Introduction | p. ix |
Understanding How Memory Works | |
You and Your Memory | p. 1 |
How Memory Serves Us | |
What This Handbook Is About | |
Pinpointing Your Difficulties in Forgetting | |
Feelings and Forgetting | |
Registering, Retaining, Retrieving | |
Take Note!--Registering | p. 17 |
Attitude | |
Interest | |
Attention--Using Your Senses | |
Organizing | |
Registering--Summary | |
Storing Your Files--Retaining | p. 27 |
What Is Short-Term Memory? | |
How Does Short-Term Memory Work? | |
What Is Long-Term Memory? | |
How Does Long-Term Memory Work? | |
General Knowledge Memory and Personal Experience Memory | |
Retaining--Summary | |
Finding the Needle in the Haystack--Retrieving | p. 41 |
Retrieving | |
The "Tip of the Tongue" Experience | |
Recognition | |
Retrieving--Summary | |
Why We Forget | p. 51 |
Absentmindedness | |
A Few Words About Theories of Forgetting: Disuse, Interference, Distortion, Repression | |
Summary | |
Am I Losing My Grip? Aging and Memory | p. 57 |
Introduction | |
We Are All Individuals | |
Memory and Energy Levels | |
Senility and Brain Disorders | |
Depression and Memory | |
Intelligence and Aging | |
Learning and Aging | |
Dealing With Memory Changes | |
Common Practical Strategies for Remembering in Everyday Situations | p. 77 |
Introduction | |
Accentuate the Positive | |
Be Organized: Making Lists, Keeping Appointment Diaries and Calendars | |
Be Aware/Cockpit Drills | |
Be Orderly/A Place for Everything/Routines | |
Other Strategies for Remembering--Using Mnemonic Techniques | p. 91 |
Introduction | |
Method of Loci | |
Peg Word System | |
What's in a Name--Remembering Names and Faces | |
Mnemonic Techniques--Summary | |
Lifestyle and Memory--Putting it All Together | p. 109 |
Body, Mind and Spirit | |
How Does Nutrition Affect Your Memory? | |
Memory and Recreational Drugs--Alcohol, Tobacco, Coffee and Tea | |
Medications and Memory | |
Handling Stress and Tension | |
Physical Activity and Memory | |
Self-Worth and Memory | |
Lifestyle and Memory--Summary | |
Wisdom and Age | p. 131 |
Wisdom and Spirit/Weaving the Strands of One's Life | |
Self-Acceptance | |
Footnotes | p. 137 |
Selective Bibliography | p. 139 |
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