Archive for February 25th, 2007
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 [...]
Delusions:When Fantasies Become Real
Sunday, February 25th, 2007Waldemar T. is convinced that he can walk through walls. Phillipa M. believes that she has six fingers, one of them invisible to others but visible to her. Orson L. thinks that in the year 2001 Earth will be destroyed in a collision with an enormous comet, that a great ark of space will be [...]
