Skill and Strategy in Memory Use - Advances in Research and Theory

Zusammenfassung Discusses strategies people use in responding to memory queries - whether and how to access memory and how to translate retrieved products into responses. This volume provides an integrative view of memory, metamemory, judgment and decision-making, and individual differences. It is relevant to both applied concerns and basic research.

List of contents

Chapter 1
The Strategic Regulation of Memory Accuracy and Informativeness
Chapter 2
Response Bias in Recognition Memory
Chapter 3
What Constitutes a Model of Item-Based Memory Decisions?
Chapter 4
Prospective Memory and Metamemory: The Skilled Use of Basic Attentional and Memory Processes
Chapter 5
Memory is More Than Just Remembering: Strategic Control of Encoding, Accessing Memory, and Making Decisions
Chapter 6
The Adaptive and Strategic Use of Memory by Older Adults: Evaluative Processing and Value-Directed Remembering
Chapter 7
Experience is a Double-Edged Sword: A Computational Model of the Encoding/Retrieval Tradeoff with Familiarity
Chapter 8
Towards an Understanding of Individual Differences in Episodic Memory: Modeling the Dynamics of Recognition Memory
Chapter 9
The Role of Long-Term Working Memory in the Structure and Acquisition of Expert Performance

Product details

• Authors: Aaron S. (EDT)/ Ross Benjamin
• Assisted by: Aaron S. Benjamin (Editor), Brian H. Ross (Editor)
• Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.11.2007
• EAN: 9780123736079
• ISBN: 978-0-12-373607-9
• No. of pages: 410
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 241 mm x 32 mm
• Series: Psychology of Learning & Motiv; Psychology of Learning and Motivation; Psychology of Learning & Motiv
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Applied psychology