Kategoria BISAC: Self-Help >> Personal Growth - Memory Improvement

The term memory encompasses our recollections of past experiences, our ability to keep track of what is happening from moment to moment, our stored knowledge, including knowledge of words and their meanings, our habits, our recognition of objects and faces, and our ability to remember to do things in the future. As such, an understanding of memory is central to an understanding of human behaviour. Memory supports our ability to speak and decode language, to find our way around, to make rational decisions, and to function successfully in society. Moreover, memory of past life-events...

SUPERCHARGE YOUR BRAIN
Discover the secrets of a world memory champion.

By the age of eighteen, Christiane Stenger had won the annual Youth World Memory Training Championship-three times Now she shares her proven brain-boosting program to help you think smarter, faster, and better than you ever thought possible. You'll learn how to:

• REMEMBER lists, names, numbers, and more
• INCREASE your overall intelligence
• ENHANCE creativity and performance
• SCORE higher grades in school
• SUCCEED in work and in life

Packed with interactive exercises,...

How is a sense of self formed from memory? It is difficult to conceptualize a psychology of the self without memory serving as the foundation. "Earliest Childhood Memories" provides a structure and a theory by which this question can be addressed. Cognitive-Perceptual Theory is the only personality theory grounded on autobiographical memory. In addition, Cognitive-Perceptual Theory addresses how personal growth and personality affect memory organization.

When a personality change occurs, early memories change in a parallel manner to reflect the current world view (realign). The Early...

Research on applied memory is one of the most active, interesting and vibrant areas in experimental psychology today. This book provides descriptions of cutting-edge research and applies them to three key areas of contemporary investigation: education, the law and neuroscience.

In the area of education, findings from the study of memory are described which could have a major impact on testing practice, revision techniques for examinations and teaching basic literacy and numeracy. In applications to the law, recent findings shed new light on the dynamics of child abuse...

In the last five years, there have been exciting new scientific discoveries about the brain, its function, and its performance. In this fascinating, entertaining book, brain expert Dr. Richard Restak has asked his colleagues-the world's leading brain scientists and researchers-an important question: What can I do to help my brain work more efficiently? Their surprising answers are at the heart of Think Smart. In his characteristically accessible style,...

Memory and forgetting are inextricably intertwined. In order to understand how memory works we need to understand how and why we forget. The topic of forgetting is therefore hugely important, despite the fact that it has often been neglected in comparison with other features of memory.

This volume addresses various aspects of forgetting, drawing from several disciplines, including experimental and cognitive psychology, cognitive and clinical neuropsychology, behavioural neuroscience, neuroimaging, clinical neurology, and computational modeling. The first chapters of the...