Browsing by Subject "memory"
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Expert literary works, such as the work of Ben Kiernan, have explored the root causes and timetables of genocides and the links between them. Scholars like Hannah Arendt studied the individuals psyche in greater depth ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)This study examined a measure of children's memory for information from a story about a hypothetical mother and child, the Story Task, as a potential tool to delineate subtypes of aggressive children based on the pattern ...
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(2012-10-19)This dissertation examines how postmodernist narratives of memory in Graham Swift's Waterland, Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children, and Amitav Ghosh's The Shadow Lines retrieve the stories of those who have been lost or ...
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(2022-12-12)This research analyzes how the women from Tente theater group transformed their traumatic experience concerning disappearance into the theater play Anunciando la Ausencia or Announcing the Absence, which engages the audience ...
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(2019-04-22)The purpose of this experiment was to examine the cognitive mechanisms by which an animal uses associations to learn about temporally ambiguous aversive events. Traditionally, associative learning using forwards conditioning, ...
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(2009-05-15)Highly affective memories have been thought to be longer lasting and more detailed than other memories, and many experimental results have supported this assertion. The apparent robustness of these memories, however, may ...
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Memory prefetching in computer processors is the practice of predicting memory addresses that will need to be accessed and issuing requests to pull data from those addresses ahead of time. These circuits are crucial to ...
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(1982)Eight hyperactive children were compared to eight control children matched with regard to age, ethnicity and school grade on tests of auditory perception and memory (Digit Span), spatial figure recognition (Gestalt Closure ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-11-01)Various works have demonstrated the usage of action as a critical component in allowing autonomous agents to learn about objects in the environment. The importance of memory becomes evident when these agents try to learn ...
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(2013-02-12)Desirable difficulties during the learning process have been shown to enhance learning. In this study we examined how increasing contextual variation boosts memory. Specifically, we investigated how gradually making retrieval ...
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Effects of Experience and Meaningfulness on Learning and Memory in a Sensory Restricted Environment (1984)This study examines two previously untested conditions in a sensory restricted environment: meaningfulness and experience. Meaningfulness was measured by employing three different levels of learning material. The learning ...
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(1986)Environmental Context effects refer to experimental findings that recall of learned material is better if it takes place in the original learning environment rather than in a changed physical environment. Eich (1985) ...
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(2015-07-22)In recent years, great strides have been taken in the advancement of Shape Memory Alloy (SMA) modeling capabilities. The accompaniment of advanced constitutive models with standardized solution techniques have meant that ...
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(2012-02-14)Laboratory methods for studying memory blocking and recovery include directed forgetting, retrieval-induced forgetting, and retrieval bias or memory blocking procedures. These methods primarily use word lists. For example, ...
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(2016-04-19)The danger of buried trauma in the subconscious is that it often surfaces to haunt the individual. Disturbing memory that has been excluded from that of the collective (the cultural consciousness) acts as a ghost. In ...
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Imagining TR: Commemorations and Representations of Theodore Roosevelt in Twentieth-Century America (2014-11-03)By examining monuments and memorials dedicated to Theodore Roosevelt in the twentieth century, this dissertation exposes the commemorators’ conscious and unconscious perceptions of masculinity and American identity visible ...
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(2015-08-12)Ability and knowledge tests are often used in academic and personnel settings to evaluate individuals. For numerous reasons, providing individuals the opportunity to retest is recommended by scientific and professional ...
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(2014-07-29)How old one feels, one’s subjective age, has been shown to predict important psychological and health outcomes. However, few studies have demonstrated a relationship between subjective age and cognitive performance. The ...
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On June 13, 2021, the Algerian Ministry of Communication revoked the media accreditation of the French television news channel France 24 in Algeria. This was during a period of popular protest led by the pro-democracy Hirak ...
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(2019-05-16)Studies of masculinities have challenged the monolithic concept of masculinity as patriarchy by examining men's diverse experiences in different historical periods. Studies of Victorian masculinities as sub-division of the ...