Human Memory: The Processing of Information

✍ Scribed by Geoffrey R. Loftus, Elizabeth F. Loftus

• Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum / Routledge
• Year: 1976
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 192
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Over the past 20 years, the study of human memory has become an increasingly popular topic of study for psychologists, and since the late 1960s a new framework for studying memory has begun to take shape. It is the purpose of this book to present a broad overview of this framework, including descriptions of (1) the major theoretical components of the framework and (2) the critical research findings that justify the establishment of these components and illuminate the mechanisms by which they operate. The book is not meant to constitute an exhaustive review of the enormous research literature that has accrued over the years. The authors deliberately avoid wading into masses of detail on any given topic area, and we deliberately sidestep a number of current theoretical controversies. Instead, this book has been planned to be a guide and an introduction for the student or interested layman with little or no background in the area of memory as a field of psychological inquiry.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Preface
1: Introduction
The Information-Processing Approach
A Model of Memory
2: Sensory Store
Iconic Store
Echoic Store
Type of Information Stores in Sensory Store
Transfer of Information from Sensory Store to Short-Term Store
Summary
3: Short-Term Store
Rationale for a Dichotomous Memory
Forgetting from Short-Term Store
Capacity of Short-Term Store
Form of Information Stored in Short-Term Store
Retrieval of Information from Short-Term Store
Summary
4: Long-Term Memory for New Material
Entry of Information into Long-Term Store: Rehearsal
Maintenance Rehearsal versus Elaborative Rehearsal
Organization
Type of Information in Long-Term Store
Forgetting from Long-Term Store
Forgetting as Retrieval Failure
Retrieval Failure versus Interference Theory: One Possible Test
Summary
5: Recognition Memory
Types of Recognition Tests
Recall versus Recognition: Level of Performance
Other Recall–Recognition Differences
Theories of Recognition Memory
Summary
6: Long-Term Memory for Meaningful Material
Form versus Meaning
Reconstructive Processes
Summary
7: Semantic Memory
Retrieval of Information from Semantic Memory
Models of Semantic Memory
Semantic Memory: A Final Comment
Summary
8: Practical Applications
Cognitive Tasks as Diagnostic Tests
Education
Human Engineering
Law
Summary
References
Author Index
Subject Index