Brian H. Bornstein

Popular Myths about Memory

Media Representations versus Scientific Evidence

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In Popular Myths about Memory, Bornstein confronts popular myths about memory with scientific evidence on memory permanence, recovered memory and repression, amnesia, eyewitness memory, superior memory, and other topics. This book is recommended for scholars interested in psychology, media and film studies, communication studies, and sociology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 334
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9781498560801
• ISBN-10: 1498560806
• Artikelnr.: 56755772

Autorenporträt

Brian H. Bornstein is professor of psychology and courtesy professor of law at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Memory
Metamemory
Media
and Myth Chapter 1: Memory Myths: A Review and New Data Chapter 2: Memory Accuracy and Permanence Chapter 3: An Unholy Tetrad: Repression
Recovered Memory
False Memory
and Hypnosis Chapter 4: Memory and the Brain: Implants and Erasure Chapter 5: Retrograde Amnesia Chapter 6: Anterograde Amnesia Chapter 7: Memory
Aging
Alzheimer's Disease
and Dementia Chapter 8: Memory and the Legal System: Eyewitnesses Chapter 9: Memory and the Legal System: False Confessions Chapter 10: Superior Memory Conclusion