The Rough Guide to Psychology An Introduction to Human Behaviour and the Mind (Rough Guides)
YOUR SENSE OF THE WORLD AND MOVEMENT WITHIN IT experiencing synaesthetic-like sensations, they also had difficulty perceiving a ...
Everybody has a story to tell. For most of us, it’s the places we’ve been, the people we’ve known and the experiences we’ve had ...
whereas you can only store around five random letters, you should find you can store many more if they are arranged in the form ...
THE ROUGH GUIDE TO PSYCHOLOGY a sense, procedural memories for skills are a kind of implicit memory too – these are abilities yo ...
YOUR MEMORIES As well as being creative and constructive, many of our memories are also dynamic, a phenomenon psychologists have ...
THE ROUGH GUIDE TO PSYCHOLOGY perceive the world via a series of discrete snapshots, we nonetheless enjoy a smooth, borderless v ...
YOUR MEMORIES memory problems. This is a form of impairment known as retrograde amnesia, as opposed to anterograde amnesia, whic ...
THE ROUGH GUIDE TO PSYCHOLOGY Erasing unwanted memories We tend to think of memory as a useful faculty, but sometimes people suf ...
YOUR MEMORIES of their emotional salience and vividness. Similarly, when a person’s life is in danger, there’s a chance that the ...
THE ROUGH GUIDE TO PSYCHOLOGY The good news is that psychologists and psychiatrists appear to be getting closer to finding a way ...
and sweating, it appeared that those previously given propranolol were far less traumatized by hearing their memories than those ...
THE ROUGH GUIDE TO PSYCHOLOGY experience it at one time or another, and it usually occurs in mundane circumstances, such as when ...
YOUR MEMORIES of familiarity. It’s possible that the déjà vu experienced in this scenario stems from that original, unnoticed gl ...
THE ROUGH GUIDE TO PSYCHOLOGY thoughts actually have any comforting effect. This evidence was provided by follow-up studies whic ...
YOUR MEMORIES How to improve your memory Psychologists say that anyone can train themselves to have an excep- tional memory – it ...
THE ROUGH GUIDE TO PSYCHOLOGY learning, long-term retention of information can be improved by summarizing the main points and re ...
Decisions and emotions Life is one decision after another. What shall I wear today? Which newspaper articles shall I bother read ...
THE ROUGH GUIDE TO PSYCHOLOGY In 2006, Schwartz and his colleagues showed that exhaustive searching might well lead maximizers t ...
DECISIONS AND EMOTIONS against a crude description of all human thought as irrational. None- theless, these new insights into th ...
THE ROUGH GUIDE TO PSYCHOLOGY pension plan and other socially desirable choices should similarly be made the default. Kahneman a ...
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