Working Memories

Postmen, Divers and the Cognitive Revolution

Alan Baddeley

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN: 9781138646346
• eBook ISBN: 9781317238522
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Cognitive Psychology & Cognition
• Index: Psychology

Technological developments during the Second World War led to an approach that linked ideas from computer science to neuroscience, linguistics, philosophy and psychology, known today as the Cognitive Revolution. Leaving behind traditional behaviourist approaches popular at the time, psychology began to utilise artificial intelligence and computer science to develop testable theories and design groundbreaking new experiments. The Cognitive Revolution dramatically changed the way that psychological research and studies were conducted and proposed a new way of thinking about the mind.

In Working Memories, Alan Baddeley, one of the world's leading authorities on Human Memory, draws on his own personal experience of this time, recounting the radical development of a pioneering science in parallel with his own transatlantic, vibrant and distinguished career.

Detailing the excitement and sometimes frustration experienced in taking psychology into the world beyond the laboratory, Working Memories presents unique insights into the mind and psychological achievements of one of the most influential psychologists of our time.

INDEX

A-B reasoning test 72–3, 78

accelerated long-term forgetting 336

accurate perception 36

acoustic coding 101, 103; vs. semantic coding 112–13; specificity of 100; see also coding

acoustic memory: system 102; trace 64

acoustic similarity effect 98, 100, 101, 103, 158, 160

acquired dyslexia 237

activated long-term memory 331

Adolfson, John 76

Advanced Level Exams 8

agoraphobia 310

Alcock, Katie 298

alcoholic Korsakoff syndrome 119, 120, 126, 229

Allen, Richard 321–2, 334

Alzheimer’s disease 258

Ames, Adelbert, “transactionalists” 37

Ames room 37–8

Amis, Kingsley 26

amnesia: anterograde 228–9; case study 119–20, 123–4, 126, 228, 231; encoding semantically, failure to 122; episodic memories, accumulation of 293–4; influential evidence 119; lack of memory 119–20; long-term vs. short-term memory systems 120–1, 124–5; memory registration 120; modal model of 292–4; Peterson task 122–3; preservation in 125–6; principles 120; retrograde 228–9; sequences 119; testing 117–18, 121; types of learning 127; verbal/visual recall tests 292–3

amnesic syndrome 118, 127, 218, 336

anaesthesia: 210–12

anarchic hand sign 318

Anderson, John 54, 143–4

anterograde amnesia 228–9

anti-parasitic drug treatment 295

anxiety 309; clinical research on 312; and depression 312–13; effect of 311; hypothesis test 75; influence of 309; level of 311; prominent feature of 312; substantial differences in 310–11; symptoms 312

Applied Psychology Unit (APU) 40, 59–60, 202; administrative responsibilities 187; advantages 184; appointments 180–2; change in 177; collaboration 178–9; combined basic and applied research 179; education and the opportunities 183–4; MRC system 1...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication Page
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Further Reading
• Leeds 1934–53
• London 1953–56
• Princeton – Los Angeles 1956–57
• Leeds and Bristol 1957–58
• Cambridge 1958–67
• Sussex 1967–72
• San Diego 1970–71
• Returning to Sussex 1971–72
• Stirling 1972–74
• Cambridge 1974–95
• Cambridge and Texas to Bristol 1990–2003
• Stanford 2001–02
• Returning to Yorkshire 2003
• Index