Ebook: How the Mind Forgets and Remembers: the Seven Sins of Memory

Cover; Excerpt; Title Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION: : A Blessing Bestowed by the Gods; 1 : The Sin of Transience; 2 : The Sin of Absent-mindedness; 3 : The Sin of Blocking; 4 : The Sin of Misattribution; 5 : The Sin of Suggestibility; 6 : The Sin of Bias; 7 : The Sin of Persistence; 8 : The Seven Sins: Vices or Virtues?; NOTES : BIBLIOGRAPHY : INDEX; Notes; Bibliography; A, B, C; Index; D, E, F; G, H, I; J, K, L; M, N, O; P, Q, R; S, T, U; V, W, X; Y, Z; OTHER BOOKS BY DANIEL L . SCHACTER; Copyright.;A groundbreaking work by one of the world's foremost memory experts that offers the first framework to explain the basic memory miscues that we all encounter. Daniel L. Schacter, chairman of Harvard University's Psychology Department, is internationally recognised as one of the world's authorities on memory, explains that just as the seven deadly sins, the seven memory sins appear routinely in everyday life, and why it is a good thing that they happen and surprisingly vital to a keen mind. The author explains how transience reflects a weakening of memory over time, how absentmindedness occurs wh.