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Tables of Contents for Human Memory
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CHAPTER ONE Introduction
1
8
Introduction to Human Memory
1
1
Memory Metaphors
2
1
Memory Methodology
3
3
Memory Terminology
6
1
References
7
2
CHAPTER TWO Historical Overview
9
23
A Short History
9
1
Antiquity and the Middle Ages
9
2
The Beginning of Modern Psychology
11
1
British Empiricism and Continental Nativism
12
3
Scientific Psychology
15
1
Hermann Ebbinghaus
16
4
Experiment The Forgetting Function
19
1
Associationist Theories of Memory
20
4
Connectionist Networks
24
4
Further Reading
28
1
References
29
3
CHAPTER THREE Sensory Memory
32
22
Sensory Memory
32
1
Iconic Memory
32
6
Echoic Memory
38
10
Experiment The Stimulus Suffix Effect
43
5
Odor Memory
48
1
References
49
5
CHAPTER FOUR The Modal Model
54
27
Primary Memory
54
1
Broadbent's Model
55
4
The Brown-Peterson Paradigm
59
1
Waugh and Norman's Model
60
2
Atkinson and Shiffrin's Dual-Store Model
62
5
The Serial Position Curve and the Modal Model
67
10
Experiment Recency Effects in Free Recall
73
4
References
77
4
CHAPTER FIVE Current Perspectives on Immediate Memory
81
30
Working Memory
81
11
Experiment The Word-Length Effect
87
5
Immediate Memory as Activation
92
2
The Feature Model
94
11
Summary of Current Immediate Memory Theories
105
1
References
106
5
CHAPTER SIX Perspectives on Processing
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24
Levels of Processing
111
7
Experiment Levels of Processing
114
4
The Encoding Specificity Principle
118
1
Context and Memory
119
7
The Processing Dissociation Framework
126
3
What Is Encoded?
129
2
References
131
4
CHAPTER SEVEN Principles of Forgetting
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23
Consolidation Theory
135
4
Interference Theory
139
3
Decay versus Interference
142
6
Experiment Buildup and Release of PI
144
4
Relative Distinctiveness
148
3
Forgetting as Discrimination
151
3
References
154
4
CHAPTER EIGHT Implicit Memory and Multiple Memory Systems
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25
Implicit Memory
158
2
Implicit Learning
160
2
Experimental Dissociations
162
5
Experiment Priming Word Fragment Completion
165
2
Theoretical Accounts of Implicit Memory
167
9
Comparing Bias, TAP, and the Multiple Systems Views
176
2
References
178
5
CHAPTER NINE Memory, the Brain, and Amnesia
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26
The Neuron
183
4
The Brain
187
8
Experiment Laterality of Language
194
1
Localized versus Distributed Storage
195
1
Amnesia
196
7
Where Is Memory?
203
1
References
204
5
CHAPTER TEN Recognition
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24
Signal Detection Theory
210
4
Experiment Recognition and Signal Detection Theory
213
1
Single Process Models of Recognition
214
2
Generate-Recognize Models
216
4
Remember versus Know
220
2
The Mirror Effect
222
3
Face Recognition
225
3
References
228
5
CHAPTER ELEVEN Global Memory Models
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28
SAM
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8
MINERVA 2
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6
TODAM
248
6
Connectionist Models
254
4
Summary of Global Memory Models
258
1
References
258
3
CHAPTER TWELVE Knowledge
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24
Propositions and Concepts
261
1
Collins and Quillian's Hierarchical Model
262
2
The Feature Overlap Model
264
5
Experiment Typicality Effects and Inferences
266
3
Collins and Loftus' Spreading Activation Model
269
1
Knowing That You Don't Know
270
2
Priming
272
2
Alternatives to Spreading Activation
274
2
Comparing Spreading Activation and Compound Cue Models
276
2
How Is Generic Memory Organized?
278
3
Capacity and Acquisition
281
1
References
282
3
CHAPTER THIRTEEN Imagery
285
21
Analog versus Propositional Representations
285
1
The Dual-Task Method
286
3
Paivio's Dual-Coding Theory
289
1
Experiment Dual Coding Theory
289
1
Mental Rotation
290
2
Distinguishing Propositional from Analog Representation
292
1
Arguments Against Imagery
293
2
Imagery and Perception
295
1
Real versus Imagined Events
296
2
Eidetic Imagery
298
1
Other Forms of Imagery
299
3
References
302
4
CHAPTER FOURTEEN Memory for When
306
20
Data to Be Accounted for
306
3
Models That Don't Work
309
1
Perturbation Theory
310
9
Experiment Memory for Position
314
5
The Inference Model of Memory for When
319
2
Item versus Order Information
321
2
References
323
3
CHAPTER FIFTEEN Reconstructive Processes in Memory
326
24
Flashbulb Memories
326
2
Schemas
328
4
Malleability of Generic Memory
332
2
Eyewitness Memory
334
4
Hypnosis and Memory
338
2
Implanting Memories
340
2
Experiment Memory for Words Not Presented
341
1
Memory Illusions
342
3
References
345
5
CHAPTER SIXTEEN Developmental Changes in Memory
350
26
Memory in Infancy
350
2
Infantile Amnesia
352
1
Memory in Older Children
353
5
Implicit Memory in Children
358
1
Memory and Aging
359
8
Theoretical Explanations of Aging and Memory
367
3
References
370
6
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Mnemonics
376
21
Can I Improve My Memory?
376
1
The Bad News
377
2
The Good News
379
4
Technical Mnemonics
383
5
Experiment Imagery and Mnemonics
387
1
Exceptional Memories
388
6
References
394
3
Appendix
397
8
Table A--Twenty-four nonsense syllables (CVCs)
397
1
Table B--Random arrangements of the digits 1-9
398
1
Table C--Ninety-six two-syllable words
399
1
Table D--Eight short and eight long words
399
1
Table E--Twenty-five common two-syllable nouns
400
1
Table F--Thirty-two consonant trigrams
401
1
Table G--Fifty-six category names
401
1
Table H--Sixty word fragments
402
1
Table I--Eighty concrete and eighty abstract words
403
1
Table J--Six lists of words related to a critical item
404
1
Author Index
405
12
Subject Index
417