The Processing Of Memories Ple Memory

Author : Norman E. Spear
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1317743830
Total Pages : 705 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Processing of Memories (PLE: Memory) written by Norman E. Spear and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2014-05-09 with total page 705 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1978, this volume contains the evidence that is most crucial for our understanding the processes of forgetting and retention. Organized in terms of problem areas and issues that are particularly pertinent to understanding these processes, the book deals with both animal and human studies. The author begins by defining the topic and reviewing its historical development. A theoretical orientation follows, and then the author begins to address the major factors that determine what is, and what is not, remembered. Although we cannot yet specify the principles from which we can predict when an episode, once learned, will be remembered well or forgotten entirely, the author demonstrates that such principles are not that far away. He considers the issues that must be resolved before such principles are established, and in the course of doing so covers the major research on why we remember events and why they are forgotten.

Author : Norman E. Spear
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ISBN 13 : 9781315775036
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Author : Norman E. Spear
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1317743849
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Processing of Memories (PLE: Memory) written by Norman E. Spear and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2014-05-09 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1978, this volume contains the evidence that is most crucial for our understanding the processes of forgetting and retention. Organized in terms of problem areas and issues that are particularly pertinent to understanding these processes, the book deals with both animal and human studies. The author begins by defining the topic and reviewing its historical development. A theoretical orientation follows, and then the author begins to address the major factors that determine what is, and what is not, remembered. Although we cannot yet specify the principles from which we can predict when an episode, once learned, will be remembered well or forgotten entirely, the author demonstrates that such principles are not that far away. He considers the issues that must be resolved before such principles are established, and in the course of doing so covers the major research on why we remember events and why they are forgotten.

Author : Laird S. Cermak
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1317749804
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Levels of Processing in Human Memory (PLE: Memory) written by Laird S. Cermak and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2014-05-09 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a conceptual framework for the investigation of human memory, the levels-of-processing paradigm had enjoyed immense popularity since its introduction in the early 1970s. It was the impetus behind literally hundreds of experiments and was used as an "explanation" for a wide range of retention phenomena. Consequently, a wealth of data and theory had emerged, and this title assimilates and evaluates this information. Originally published in 1979, the distinguished contributors to the volume – both proponents and opponents of the levels-of-processing framework – present here their latest data and ideas on a viewpoint that has been a tremendous influence in memory research and related areas.

Author : Benton J. Underwood
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1317704835
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Temporal Codes for Memories (PLE: Memory) written by Benton J. Underwood and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2014-05-09 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Given two events, both of which are well remembered, can we specify which event occurred first? If so, how? For example, did Nixon resign, before or after Billie Jean King beat Bobby Riggs? Originally published in 1977, little was known about the accuracy of temporal codes for memories, and still less about the nature of the codes. This volume addresses the central question of the mechanisms by which order information is attached to memories. The results of sixteen previously unpublished experiments indicate the role of some independent variables on temporal coding in relatively short-term memory and in long-term memory. Several experiments, in which changes in proactive inhibition are used as an index of temporal differentiation, show that the nature of the words making up the lists is involved fundamentally in temporal coding. Other experiments demonstrate that in relatively short-term memory a subject cannot learn to improve his performance in estimating how far apart in time two events occurred. Still other experiments show that recency judgments for two events improve with practice, but the improvement is independent of the temporal separation. The context in which memories are established is shown to influence temporal codes only if an ordering metric is part of the context. The author advances several theoretical propositions to account for the various findings. In doing so he has given initial structuring for subsequent research to a neglected area. This volume will still be of significant interest to all those interested in learning and memory.

Author : Reid Hastie
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1317695259
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Person Memory (PLE: Memory) written by Reid Hastie and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2014-05-09 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1980, this title came about after many late night discussions between the authors during a 3-week workshop on Mathematical Approaches to Person Perception in 1974. In subsequent meetings a mutual interest emerged in the development of cognitive information processing metaphors for human thought and their application to problems of social perception, memory and judgment. Within the context of modern research on social cognition, the most distinctive aspects of the authors’ work was its empirical focus on how people cognitively represent people in memory, and its theoretical emphasis on models of cognitive organization and process. They concluded that an adequate theory of social memory was the necessary foundation for solutions to many questions concerning social perception and judgment that had dominated the 1974 workshop. This volume summarizes work conducted between 1974 and 1979 on social memory by these authors. In addition to six chapters summarizing individual research programs, the volume includes a general introduction and a concluding theoretical integration.

Author : A.H.C. van der Heijden
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1317749030
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Short-term Visual Information Forgetting (PLE: Memory) written by A.H.C. van der Heijden and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2014-05-09 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When this title was originally published in 1981, the information processing approach to perception and memory was dominant in experimental psychology, and the research reported here had major implications for future development. After exploring the shortcomings of earlier work in this field, the author develops a new model which he shows to be capable of accounting for a variety of experimental data connected with human information processing, visual perception and attention. The central theme which is discussed is how we select relevant and discard irrelevant information. The basic assumption is that all incoming information is identified, that is, it reaches and activates the appropriate lexical entries. A piece of identified information is described as a unit consisting of three distinguishable codes: a visual code, a lexical or semantic code and a motor or action code. Identified information decays fast, so selective attention operates by selecting those units which have to be saved from this rapid decay. In a sense, therefore, the human information processor is described as struggling against forgetting.

Author : Jonathan K. Foster
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memory written by Jonathan K. Foster and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is memory best regarded as comprising multiple independent systems, as a processing framework, tapped via different levels of processing, or as a complex function which can be used in a flexible manner? Here, international researchers and theorists present stimulating, self-contained, and balanced summaries of the theoretical and empiricaL positions shaping the field today.

Author : Janet Kolodner
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 131768592X
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Retrieval and Organizational Strategies in Conceptual Memory (PLE: Memory) written by Janet Kolodner and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2014-05-09 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Someday we expect that computers will be able to keep us informed about the news. People have imagined being able to ask their home computers questions such as "What’s going on in the world?"...’. Originally published in 1984, this book is a fascinating look at the world of memory and computers before the internet became the mainstream phenomenon it is today. It looks at the early development of a computer system that could keep us informed in a way that we now take for granted. Presenting a theory of remembering, based on human information processing, it begins to address many of the hard problems implicated in the quest to make computers remember. The book had two purposes in presenting this theory of remembering. First, to be used in implementing intelligent computer systems, including fact retrieval systems and intelligent systems in general. Any intelligent program needs to use and store and use a great deal of knowledge. The strategies and structures in the book were designed to be used for that purpose. Second, the theory attempts to explain how people’s memories work and makes predictions about the organization of human memory.

Author : Alan F. Collins
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780863773464
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theories of Memory written by Alan F. Collins and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main emphasis throughout this collection is on theoretical issues and how they relate to existing empirical work.