Invitation to Psychology

Chapter 7 t hinking and Intelligence COn C ept Map 266 Chapter 7 Thinking and Intelligence Thought The Elements of Cognition Rea ...

COn C ept Map Chapter 7 t hinking and Intelligence Chapter 7 Thinking and Intelligence 267 Intelligence Measuring Memory Animal ...

268 MeMory 8 Wrongly Convicted Man and His Accuser Tell Their Story NEW YORK, NY, January 5, 2010. St. Martin’s Press has an- no ...

E yewitness testimony is an important and necessary part of the legal system, yet Ronald Cotton’s case is not terribly unusual. ...

270 ChaPteR 8 Memory If these happy children remember this birthday party later in life, their constructions may include details ...

ChaPteR 8 Memory 271 their country in World War II often retained accurate memories, for decades, of the day that the radio had ...

272 ChaPteR 8 Memory You are about to learn... • how memories of an event can be affected by the way someone is questioned ab ...

ChaPteR 8 Memory 273 then heard a description of the face supposedly written by another witness—a description that wrongly said ...

274 ChaPteR 8 Memory teacher, or spilling punch all over the mother of the bride at a wedding (Hyman & Pentland, 1996; Linds ...

ChaPteR 8 Memory 275 seeing someone lying on the ground, and other details they could not possibly have experienced directly. Ap ...

276 ChaPteR 8 Memory is say whether it is old or new, or perhaps correct or incorrect, or pick it out of a set of alternatives. ...

ChaPteR 8 Memory 277 fragments depicted. Even when people could not remember having been in the original experiment, they identi ...

278 ChaPteR 8 Memory such as input, output, accessing, and information retrieval. When you type something on your com- puter’s k ...

ChaPteR 8 Memory 279 accounting for these findings, and is consistent with the biological facts about memory. Let us now peer in ...

280 ChaPteR 8 Memory deal of repetition and drill, patients like H. M. can learn some new visual information, retain it in long- ...

ChaPteR 8 Memory 281 focusing it on the information we need for the task at hand and warding off distracting informa- tion (Badd ...

282 ChaPteR 8 Memory on experience and education. In rural Liberia, the more schooling children have, the more likely they are t ...

ChaPteR 8 Memory 283 The Contents of Long-Term Memory. Most theories of memory distinguish skills or habits (“knowing how”) from ...

284 ChaPteR 8 Memory at the end of the list (the recency effect); the items in the middle will tend to drop away (Bhatarah, Ward ...

ChaPteR 8 Memory 285 in human beings. And memories probably never completely solidify, because the very act of re- membering pre ...