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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Alan D Baddeley |
| ISBN: | 0863775454 9780863775451 0863775446 9780863775444 |
| OCLC Number: | 40928178 |
| Description: | xi, 356 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
| Contents: | What is memory? -- The physical basis of memory -- How psychologists study memory -- The nature of human memory -- How many kinds of memory? -- Short-term memory -- Digit span -- Chunking -- Short-term forgetting -- Free recall -- Are short-term and long-term memory separate systems? -- Acoustic cues -- Short-term memory store -- Levels of processing -- Working memory -- Capacity and limitations -- The phonological loop system -- The visuo-spatial sketch pad -- The central executive -- Learning -- Rate of learning -- Distributed practice -- Motivation to learn -- Learning and arousal -- Memory and anaesthesia -- Repetition and learning -- Meaning and memory -- Learning and predictability -- Implicit learning -- Organising and remembering -- Remembering stories -- The role of organisation -- Visual imagery mnemonics -- Supernormal imagery -- Mnemonists and memory feats -- Forgetting -- The forgetting curve -- Memory for events -- Do we forget skills? -- Resistance to forgetting -- Theories of forgetting -- Sleep and memory -- Interference and forgetting -- Accessing the memory trace -- Repression -- Forgetting what is unpleasant -- Hysterical amnesia -- Multiple personality -- Child abuse -- Storing knowledge -- Storing simple concepts -- Schemata -- Scripts -- The nature of semantic memory: Words, images, or propositions? -- Learning new concepts -- Disorders of semantic memory -- The organisation of semantic memory -- Retrieval -- Learning to retrieve -- "On the tip of the tongue". |
| Series Title: | Cognitive psychology. |
| Responsibility: | Alan D. Baddeley. |
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Abstract:
This text combines coverage of the fundamental issues of human memory, based on laboratory research, with illustrations from studies in the real world and in the neuropsychological clinic.
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