

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The seven sins of memory : how the mind forgets and remembers

Title remainder

how the mind forgets and remembers

Statement of responsibility

Daniel L. Schacter

Creator

• Schacter, Daniel L

Subject

• Memory
• Memory disorders
• Recollection (Psychology)

Language

eng

Summary

"Daniel L. Schacter, chairman of Harvard University's Psychology Department and a leading expert on memory, has developed the first framework that describes the basic memory miscues we all encounter. Just like the seven deadly sins, the seven memory sins appear routinely in everyday life. Schacter explains how transience reflects a weakening of memory over time, how absent-mindedness occurs when failures of attention sabotage memory, and how blocking happens when we can't retrieve a name we know well. Three other sins involve distorted memories: misattribution (assigning a memory to the wrong source), suggestibility (implanting false memories), and bias (rewriting the past based on present beliefs). The seventh sin, persistence, concerns intrusive recollections that we cannot forget - even when we wish we could. Although these sins may cause difficulties, as Schacter notes, they're surprisingly vital to a keen mind."--BOOK JACKET

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

153.1/2

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

BF376

LC item number

.S33 2001

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography