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When adults concerned about their memory come to the Pisgah Institute for Psychiatry and Education in Asheville, N.C., psychologist Ed Hamlin gives them standard tests for visual and verbal memory, delayed recall and delay in attention and concentration. For most, the results are reassuring: their memory is not only good, it exceeds the average for their...
...They are really problems with your attention." There are three basic steps in memory: registration, retention and retrieval. They occur sequentially; if new information isn't taken in (registered), it can't be stored. Focusing on incoming material, whether heard, seen or read, helps implant it in memory. Psychologist Cynthia Green advises students in her memory classes at New York City's Mount Sinai Medical Center that "often what we think we forgot we really didn't 'get' in the beginning...
...example, she said a Harvard psychologist showed her an experiment in which he asked people to imagine words like "dog," and then words like "impossible...
...actually seeing couples court each other and build up some level of intimacy," says psychologist Alan Clark of Santa Monica, Calif. "This can help make relationships more meaningful and exciting down the road...
According to Anthony E. Wolf, a psychologist and author of It's Not Fair: Jeremy Spencer's Parents Let Him Stay Up All Night!, kids this age are learning to see themselves not just as part of your family but also in the larger social context of, say, the fifth-grade class. One result is that kids try on other families' rules for size...