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Review # 1 was written on 2017-12-05 00:00:00 Barry Elston Chapter 5 The text states that sleep debts can be repaid, but this information runs counter to what Daniel Levitin states in The Organized Mind (2014). I am not sure which claim is true: whether sleep is always lost forever, or whether sleep debts can be repaid. Levitin mentions that Olympic athletes muscle tone is slackened when they travel to other countries because their sleep schedules are altered. Levitin may only be referring to secondary effects of the lack of sleep when he states that sleep is always lost. This is a section of the textbook that may need clarification. Chapter 7 7-2 “Memory is treachery,” especially short-term memory, which is limited to roughly seven information bits. Chunking can be used to mitigate the effects of memory loss, by linking parts together in a theme of some sort, such as rhyming, sequencing, categorizing, or fitting it into a philosophical superstructure that is already in the long-term memory. Sometimes false memories are created. 7-3 It is suprising that this textbook did not mention in this chapter the fact that everyone thought that they saw on television both of the Twin Towers fall on September eleventh, 2001 (Levitin, 2014). This is a false memory caused by source confusion. On all networks, there was no footage of both towers falling. Only one was filmed falling. Yet many people claim to remember viewing both towers fall. False memories like this one are a result of redintegration. Redintegretaion and interference often alters the original memory through editing of the original feeling of the memory, or more. On the other hand, positive forms of redintegration such as studying habits can exist. Psychologist Daniel Kahneman (2013) used a heuristic of "thinking fast and slow," wherein system one is used for simple and fast things, like reading, while system two is for complex and slow things, such as integrating ideas and concepts into a network of thought that can be more easily recalled in the future. Both of these concepts and examples from these books might benefit the textbook. 7.4 Sometimes a memory is available for access upon certain cues, but not accessible for immediate use. Déjà vu may be a weak partial memory, not available for total recall. Middle things are often lost, because first and last things are more memorable in empty short-term memory blocks. 7-5 Using Memento as an example might discourage encoding failure, in which information fails to be encoded into memory, because it is considered unimportant. People can be primed into having memories that are false, much like the protagonist of Memento. 7-6 Rather than mentioning the young man who had his hippocampus damaged, I would mention a story in Habit, by Charles Duhigg (2012), in which an older man had the portion of his brain that used long term memory destroyed. Because his long-term memory storage was separate from his short-term memory, he could function and take a walk every day, as long as his habit loop was not disturbed by unusual cues. One day a stick was on the sidewalk, so he got lost while walking around his neighborhood. It might be beneficial for the textbook to mention that Memento features the most accurate depiction of a certain type of memory disorder, Anterograde amnesia, in which long-term memory is impossible. Using this movie as an example might allow students to remember the concepts presented more easily. Using the story in Habit might allow students to grasp the separated nature of memory centers. Sometimes imagery that could act as a cue for distressing flashbulb images is edited to avoid unnecessary suffering on the part of the audience. In 2011 an episode of the anime Puella Magi Madoka Magica featuring a natural disaster had imagery cut out of the Tokyo Broadcast Channel presentation of the episode, such as sleeping bags in a gymnasium, because that imagery might trigger flashbulb images of the real tsunami that happened on that day (Atsuhiro, 2011). The next episode was delayed for several weeks because of the general disorder caused by the tsunami as well as nuclear power material leaks. This could possibly be used as an example of flashbulb images, but American audiences might not relate to it as well as the September eleventh attacks on New York. On the other hand, the editing of the anime in Japan might be used to demonstrate the contrast between ultranationalist and multicultural viewpoints. Chapter 8 The book mentions an engineer who invented a weak glue, and applied it to creative use. This is a misrepresentation of the story. The man who invented the sticky-note attended a convention wherein someone else created a weak bonding glue. Another man attended the seminar, and initially thought that the glue was useless. Later, the second man was in church when he realized that the weak-bonding glue could be applied to pieces of paper that he placed in a hymnal. This is an inaccuracy that should be addressed. Furthermore, it should be stated that 3M, the company that manufactures post-it notes, routinely rearranged its factory workers into new departments. Expertise in one field of the factory may be freed up for new divergent and creative use in another field of the factory. This is a way that 3M encourages creativity and innovation, so it seems as if it would be a good piece of information to place in a chapter about how to engage in creative activity. References Atsuhiro Iwakami. (Producer), & Akiyuki Shinbo. (Director). (2011). Puella Magi Madoka Magica. Japan: Shaft. Coon, D. and Mitterer, J. O. (2016). Introduction to psychology: Gateways to mind and behavior. (14th ed.). Boston, MA: Cengage Learning. Duhigg, Charles. Nar. Mike Chamberlain. (2012). The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business. New York: Penguin Random House. Kahneman, Daniel. Thinking Fast and Slow. (2012). New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Levitin, Daniel. The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload. (2014). New York: Penguin Audio. Suzanne Todd (Producer), & Christopher Nolan (Director). (2000). Memento. United States: Newmarket.

Review # 2 was written on 2020-09-06 00:00:00 Elver Allen Read for school