background preloader

Psychology

Facebook Twitter

Psychology. How Memory Works: an Infographic. For our blog’s sections on ‘Your Brain‘ and ‘Test Prep‘, we’re always on the lookout for great articles, videos and charts on memory and retention.

How Memory Works: an Infographic

By helping you understand how our brains work, we want to allow you to try different approaches to studying that will hopefully help you become better learners for life. Over time, we’ve compiled articles on brain foods, how motivation and memory works, methods for better retention, … If we take a look at the sum of all articles and areas of interest, it seems obvious that there should be one chart that combines all of these elements that make up and influence our memory. Editing Reality. In September 2007, the British press reported on an unusually macabre story.

Editing Reality

Ten years earlier, a widow had died at the age of 84 from an embolism brought on by a thrombosis in one of the veins in her legs. However, the widow's two middle-aged daughters queried this cause of death, and asked the funeral parlour to keep their mother's cadaver in cold storage. The initial purpose for this request had been to obtain a second opinion, but ten years later the cadaver had still not been interred. Instead, the daughters had been having the cadaver brought out into a chapel of rest to be visited by them at regular intervals. The younger sister, a bank worker, visited every Saturday lunch-time to sit with the cadaver; the elder sister, a caterer, visited separately to touch up her mum's lipstick and foundation and to place fresh padding in her stomach cavity. Psychology - Complete Guide to Psychology for Students, Educators & Enthusiasts.

Psych Research. Evolutionary Psychology.