SEARCH RESULTS

YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Importance of Memory in Beloved by Toni Morrison

Essays 391 - 420

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

Memory Processes

a memory lapse. The alternative method is more accurate. I saw this woman out of context. The only place I had ever seen and inter...

Questions on Memory

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

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...

The Role of Cognitive Change

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

"The Natural Order of Things" - An Analysis

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at Antunes' "The Natural Order of Things". Time and memory are explored as symbols in ...

Memory Exhibition

This essay is on the Memory exhibition at the Exploratorium Museum in San Francisco that ran from May 22, 1998 to January 10, 199...

Two Poems, Childhood Memories of Father

This essay discusses Theodore Roethke's "My Papa's Waltz," and Robert Hayden's poem "Those Winter Sundays." Both poems pertain to...

Lesson Plans Kindergarten-First Grade

There are two complete lesson plans presented in this essay. The focus is early language and literacy development. One of the less...

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...

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 ...

Memory and the Aging Process

the memories that people recall is attached to certain phases and stages of life. Some people have difficulty recalling childhood ...

Learning Comprehension

in that they know what the purpose of learning how to read is. Children do not necessarily equate a pleasant purpose. There are m...

Experimental Design Evolution

In a paper of twelve pages, the writer looks at the evolution of experimental designs. The discovery of limitations in one experim...

Early Childhood Trauma and Recovered Memories

Psychologists are challenged when trying to separate fact from fiction as it respects the extent to which childhood abuse occurred...

Wechsler Intelligence Test for Children

This essay discusses a number of issues related to the Wechsler for Children and testing scores in general. It defines percentile,...

Ssubstance Abuse

Drug addiction and substance abuse are very complex conditions. The more prolonged they are, the more damage they do to the brain’...

Memory Studies

Metamemory refers to the beliefs and judgments people hold about the accuracy of their own memories. The literature mostly suggest...

Brown-Peterson Technique

There are three major issues discussed in this essay. The paper begins with a brief discussion of mental rotation with an example....

The Law and Recovered Memory of Sexual Abuse

This paper concludes that retrieved sexual abuse memories should be permissible in legal proceedings. Both sides of the issue are ...

"The Lonely, Good Company of Books," Richard Rodriguez

This essay pertains to Richard Rodriguez's view of reading and education as expressed in "The Lonely, Good Company of Books," whic...

Early Language Acquisition

Cognitive development is about information processing, reasoning, intelligence, memory, and language development. It is about the ...

Glossary for Developmental Psychology

Each field has its own set of terms and phrases. While they all make sense to experienced practitioners, they do not necessarily m...

Human Explicit Memory and Advancement of Converging Scientific Evidence

this topic, the term "awareness" generally refers to explicit memory (Sigalovsky, 2003). Implicit memory refer to "change in perfo...

Techniques for Pain Reduction Explored in 4 Questions

Only of late have these somewhat misconstrued treatments been given their just consideration. Because perceived pain intrudes upo...