Human Memory

Basic Processes

Gordon H. Bower

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9780121210502
• eBook ISBN: 9781483264905
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Cognitive Psychology & Cognition
• Index: Psychology

Human Memory: Basic Processes provides information pertinent to the fundamental aspects of human memory. This book provides a general theoretical framework for human memory, information processing, and retrieval. Organized into seven chapters, this book begins with an overview of the permanent features of memory. This text then outlines several experimental findings that support a multiple-store model of memory, with emphasis on the free recall with extension made to other recall tasks. Other chapters describe the results of a number of experiments designed to test specific models that can be obtained from the overall theory. This book discusses as well the permanent, structural features of the memory system. The final chapter deals with the representation of the memory trace of an event in terms that are compatible with the multicomponent theory. This book is a valuable resource for advanced students in experimental psychology. Psychological researchers will also find this book useful.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Human Memory: Basic Processes
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of Contributors
• Preface
• Commentary on "Human Memory: A Proposed System and Its Control Processes "
• Chapter 1. HUMAN MEMORY: A PROPOSED SYSTEM AND ITS CONTROL PROCESSES
• Chapter 2. Commentary on "Storage Mechanisms in Recall"
• STORAGE MECHANISMS IN RECALL
• Chapter 3. Commentary on "Working Memory"
• WORKING MEMORY
• 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
• Chapter 5. Commentary on "Organization and Memory"
• ORGANIZATION AND MEMORY
• Chapter 6. Commentary on "Elaborative Strategies in Verbal Learning and Memory"
• ELABORATIVE STRATEGIES IN VERBAL LEARNING AND MEMORY
• Chapter 7. Commentary on "The Multicomponent Theory of the Memory Trace"
• A MULTICOMPONENT THEORY OF THE MEMORY TRACE
• Index