Memory / Fergus Craik and Larry Jacoby.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Craik, Fergus I. M., author.

Jacoby, Larry, author.

Series:

MIT Press essential knowledge series.

MIT Press essential knowledge series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Memory.

Cognitive psychology.

Cognitive Psychology.

Medical Subjects:

Memory.

Cognitive Psychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 255 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2023]

Summary:

"Short, accessible primer on human memory, written by two leading psychological researchers"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Series Foreword

Preface

1 Understanding Memory

Some Early Metaphors

Memory: Not Just "One Thing"

More Than One Type of Memory: Evidence from Amnesic Patients

The Patient Known as H. M.

The Role of Prior Knowledge

The Importance of Associations

The Verbal Learning Tradition

The Cognitive Approach to Understanding Memory

Short- and Long-Term Memory

Memory Systems

Automatic and Controlled Processes

2 From Stores to Processes

Sensory Memories

Short-Term Memory

Working Memory

A Processing Approach

Encoding and Retrieval Factors in Long-Term Memory

3 Common Problems and Goals

Effects of Expectancy, Needs, and Choice on Memory Performance

Measuring Memory

Memory for Pictures and Words

Memory for Names

Memory for High School Classmates

Feeling of Knowing

The Tip-of-the-Tongue Experience

Context Effects

The Effects of Spacing Repetitions and Distribution of Practice

Retrieval as Learning

4 Forms of Memory

Effects of a Prior Exposure on Later Performance

Recognition Memory and Memory Attributions

Separating the Contributions of Familiarity and Recollection

Measuring Automatic and Controlled Influences: Process Dissociation

Proactive Effects of Memory: Interference versus Facilitation

Metacognition

5 Creating Memories

Emotion and Memory

Remembering Emotion

Flashbulb Memories

Involuntary Autobiographical Memories

Memory Wars

Eyewitness Testimony: Malleability of Memory

The Misinformation Effect

False Confessions

6 Aging and Memory

The Long and Short of Memory

Self-Initiated Activities and Environmental Support

Forms of Memory, Aging, and Control

The Ups and Downs of Older Adults' Greater Reliance on Context

Less Efficient Retrieval Processes in Older Adults.

Associative Learning and Memory for Source

Prospective Memory

Memory Problems in Healthy Aging and Dementia

7 Memory and the Brain

Memory in the Brain: Localized or Distributed?

Roles of the Hippocampus

Hyperfamiliarity: The Case of V. L.

Role of the Frontal Cortex

Memory Retrieval Processes in the Brain

Perception, Encoding, and Retrieval: Aspects of the Same Mechanism?

8 Memory Abilities

Cases of Extraordinary Memory: The Mind of a Mnemonist

A Case of Unusual Autobiographical Memory

Expertise as a Basis for Excellent Memory

Constructing Schemata as Memory Aids

Maintaining Good Memory

Memory Rehabilitation

Training Recollection

Training Working Memory

Failing Memory? There's an App for That!

Postscript

Glossary

Notes

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Further Reading

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-262-37358-0

0-262-37357-2

OCLC:

1336989178