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

Schacter, Daniel L.

ISBN 10: 0618040196 / ISBN 13: 9780618040193

Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 2001

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Seven Sins of Memory : How the Mind Forgets and Remembers
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0618040196
• ISBN 13: 9780618040193
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 1.212 pounds

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Synopsis

A respected expert on memory describes how the brain stores and recalls information as he describes seven key problems with memory--transience, absent-mindedness, blocking, misattribution, suggestibility, bias, and persistence.

About the Author

Daniel L. Schacter is chairman of the Psychology Department at Harvard University. He has previously written Searching for Memory, which received praise as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and one of Library Journal’s Best Science and Technology Books of the Year. The book won the American Psychological Association’s William James Book Award and received outstanding reviews in The New Yorker and Publishers Weekly. Schacter was the keynote speaker at the American Psychological Association’s 2000 conference and has appeared on 20/20, NBC’s Sunday Today, the Discovery Channel, the Learning Channel, and, with Alan Alda, on PBS’s Scientific American Frontiers.