Introduction. Sensory registers: visual and acoustic stores. Primary memory. The role of rehearsal. Memory consolidation. Principles of forgetting: interference and altered stimulus conditions. Evidence for encoding on multiple dimensions. Memory for frequency of events. Distribution of practice. Recall, recognition and relearning. Metamemory: knowing about knowing. Levels of processing. Mnemonics. Constructive and reconstructive processes in memory. Individual differences in remembering. Appendix. References. Name index. Subject index.
