The Camping Trip by Jennifer K. Mann

2020 ◽  
Vol 73 (9) ◽  
pp. 403-404
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Bush
Keyword(s):  
Author(s):  
Dillon H. Murphy ◽  
Alan D. Castel

AbstractThe ability to control both what we remember and what is forgotten can enhance memory. The present study used an item-method directed forgetting paradigm to investigate whether participants strategically remembered items they were responsible for remembering rather than items a hypothetical friend was responsible for remembering. Specifically, participants were presented with a 20-word list (either unrelated words or items to pack for a camping trip) with each word followed by a cue indicating whether the participant (You) or their “friend” (Friend) was responsible for remembering the word. When asked to recall all of the words, regardless of the cue, recall was sensitive to the You and Friend instructions such that participants demonstrated elevated recall for the items they were responsible for remembering, and participants also strategically organized retrieval by recalling You items before Friend items. Additionally, when asked to judge the importance of remembering each item, participants’ recall and recognition were sensitive to item importance regardless of cue. Taken together, the present experiments revealed that the strategic encoding of important information and the forgetting of less important, goal-irrelevant information can maximize memory utility and minimize negative consequences for forgetting. Thus, we provide evidence for a metacognitive process we are calling responsible forgetting, where people attempt to forget less consequential information and focus on remembering what is most important.


2010 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Rausch ◽  
Peter C. Boxall ◽  
Arunas P. Verbyla

This study develops an intertemporal fire damage function for forest recreation activity in the eastern slopes region of the Canadian Rocky Mountains. The methodology employed combined revealed-stated preference data in which the behavioral response variable was annual camping trip frequencies. Photographs were used to portray changes in stand ages and related changes in trip frequencies. The data were analysed using negative binomial count data models. Unlike previous studies employing similar methods, a random effects specification was used to develop trip demand parameters. The results suggest that fires initially decrease annual trips from ~2.56 to 1.0 after the burn. As the stand ages, the effect of the fire decreases until ~12 years after the fire when the trip frequencies recover to about their previous ‘old-growth’ levels. This function is different from others described in the literature for similar mountain ecosystems in North America.


2014 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 505-515
Author(s):  
Mohamed Bentrcia

A detachable, automotive solar system for water and passenger compartment heating is developed. The study shows that an adjustable 1 m2 solar collector is sufficient to satisfy the needs of a small group during a short camping trip in Saudi Arabia desert. Also it is found that an adequate water temperature in the storage tank, due to ambient solar heating, is maintained in all cold months, except December when it is insufficient. Among the advantages of the system is its entire operation on renewable solar energy and its ability to heat the car compartment whenever the heated water reaches the required temperature and solar energy is still available.


2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Derrick Stone

For the first time in a single volume, this book brings together more than 140 of the best walks, tracks or trails in New South Wales, which can be walked by the moderately fit individual. They are located in national parks, coastal parks, state forests, conservation reserves, historic parks and local government and public easements. Other routes follow state highways, minor roads, coastal cliffs, old gold routes, or pass bushranger haunts and back roads linking towns and historical features. Most routes do not require specialist navigation or bushcraft skills, and vary in length from a 45-minute stroll to a 4-day, 65-kilometre camping trip. Walks, Tracks and Trails of New South Wales highlights the best the state has to offer, from an outback ghost town and ancient lake beds, to Australia’s highest mountain, coastal environments and World Heritage rainforests. Easy-to-interpret maps are included to help you navigate, and the book’s size makes it convenient to bring with you on your adventures.


1974 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marlene R. Ventura ◽  
Mike Dundon

Six young men and three counselors completed a 7–day canoeing and camping trip on a 100 mile course in Ontario's Algonquin Provincial Park. This experimental program conducted by YMCA of Western New York was patterned after the Outward Bound program. An attitudinal test administered to the counselees before and after the trip revealed no significant changes in self-esteem although some anecdotal notes are reported. Speculation is made that the measurement of changes in self-esteem may not lend itself to pre- and post-testing with standardized tests in the brief interval and that a “sleeper effect” may exist.


2010 ◽  
Vol 83 (3) ◽  
pp. 482-507 ◽  
Author(s):  
William W. Stowe

Wilderness vacations were becoming popular in the antebellum period. Thoreau's Maine sojourns and Emerson's Adirondack camping trip offered opportunities to rethink relations between humans and nature. Thoreau's vacation essays explore the meanings of contact with objects, plants, animals, and people. Emerson's vacation poem affirms and challenges human domination of the natural world.


Australianama ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 125-140
Author(s):  
Samia Khatun

Chapter 6, examines an Arabunna story of encounter at a lonely railway siding in South Australian deserts in around 1895. The tale of what happened when two South Asian men met two Aboriginal women at Alberrie Creek continues to circulate in Arabunna families today. I undertake a camping trip through South Australian deserts with Reg Dodd, the Chairman of the Arabunna People’s Committee, and show that these Arabunna histories of South Asians can offer glimpses of the terrain on which Arabunna historiographical traditions are inscribed.


1967 ◽  
Vol 18 (10) ◽  
pp. 296-298
Author(s):  
Frances W. McFARLAND ◽  
Robert C. Martin ◽  
Theodore A. Williams

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