Memory in Everyday Life (eBook)

G.M. Davies, R.H. Logie (Herausgeber)

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1993 | 1. Auflage
553 Seiten
Elsevier Science (Verlag)
978-0-08-086754-0 (ISBN)

Infos

The last decade has seen a major growth in research on how memory is used in everyday life. This volume represents a reaction to traditional laboratory-bound studies of the first half of the century which sought to identify the fundamental principles of learning and memory through the use of materials and methods totally divorced from the real world. The new wave of memory research has had considerable success in charting how memory develops, the role it plays in educational and social skills and the impact of memory impairment on mental life. The current volume consists of authoritative reviews of this emerging area linked to comment and criticism from major researchers in the field.

Contrasted, probably for the first time, are two major styles of research in applied memory research: The naturalistic approach, which has sought to study memory in everyday environments, using actual experiences from people's lives as the raw data from which to derive more general principles, and the applied cognitive approach, whereby theories and methods are developed using orthodox laboratory techniques which are then validated by applying them directly to real phenomena. This is one of the few books to bring together evidence across the very wide spectrum of humdrum activity that constitutes the everyday uses of memory.

Inhalt

Front Cover 1
Memory in Everyday Life 4
Copyright Page 5
CONTENTS 8
Preface 6
List of Contributors 12
Introduction 16
PART 1: Memory in the Classroom 26
CHAPTER 1. A TALE OF TWO SETTINGS: YOUNG CHILDREN’S MEMORY PERFORMANCE IN THE LABORATORY AND THE FIELD 28
Commentaries : On the Collection of Data 57
Memory and Meaning in the Laboratory and the Field 62
Rejoinder: Meaning, Data and the Diagnosis of Cognitive Competence 70
CHAPTER 2. THE ROLE OF MEMORY IN LEARNING TO READ, WRITE AND SPELL: A REVIEW OF RECENT RESEARCH 74
Commentaries : Memory and Reading: Associated or Dissociated? 93
Strategies for Learning and Instruction 100
CHAPTER 3. FUZZY MEMORY AND MATHEMATICS IN THE CLASSROOM 106
Commentaries : Mathematical Cognition and Fuzzy-Trace Theory 135
Counting on Mathematics in Everyday Life 144
PART 2: Memory and Everyday Life 150
CHAPTER 4. SLIPS AND ERRORS IN LEARNING COMPLEX TASKS 152
Commentaries : Environment versus Cognitions 175
Slips and Errors on Learning Complex Tasks 182
CHAPTER 5. WORKING MEMORY IN EVERYDAY COGNITION 188
Commentaries: Developing the Model of Working Memory 234
Ecological Perspectives of Working Memory 246
CHAPTER 6. THE STRUCTURE OF MEMORY PERFORMANCE IN EXPERTS: IMPLICATIONS FOR MEMORY IN EVERY DAY LIFE 256
Commentaries: Expertise and Extended Memory 288
Hardware, Software, and Goal Maintenance 293
PART 3: Life Skills 298
CHAPTER 7. REMEMBERING OURSELVES 300
Commentaries : Memory of Schemata, Details and Selves 325
Memory, Self and Story 331
Rejoinder: Reflections on Professors Robinson’s and Larsen’s Comments 336
CHAPTER 8. RECOGNISING FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCES 340
Commentaries: Dimensions of Facial Appearance 366
Accessing Identity Information 375
CHAPTER 9. WITNESSING EVENTS 382
Commentaries : The Theory Behind Witnessing Events, and the Practice 417
On Aging Witnesses and Earwitnesses 423
PART 4: Deficits in Memory 432
CHAPTER 10. MEMORY AND AGEING 434
Commentaries: The Maze in the Garden 454
Is Memory Something We Have or Something We Do? 504
CHAPTER 11. COPING WITH MEMORY IMPAIRMENT 476
Commentaries: Memory Rehabilitation for Neurological Patients 497
Some Guidelines on Memory Rehabilitation 504
PART 5: Methodology 512
CHAPTER 12. METHOD AND MEANING IN MEMORY RESEARCH 514
Commentaries: Faith and Scepticism in Memory Research 540
Holy War or Wholly Unnecessary? Some Thoughts on the 'Conflict' Between Laboratory Studies and Everyday Memory 547
Author Index 552
Subject Index 566

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.8.1993
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Biopsychologie / Neurowissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Entwicklungspsychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Test in der Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Verhaltenstherapie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
• ISBN-10: 0-08-086754-5 / 0080867545
• ISBN-13: 978-0-08-086754-0 / 9780080867540