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Historians' Unending Perpetuation of the Memory of the Civil War

about battle strategy or about the lives of those that fought the war. On the surface at least it is about the impact the war has...

Children with Specific Language Impairment and the Relationship between Working Memory and Language Learning: An Experimental Analysis

diagnosed with SLI than in the hearing-impaired children. In other words, a diminished functioning of complex working memory may ...

University Days by James Thurber

describes his economic class and the perplexed foot player who has difficulty naming one means of transportation. Again, the humor...

Developing an Effective IEP for Students with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

dystrophin on the development of the cerebellum (Marini et al., 2007). At a more abstract level, it has also been determined that ...

Brain Structures and Learning/Memory

systems" (Zola-Morgan & Squire, 1993, p. 347). The amygdala is one of the structures that demonstrates the varied nature of me...

Positivism, Behaviorism and Gestalt Psychology

greater focus on operant conditioning. Skinner furthered the concept of conditioning in relation to operant conditioning, which r...

Questions on Memory

resulted in witnesses estimating a higher average speed ("All about," n.d.). This suggests that the word "smashed" connoted a high...

The Role of Cognitive Change

more they participate in skills that advance their understanding of language, their functional memory and their understanding o co...

Salvador Dali, Persistence of Memory

his best work (Meisler). "The Persistence of Memory" was painted in 1931 and is oil on canvas, measuring 9 1/2 inches x 13 inches ...

The Farming of Bones and Memory

to trill their "r" (Danticat, 114). Yet, another important memory is associated with the death of Amabelles parents, which is trau...

Forgetting in short and long term memory systems

since we are receiving a lot of sensory stimuli all the time, we filter out the ones which are not needed (ignoring background noi...

Oral History vs the Clinical Record

story behind Lennox Castle Hospital. Colin Sprowl, a man that worked over thirty years at the hospital as a male nurse, provides ...

PTSD and its Effects Upon Soldiers' Lives

But all that stress accumulates" (McGirk, 2009, p. 40). With lengthy tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, PTSD is unfortunately...

Hermann Ebbinghaus Life and Contributions

f?r Psychologie und Physiologie der Sinnesorgane (Hermann Ebbinghaus). (The title translates roughly as the "Journal of Psychology...

Memory Errors Extend to Perception (Article Analysis)

be there-particularly if it is a significant event-but things change a little. The memory may play tricks. Distortions may occur. ...

Hunger for the Past, Hunger of Memory

family lived in Sacramento, only a block from some very nice (and expensive) homes, and that outside of a few taunts, he never hea...

Personal Essays

career involved his presence in the Civil Rights Movement. He was a President who seemed concerned about injustice in the nation. ...

Slavery, Rebellion and the Memory of Freedom

of early American history did not have a complex culture, a culture that encompassed a deep religiosity. Indeed, Nat Turner, lead...

False Memory Syndrome

the idea that the memories were fabricated. They were based on the wish of the individuals, and not an actual event (Hickey, 2003)...

Older Population and Landmark Objects Study

In 5 pages this research study on senior citizens and landmark objects as assisting in memory is the focus of this critique and an...

An analysis from Chapter 4 of the Autobiography of Carl Jung

to that of a man and saw womens role in society as being purely to serve men. When they were "no longer willing to fill that role,...

3 Literary Biographies

not (2000). 2. Compare Menchu, Dorfman and Rodriguezs ideas about Spanish and what factors attribute to their differences? Wh...

Memory Enhancers or Mnemonic Devices in Education

The keyword technique is especially useful for those learning a foreign language, understanding how an integral part of mastering ...

Baron/The Sweet Smell of...Helping/An Article Review

individual than when no fragrance of any kind was in the air. People were not only more apt to offer assistance, but they also re...

U.S. and Japan Cultural Memory Influences of the Atomic Bomb

the United States make it as clear as possible that there was to be no more armed conflict. This second attack was instrumental i...

General Anesthesia and Explicit Memory

did not indicate the doses of anesthetic administered and hypnosis was used to recall information (hypnotized individuals are hig...

Human Memory and How It Is Organized

forgotten memory. However, most events eventually become permanently lost and can never be retrieved" (Robinson, 2001). An...

Memory: Like the Brain Still (Relatively) Uncharted Territory: An Article Review

systems for understanding memory were left primarily to psychological theories until memory impairments (e.g. Alzheimers) began to...

Eyewitness Testimony Admissibility

Time Estimates: eyewitnesses typically overestimate how long an event took to unfold; 4. Cross-race Bias: eyewitnesses are more ac...

Can Recovered Memories and Eyewitness Testimony Be Trusted?

Men and women are being accused, tried, and convicted with no proof or evidence of guilt other than the word of the accuser" (Loft...