Human memory basic processes /

Other Authors: Bower, Gordon H.,, ScienceDirect (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: New York : Academic Press, 1977.
Physical Description: 1 online resource (ix, 549 pages) : graphs.
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover; List of Contributors; Human Memory: Basic Processes; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Commentary on ""Human Memory: A Proposed System and Its Control Processes ""; Chapter 1. HUMAN MEMORY: A PROPOSED SYSTEM AND ITS CONTROL PROCESSES; I. Introduction; II. Structural Features of the Memory System; III. Control Processes in Memory; IV. Experiments Concerned with Short-Term Processes; V. Experiments Concerned with Long-Term Search and Retrieval; VI. Concluding Remarks; References; Chapter 2. Commentary on ""Storage Mechanisms in Recall""; Further Work from Our Laboratory.
  • Work by Other InvestigatorsCriticism of Multiple-Store Models and Proposed Alternatives; References; STORAGE MECHANISMS IN RECALL; I. Introduction; II. Interactions with the Serial Position Curve; III. Estimation of STS; IV. Details of the Storage Process; V. Mnemonically Related Words; VI. Repeated Words; VII. Relation of Free Recall and the Model to Other Memory Tasks; VIII. Fixed-Order Recall; IX. Evaluation of Other Findings; X. General Characteristics of STS; XI. Relation of STS to Language Processing; XII. Closing Statement; References; Chapter 3. Commentary on ""Working Memory""
  • ConsolidationExtension to Other Problems; Applications of the Working Memory Concept; References; WORKING MEMORY; I. Introduction; II. The Search for a Common Working Memory System; III. A Proposed Working Memory System; IV. The Nature of the Recency Effect; V. Concluding Remarks; References; Chapter 4. Commentary on ""Reaction Time Measurements in the Study of Memory Processes: Theory and Data""; REACTION TIME MEASUREMENTS IN THE STUDY OF MEMORY PROCESSES: THEORY AND DATA; I. Introduction; II. Self-Terminating Memory Scanning Model; III. Experimental Tests of the Model.
  • IV. Summary and ConclusionsReferences; Chapter 5. Commentary on ""Organization and Memory""; The Major Findings Are Consolidated and Extended; Some Critics Are Confounded; We Are Surprised and Find Retrieval Processes in Recognition; Looking Backwards and Ahead; References; ORGANIZATION AND MEMORY; I. The Concept of Organization; II. The Limits of Memory and the Unitization Hypothesis; III. Clustering: The Organization of Recall.; IV. Subjective Organization; V. Free and Constrained Conceptualization; VI. The Category-Recall Function; VII. The Organization of Memory; References.
  • Chapter 6. Commentary on ""Elaborative Strategies in Verbal Learning and Memory""ELABORATIVE STRATEGIES IN VERBAL LEARNING AND MEMORY; I. Introduction; II. General Orientation-A Memory Model; III. Ss' Control of the Transfer of Information into LTS; IV. Summary and Conclusions; References; Chapter 7. Commentary on ""The Multicomponent Theory of the Memory Trace""; A MULTICOMPONENT THEORY OF THE MEMORY TRACE; I. Introduction; II. Forgetting of Component Information; III. New Experiments on Recall; IV. Recognition Memory; V. Related Aspects of Recall Performance.