Archive for February, 2007
« Previous EntriesCoping With Delusions
Tuesday, February 27th, 2007It would at first appear contradictory to give advice on how to cope with delusions. The argument is that persons with delusions by definition believe their irrational ideas to be both real and true; therefore, they cannot be argued or reasoned out of them. This is correct. Nonetheless, persons with delusions often recognize their borderline […]
Theories Of Forgetting II
Monday, February 26th, 2007One of the first people to study the mechanisms of forgetting was German psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus. Using himself as the sole subject in his experiment, he memorized lists of three letter nonsense syllable words - two consonants and one vowel in the middle. He then measured his own capacity to relearn a given list of […]
Causes Of Delusions
Monday, February 26th, 2007One of the principal mental disorders associated with delusions is schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is a severe mental disorder characterized by illogical thinking; often there are other signs and symptoms such as hallucinations. However, it is important to understand that a mental disorder such as schizophrenia is not in and of itself a “cause”. The important […]
Theories Of Forgetting I
Sunday, February 25th, 2007Forgetting (retention loss) is a spontaneous or gradual process in which old memories are unable to be recalled from memory storage. It is subject to delicately balanced optimization that ensures that relevant memories are recalled. Forgetting can be prevented by repetition and/or evaluation of the information.
Memory storage, recall and forgetting is still a hotly debated […]
Memory
Sunday, February 25th, 2007Psychologists consider memory to be a different process from learning, although the two are closely related. Whereas learning refers to the acquisition of new behaviours, memory refers to the process of saving or storing information so that it might be available when needed.
In psychology, memory is an organism’s ability to store, retain, and subsequently recall […]
