Description
Human Memory
A Constructivist View
Authors: Howes Mary B., O'Shea Geoffrey
Language: EnglishSubject for Human Memory:
Keywords
Activity models; Agency; Amygdala; Analog representation; Blocking hypothesis; Causality; Chaining models; Coding; Coherence; Complex chaining models; Compound cue models; Conceptual schema; Constructivist; Containment; Control node; Control processes; Core properties; Cue-dependent theory of recall; Cues; Cyclical retrieval models; Declarative memory; Discriminability; Dissociative model; Dynamic changing-states models; Empiricism; Episodic memory; Flashbulb memories; Genevan view; Header; Headers; Hypermnesia; Illusion of truth; Image schema; Individuating effect; Infantile amnesia; Inferential reconstruction; Interference; Link; Long-term memory; Memory organization packages (MOPs); Memory significate; Memory-forcing effect; Misinformation effect; Modified test; Mood tone; Mushing; Noetic; Non-divorce hypothesis; Oscillator models; Output interference; Path; Period of consolidation; Perturbation model; Position coding; Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD); Primacy effects; Processing structure; Propositional coding; Rationalist; Recency effects; Reconstruction; Reminiscence; Repeated testing; Replacement hypothesis; Retrieval; Schema; Semantic; Serial order recall; Seriation; Signifiers; Source misattribution; Specification cues; Spreading activation models; Subset link; Subset-relation hypothesis; Superordinate concept; Syntactic relations; Themes; Time-of-occurrence information; Time-slice errors; Transposition error; Working memory; Yerkes-Dodson Law
288 p. · 15x22.8 cm · Hardback
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While memory research has recently focused on brain images and neurological underpinnings of transmitters, Human Memory: A Constructivist View assesses how our individual identity affects what we remember, why and how. This book brings memory back to the constructivist questions of how all the experiences of an individual, up to the point of new memory input, help to determine what that person pays attention to, how that information is interpreted, and how all that ultimately affects what goes into memory and how it is stored. This also affects what can be recalled later and what kind of memory distortions are likely to occur.
The authors describe constructionist theories of memory, what they predict, how this is borne out in research findings, presenting everyday life examples for better understanding of the material and interest. Intended for memory researchers and graduate level courses, this book is an excellent summary of human memory research from the constructivist perspective.
1 – Links and Cues
2 – Spreading Activation
3 – Processing Structures
4 – Constructivism
5 – Personal Memory
6 – Piaget's Model
7 – Altered Memories
8 – Dissociative Memory, Variables that Influence Reconstruction and Propositional Coding
9 – Memory and Emotion
10 - Memory and Schemas
Appendix A - Types of Links in Memory
Appendix B - Interference and Forgetting
Researchers in memory, professors teaching a graduate course in memory
- Defines constructivist theory in memory research
- Assesses research findings relative to constructivist predictions
- Identifies how personal experience dictates attention, interpretation, and storage
- Integrates constructivist based findings with cognitive neuroscience
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