LEARNING OBJECTIVES • What age differences are there in prospective memory? • What are some factors that help preserve memory as we grow older? T yler, an elderly man of 80, has been exercising his memory abilities since he reached his 60th birthday. He has made sure to read voraciously, has done his crossword puzzles […]
День: 22.09.2015
Enrollment Trends
From 1980 to 1991, Black male college enrollment increased by 11 percent to 517,000 from 464,000 (+53,000). Black female college enrollment grew by 27 percent (+175,000) for the same period (from 643.0 to 818,000). Overall Black college enrollment increased to 1.335.0 by 1991, representing a 21 percent increase for the twenty — one-year period. By […]
Women and the gendering of pornography
Jane Juffer’s (1998) book At Home with Pornography: Women, Sex and Everyday Life considers the democratizing effects of the commodification of sexually explicit materials, especially as it relates to women’s access to and engagement with erotic genres. Where she differs from McNair is in the way that she demonstrates the continuing influence of ‘quality’ and […]
HOW DO. WE KNOW?
The Influence of Social Contexton Memory Performance Attention and Memory 211 Overall, both younger and older adults construct and update situation models similarly (Dijkstra et al., 2004; Radvansky et al., 2003; Zacks et al., 2000) . For example, Morrow and colleagues (1997) had older and younger adults memorize a map of a building in which […]
Changing circumstances
In contrast to the ideals of love, care and acceptance often associated with ‘the family’, feminist and queer critics have since the 1960s highlighted its ‘dark side’. As Voller has suggested, ‘Nowhere has the hostility to homosexuality been more frightening to large numbers of gay men and lesbians than in their own families, forcing them […]
FEELING RULES AND SOCIAL EXCHANGE
Any gesture—a cool greeting, an appreciative laugh, the apology for an outburst—is measured against a prior sense of what is reasonably owed another, given the sort of bond involved. Against this background measure, some gestures will seem more than ample, others less. The exchange of gestures has in turn two aspects. It is an exchange […]
FEELING RULES AND SOCIAL EXCHANGE
Any gesture—a cool greeting, an appreciative laugh, the apology for an outburst—is measured against a prior sense of what is reasonably owed another, given the sort of bond involved. Against this background measure, some gestures will seem more than ample, others less. The exchange of gestures has in turn two aspects. It is an exchange […]
One of the Boys
martha ellis crone When I was young, my mother told me that I could be anything I wanted to be. I see now that she, mother of two, employed in a series of part-time jobs, may have meant this as encouragement in the face of certain obstacles, or simply as a message of hope. But […]
BEHIND THE SUPPLY: SUPERVISION
The lines of company control determine who fears whom. For flight attendants, the fear hierarchy works indirectly through passengers and back again through their own immediate supervisors* As someone put it, “Whoever invented the system of passenger letter writing must be a vice-president by now.” Any letter from a passenger—whether an “onion” letter complaining about […]
Women Who Rape
This brief narration of the “facts” of this case depict Karla Homolka as, at the very least, a spectator of her male partner’s rapes and murders of young girls. However, her own account attests that her involvement went far beyond voyeurism, making overt her active and sadistic participation. The politics of Karla Homolka’s specularity was […]