نتایج جستجو برای: memory for names

تعداد نتایج: 10444389  

Journal: :Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 1988

2012
Carolina Pires Dina Silva João Maroco Sandra Ginó Tiago Mendes Ben A. Schmand Manuela Guerreiro Alexandre de Mendonça

Diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment relies on the presence of memory complaints. However, memory complaints are very frequent in healthy people. The objective of this study was to determine the severity and type of memory difficulties presented by elderly patients who seek for clinical help, as compared to the memory difficulties reported by subjects in the community. Assessment of subjectiv...

Journal: :Social science & medicine 2001
B L Lambert K Y Chang S J Lin

Health professionals and patients tend to confuse drugs with similar names, thereby threatening patient safety. One out of four medication errors voluntarily reported in the US involves this type of drug name confusion. Cognitive psychology offers insight into how and why these errors occur. The objective of this investigation was to examine the effect of orthographic (i.e., spelling) and phono...

2013
Donald G. MacKay Laura W. Johnson Vedad Fazel Lori E. James

Three studies examined amnesic H.M.'s use of words, phrases, and propositions on the Test of Language Competence (TLC). In Study 1, H.M. used 19 lexical categories (e.g., common nouns, verbs) and one syntactic category (noun phrases) with the same relative frequency as memory-normal controls, he used no lexical or syntactic category with less-than-normal frequency, and he used proper names (e.g...

Journal: :Journal de la société des américanistes 2001

ژورنال: یافته 2016

Background : This study was done with the aim of investigating the role of cognitive and emotional deficiencies in anticipation of membership in addicted and non-addicted groups. Materials and Methods: This fundamental and reviewing type research is a cross-sectional comparative study that was performed retrospectively. Population of the study was all the male substance abusers referred to a...

Journal: :Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition 2014
Moshe Naveh-Benjamin Angela Kilb Geoffrey B Maddox Jenna Thomas Hope C Fine Tina Chen Nelson Cowan

Although working memory spans are, on average, lower for older adults than young adults, we demonstrate in 5 experiments a way in which older adults paradoxically resemble higher capacity young adults. Specifically, in a selective-listening task, older adults almost always failed to notice their names presented in an unattended channel. This is an exaggeration of what high-span young adults sho...

Journal: :international journal of society, culture & language 2016
theresah ennin nancy nkansah

names as markers of identity are a source of a wide variety of information. this paper explores the names of characters to show the sociocultural factors which influence the choice of names and the effects that the names of these characters have on the roles they play. using a variety of personal names from ayi kwei armah’s fragments, buchi emecheta’s the joys of motherhood, and nawal el sadaaw...

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