Memory: Foundations and Applications covers key memory models, theories, and experiments while demonstrating how students can apply these concepts to their everyday lives to improve their own ability to learn and remember. Neuroscience research is integrated throughout each chapter to demonstrate our understanding of where memory processes occur and how researchers use data to shape memory theories. The new
Fifth Edition includes research updates throughout, attention to individual, cross-linguistic, and cross-cultural differences, and support with how to assess evidence while minimizing personal bias to help students evaluate claims.
Tabella dei contenuti
Section 1: Memory and Processes of Memory
Chapter 1: Introduction to the Study of Memory
Chapter 2: Neuroscience of Memory
Chapter 3: Working Memory
Chapter 4: Episodic Memory
Chapter 5: Semantic Memory
Section 2: Advanced Topics in Memory
Chapter 6: Autobiographical Memory
Chapter 7: False Memory
Chapter 8: Prospective Memory and Metamemory
Chapter 9: Memory and Development
Section 3: Applications of Memory Research
Chapter 10: Brain-Based Amnesia and Alzheimer’s Disease
Chapter 11: Memory and Clinical Disorders
Chapter 12: Applications 1: Legal Psychology
Chapter 13: Applications 2: Memory Improvement and Learning Efficiency
Circa l’autore
Bennett L. Schwartz received his Ph D in 1993 from Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. Sincethen he has been at Florida International University (FIU) in Miami, Florida, where he is currently professorof psychology. He is author or editor of 10 published books as well as over 70 journal articles andchapters. His textbook Memory: Foundations and Applications, fourth edition (SAGE), was published in2020. He has won several teaching awards at FIU and currently teaches courses in memory, cognition, and sensation and perception. His main research area is metacognition and memory, but he has alsoconducted research in diverse areas that range from visual perception to evolutionary psychology, tothe language of thought, and to memory in nonhuman primates. Schwartz currently serves as the editorin chief of New Ideas in Psychology.
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