Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Memory Distortion: How Minds, Brains, and Societies Reconstruct the Past

Daniel L. Schacter

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Hypnosis, confabulation, source amnesia, flashbulb memories, repression--these and numerous additional topics are explored in this timely collection of essays by eminent scholars in a range of disciplines. This is the first book on memory distortion to unite contributions from cognitive psychology, psychopathology, psychiatry, neurobiology, sociology, history, and religious studies. It brings the most relevant group of perspectives to bear on some key contemporary issues, including the value of eyewitness testimony and the accuracy of recovered memories of sexual abuse.

The distinguished contributors to this volume explore the full range of biological phenomena and social ideas relevant to understanding memory distortion, including the reliability of children's recollections, the effects of hypnosis on memory, and confabulation in brain-injured patients. They also look into the activity and role of brain systems, cellular bases of memory distortion, and the effects of emotion and trauma on the accuracy of memory. In a section devoted to the social aspects of memory distortion, additional essays analyze the media's part in distorting social memory, factors influencing historical reconstruction of the collective past, and memory distortion in religion and other cultural constructs. Daniel Schacter launches the collection with a history of psychological memory distortions. Subsequent highlights include new empirical findings on memory retrieval by a pioneer in the field, some of the foremost research on computational models, studies of the relationship between emotion and memory, new findings on amnesia by a premier neuroscientist, and reflections on the power of collective amnesia in U.S. history, the Nazi Holocaust, and ancient Egypt.

Language: English

Pages: 436

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Release: September 30, 1997

ISBN: 0674566769

ISBN 13: 9780674566767

Memory Distortion: How Minds, Brains, and Societies Reconstruct the Past

Daniel L. Schacter

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Hypnosis, confabulation, source amnesia, flashbulb memories, repression--these and numerous additional topics are explored in this timely collection of essays by eminent scholars in a range of disciplines. This is the first book on memory distortion to unite contributions from cognitive psychology, psychopathology, psychiatry, neurobiology, sociology, history, and religious studies. It brings the most relevant group of perspectives to bear on some key contemporary issues, including the value of eyewitness testimony and the accuracy of recovered memories of sexual abuse.

The distinguished contributors to this volume explore the full range of biological phenomena and social ideas relevant to understanding memory distortion, including the reliability of children's recollections, the effects of hypnosis on memory, and confabulation in brain-injured patients. They also look into the activity and role of brain systems, cellular bases of memory distortion, and the effects of emotion and trauma on the accuracy of memory. In a section devoted to the social aspects of memory distortion, additional essays analyze the media's part in distorting social memory, factors influencing historical reconstruction of the collective past, and memory distortion in religion and other cultural constructs. Daniel Schacter launches the collection with a history of psychological memory distortions. Subsequent highlights include new empirical findings on memory retrieval by a pioneer in the field, some of the foremost research on computational models, studies of the relationship between emotion and memory, new findings on amnesia by a premier neuroscientist, and reflections on the power of collective amnesia in U.S. history, the Nazi Holocaust, and ancient Egypt.

Language: English

Pages: 436

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Release: September 30, 1997

ISBN: 0674566769

ISBN 13: 9780674566767

More books from Daniel L. Schacter

The Seven Sins of Memory: How the Mind Forgets and Remembers

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Searching for Memory: The Brain, the Mind, and the Past

Psychology

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Introducing Psychology

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Psychology

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Memory, Brain, and Belief

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Neuropsychology of Memory

3.5/5 ( ratings)

Psychology Study Guide (Palgrave Study Guides)

3.6/5 ( ratings)

LaunchPad for Schacter's Introducing Psychology with DSM5 Update (Six Month Access)

4.5/5 ( ratings)

The Cognitive Psychology of False Memories: A Special Issue of Cognitive Neuropsychology

Memory Systems 1994

Sleep And Cognition

LaunchPad for Schacter's Psychology (Six Month Access)

Annual Review of Psychology 2014

PSY 201 & 202: General Psychology (OSU Edition)

PSY 1300 General Psychology - Custom Edition for T

Psicologia generale

Introducing Psychology 4e and Worth Expert Guide to Scientific Literacy: Thinking Like a Psychological Scientist

Launchpad for Psychology (1-Term Access)

Psychology 1100 Ohio State Custom Edition

Rate this book!

Write a review?