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Human Memory Mary B. Howes

Human Memory By Mary B. Howes

Human Memory by Mary B. Howes

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Human Memory: Structures and Images offers students a comprehensive overview of research in human memory. Providing a theoretical background for the research, author Mary B. Howes uses a clear and accessible format to cover three major areas-mainstream experimental research; naturalistic research; and work in the domains of the amnesias, malfunctions of memory, and neuroscience.

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Human Memory: Structures and Images by Mary B. Howes

Howes' new textbook, Human Memory, offers a thorough and expansive introduction to the science of remembering and forgetting. With highly accessible prose, Howes keeps the student clearly in mind as she deftly weaves together traditional and novel approaches to memory research. Unlike any other memory textbook on the market . . . it looks to be a definite winner in the classroom.
-James S. Nairne, Purdue University

Presented in a clear and accessible format, Human Memory: Structures and Images offers students a comprehensive overview of research in human memory. Providing a theoretical background for the research, author Mary B. Howes covers three major areas-mainstream experimental research; naturalistic research; and work in the domains of the amnesias, malfunctions of memory, and neuroscience.

Key Features:

  • Presents extensive coverage of naturalistic research: Areas of current naturalistic research, such as eyewitness testimony and courtroom procedures, are included, as are the functioning of memory under atypical or abnormal conditions and traumatic and repressed memories.
  • Emphasizes the constructivist position: Offering greater coverage than other books on this model of memory, this text also examines the debate between constructivist and nonconstructivist theories.
  • Offers two chapters online on computers and memory: Chapter 1 on computer functioning simulation of memory and Chapter 2 on computer models of long-term memory are easily accessed online.
  • Supplies instructors with thoughtfully crafted support material: An Instructor's Resources CD-ROM, including PowerPoint slides, study quizzes, test items, and worksheets, is available to all qualified adopters.

Intended Audience:

This text is designed for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses such as Memory, Human Memory, Memory and Cognition, and Memory and Forgetting.

Human Memory Reviews

Human Memory is an important text in memory science. It is expansive and in-depth, covering topics of theoretical importance and practical implication. The complete coverage allows a professor to teach the important theory that all students must be familiar with as well as many of the most contemporary issues in memory science. -- Bennett Schwartz, Ph.D.
Human Memory is truly comprehensive. It covers the essentials of memory as well as many theoretical perspectives. I look forward to assigning this book to my Learning and Memory class. -- Roberto R. Heredia, Ph.D

About Mary B. Howes

Mary B. Howes received her Ph.D. in 1979 from New York University with a concentration in Cognition. She specializes in cognitive psychology with particular emphasis on early memory. She teaches courses on statistics, cognition, and memory and is author of the text The Psychology of Human Cognition: Mainstream and Genevan Traditions (Allyn & Bacon 1990).

Table of Contents

Preface: An Introduction to the Nature of Human Memory 1. Memory: Historical and Current Perspectives The Classic Model of Memory: Aristotle Empiricism Rationalism Constructivism Computer Models The Study of Memory Methodology and Research Traditions Summary 2. Mainstream Foundations: The Associative Model of Memory Ebbinghaus: Origins of the Associative Model The Verbal Learning Tradition List Learning and Serial Recall Curves Interference Theory Consolidation Theory The Classic Associative Tradition Interference Theory 1940s-1980s Summary Discussion 3. Sensory Memory The Information Processing Tradition Sensory Memory: General Properties Masking Output Interference Echoic Memory Summary Discussion 4. Verbal Short-Term Memory General Properties of Verbal Short-Term Memory Codes in Verbal STM Word Length The Events that Occur When Information Enters Verbal STM Forgetting in Verbal STM Factors that Eliminate or Diminish Short-Term Forgetting Cues and Verbal STM Research Into Manipulations that Influence STM Recall Models of Verbal Short-Term Memory Summary Discussion 5. Working Memory Attention and Working Memory Emergence of the Concept of Working Memory from Short-Term Memory Models of Working Memory: Structural Assumptions Capacity Theories of Working Memory Working Memory as Strongly Activated Content Working Memory in ACT Loss of Information from WM: Ongoing Research A Cueing Model of WM WM as Attentional Capacity The Genevan View Inhibition of Unwanted Material Domain-Specific Versus General Capacity Assumptions WM and Phenomenological Experience Summary Discussion 6. Long-Term Memory: Foundations Memory Stores Spread of Encoding Versus Meaningfulness Entry of Information into LTM Retrieval of Information from LTM: Cues Separate Memory Stores for Different Kinds of Information Encoding Specificity Single-Stage and Two-Stage Models of Retrieval Recognition Memory Signal Detection Theory Summary Discussion 7. Long-Term Memory: Ongoing Research Spreading Activation Models Propositional Coding: The Representation of Semantic Content Secondary Cues, Recursive Processing, and Ecphory Cyclical Retrieval/Global Memory Models Priming and Spreading Activation Models False Memory for Word Items Context and Memory Output Interference in LTM Summary Discussion 8. Constructivism Constructivism: Basic Tenets Bartlett Piaget: The Genevan View Constructivism in Mainstream Psychology Summary 9. Memory Change: Alterations in the Components of a Memory Postevent Information and Memory Change Nonconstructivist Models of Memory Change Constructivist Models of Memory Change Research Data Relating to Constructivist and Nonconstructivist Models Is Incorrect Information Incorporated into the Experienced Memory Source Monitering Inference and Suggestion in Eyewitness Recollection Memory for Faces Eyewitness and Investigative Procedures Emotion and Eyewitness Testimony Summary Discussion 10. Long-Term Memory: Higher Order Structures Inferences Spatial Contexts Context Effects: A Thoery of Spatial Relations, Motions, and Constraint Mental Models Story Schemas Schank's Model of Knowledge Structures and Goal-Based Theory Kintsch's Model of Prose Comprehension Inferences, the Situation Model, and Knowledge Structures: Ongoing Research What Inferences are Generated in Natural Text Comprehension? Summary Discussion 11. Autobiographical Memory First Recollections Causes of Childhood Amnesia Fragment Memories The Nature of Autobiographical Memory Hierarchical Structure in Autobiographical Memory Access and Retrieval in Autobiographical Memory Accuracy and Distortion in Adult Recall Goals, Perspective, and Meaning Positive and Negative Affect in Episodic Memory The Nature of Flashbulb Memory Summary Discussion 12. Memory for Images The Strength of Visual Memory Weakness of Visual Memory The Debate Over Coding Propositional Versus Analog Codes: The Experimental Research Neuroimaging Studies Perception and Memory Images: Deployment of the Same Neural Structures Kosslyn's Theory of Image Generation Eidetic Imagery Hypermnesia 13. Implicit Memory Perceptual and Semantic Priming Implicit Memory: Major Issues Structural/Activation Theory Processing/Episodic Models of Priming Unconscious Perception and Priming Interference in Implicit Memory Implicit Memory as a Separate Memory System Priming as Transfer of Processing Associative Learning Monitoring of Frequency and Temporal Information Complex Associative Learning Implicit Processing and Emotion Summary Discussion 14. Traumatic Memory and False Memory Memory and PTSD Controlled Observational Research Repression, Dissociation, and Consolidation Failure An Epidemic of Recovered Memories Satanic Rituals Individuals Accused of Child Abuse Recovered Memories: Empirical Findings Trauma Associated with Incarceration: Memories of Concentration Camp Survivors Memories of Crimes and Disasters False Memories in Natural Contexts False Memories in Young Children Hypnosis and Memory Summary Discussion 15. Disorders of Memory The Amnesic Syndrome The Amnesic Syndrome: Theoretical Models Deficit in Short-Term Recall Frontal Lobe Damage Loss of Memory for Selective Information Reduplicative Paramnesia and Capgras Syndrome Remediation Memory and Aging Dementia Summary Discussion 16. Neuroscience and Memory The Neuron The Human Brain Neuroimaging Techniques Memory Content and Distributed Processing Strcutures that Mediate Memory Memory Functions and Brain Structures: Neuroimaging Data Storage of Declarative Memory Content: Perceptual Structures Function and Location Emotion and Memory Intermediate Memory 17. Afterword Why Do We Forget? The Status of Information Coded on LTM Meaning Codes and Higher Order Structures Memory Change Memories Discussion

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CIN1412916291VG
9781412916295
1412916291
Human Memory: Structures and Images by Mary B. Howes
Mary B. Howes
Used - Very Good
Paperback
SAGE Publications Inc
20070118
472
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