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Researchers have long presumed that attitudes play a role in information processing, affecting memory in an attitude-consistent manner. This is known as congeniality. This presumption was largely dismissed as a result of a large scale, comprehensive meta-analysis (Eagly et al., 1999). The current project proposed that the conditions under which congeniality was tested in the past were not conducive for eliciting these effects. The present research tests cognitive capacity restrictions and salient information processing goals as moderators of the effects of attitude on memory in a 3 (Information Processing Goal: Attitude Expressive vs. Alternative Perspective Taking vs. No Goal) X 2 (Time Restriction: Restricted vs. Unrestricted) X 3 (Issue: Eating Red Meat vs. Marijuana Use vs. Playing Contact Sports) design. Participants were given a specific processing goal and were presented with issue-relevant information at either a restricted or unrestricted time interval. After a delay, they were presented with recall and recognition tasks. Results indicated that goals moderated the effects of attitudes on the favorability of correct recall such that memory tended to be biased in the same direction as the goal. Experiment 2 expanded this research by including a second session 48 hours later which served as a second testing phase for memory. Again, during the first session, information processing goals were found to moderate the effects of attitude on the favorability of correct recall. Interestingly, the second session failed to find these effects, but instead found weak evidence of global congeniality regardless of goal condition. The implications of these findings are discussed. / Thesis (Master, Psychology) -- Queen's University, 2007-08-02 17:42:47.148

A standard set of experimental conditions for studying the effects of lesions to the three brain areas using the 8-arm radial maze was used: a win-shift version, a win-stay version, and a conditioned-cue preference (CCP) version. Damage to the hippocampal system impaired acquisition of the win-shift task but not the win-stay or CCP. Damage to the dorsal striatum impaired acquisition of the win-stay task but not the win-shift or CCP. Damage to the lateral amygdala impaired acquisition of the CCP but not the win-shift or win-stay task. These results are consistent with the hypothesis that the mammalian brain may be capable of acquiring different kinds of information with different, more-or-less independent neural systems. A neural system that includes the hippocampus may acquire information about the relationships among stimuli and events. A neural system that includes the dorsal striatum may mediate the formation of reinforced stimulus-response associations. A neural system that includes the amygdala may mediate the rapid acquisition of behaviors based on biologically significant events with affective properties. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)

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A clear double dissociation between the effects of left and right temporal-lobe excisions was demonstrated for two identically-designed learning tasks that utilized different memoranda. Patients with left temporal-lobe lesions showed a deficit for the verbal task and normal performance for the non-verbal analogue, whereas the converse was evident for patients with right temporal-lobe lesions. Again, on two formally similar tests of short-term recall with interpolated activity, this same pattern of dissociation was observed for the retention of verbal as compared with non-verbal information. For both pairs of experiments, the severity of the material-specific learning and retention deficits was directly related to the extent of surgical encroachment upon the hippocampal zone of the affected hemisphere. These studies implicate the hippocampal region in the crucial transfer of experience from a temporary storage system (primary memory) to more permanent long-term storage (secondary memory). / fr

<p>This study seeks to contribute to the literature on the colonial war, genocide and memory studies in Namibia. I review the way in which communities in southern Namibia have developed practices in which to recall and re-enact the colonial war by focusing on narrative genres and public commemorations. I also document how these practices in southern Namibia and the Northern Cape, South Africa symbolically connect and cut across colonial and national borders. I have used the idea of re-constructed and sensorial memory practices within which to view the various narrative genres which display a range of performance repertoire projected onto persons, monuments and land. The study also focuses on the ways in which these memory practices are engaged in order to develop strategies within which to historicise practices of freedom. These have been inserted in the dialogue on national reconciliation through the debates on reparations and the repatriation of human bodies exported to Europe during the colonial war. I argue that these practices depart from a conventional way in which to view an archive and history, and that these memory practices point to the ways in which the logic and acts of the colonial war and genocide were diametrically opposed through acts of humanisation</p>

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The first part of this M.A. thesis is composed of four stories whose common thread is memory. Childhood, first love, the betrayals of adult life, the approach of death. Four stages in a life narrated in the first and third person singular, four stories that could belong to the same female narrator. / The second part is an essay on the role of memory in literary creation. Various aspects of this issue are addressed, drawing mainly on the conceptions of Milan Kundera: "memory is a form of forgetting"; Paul Auster: memory is the buried source from which writing is born; and Peter Handke: the writer must draw from the deepest level of his experience and detach himself from it in order to create.

Typescript. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa. 1988. / Bibliography: leaves 122-126. / Photocopy. / Microfilm. / viii, 126 leaves, bound 29 cm