Principles of Memory

ISBN-13: 9781841694221 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 202 str.

Aimee Surprenant; Ian Neath

Opis

Proposes 7 principles of human memory that apply to various memories. This volume includes principles which are qualitative statements of empirical regularities that can serve as intermediary explanations and which follow from viewing memory as a function.

Spis treści

1. Introduction. 2. Systems or Process? 3. Principle 1: The Cue Driven Principle. 4. Principle 2: The Encoding-Retrieval Principle. 5. Principle 3: The Cue Overload Principle. 6: Principle 4: The Reconstruction Principle. 7. Principle 5: The Impurity Principle. 8. Principle 6: The Relative Distinctiveness Principle. 9: Principle 7: The Specificity Principle. 10. Evaluation, Limitations, and Implications. References.

O autorze

Aimée M. Surprenant is currently a professor in the Department of Psychology at Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Canada. She received a B.A. in psychology from New York University in 1988 and a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from Yale University in 1992. She received a National Research Service Award from the National Institutes of Health for post-doctoral work at Indiana University in the Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences. Her research has been published in journals such as Memory, Memory & Cognition, Perception & Psychophysics, the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, and the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. Ian Neath is currently a professor and head of the Department of Psychology at Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Canada. He received a B.A. in psychology and history from Rice University in 1987, and a Ph.D. in psychology from Yale University in 1991. He has published numerous articles and chapters on human memory, and is currently on the editorial boards of Memory & Cognition, the Journal of Memory and Language, and Psychological Science.