This text combines coverage of the fundamental issues of human memory, based on laboratory research, with illustrations from studies in the real world and in the neuropsychological clinic.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-343) and indexes.
Processing Action (note)
committed to retain
Contents
What is memory? -- The physical basis of memory -- How psychologists study memory -- The nature of human memory -- How many kinds of memory? -- Short-term memory -- Digit span -- Chunking -- Short-term forgetting -- Free recall -- Are short-term and long-term memory separate systems? -- Acoustic cues -- Short-term memory store -- Levels of processing -- Working memory -- Capacity and limitations -- The phonological loop system -- The visuo-spatial sketch pad -- The central executive -- Learning -- Rate of learning -- Distributed practice -- Motivation to learn -- Learning and arousal -- Memory and anaesthesia -- Repetition and learning -- Meaning and memory -- Learning and predictability -- Implicit learning -- Organising and remembering -- Remembering stories -- The role of organisation -- Visual imagery mnemonics -- Supernormal imagery -- Mnemonists and memory feats -- Forgetting -- The forgetting curve -- Memory for events -- Do we forget skills? -- Resistance to forgetting -- Theories of forgetting -- Sleep and memory -- Interference and forgetting -- Accessing the memory trace -- Repression -- Forgetting what is unpleasant -- Hysterical amnesia -- Multiple personality -- Child abuse -- Storing knowledge -- Storing simple concepts -- Schemata -- Scripts -- The nature of semantic memory: Words, images, or propositions? -- Learning new concepts -- Disorders of semantic memory -- The organisation of semantic memory -- Retrieval -- Learning to retrieve -- "On the tip of the tongue."