Remembering Reconsidered
Ecological and Traditional Approaches to the Study of Memory
Published on 24. June 1988
Book
Hardback
404 pages
978-0-521-33031-2 (ISBN)
Description
In Remembering Reconsidered, the new ecologically oriented study of memory makes contact with more traditional approaches. The emerging result may be what several of the authors have begun to call 'functionalism': a concern with the adaptive significance of memory in ordinary life coupled with a careful analysis of the variables on which it depends. In different ways, the chapters reflect this concern. The editors bring together a diverse collection of studies on remembering, using subjects ranging from folk songs to 'crib talk'. Introductory chapters weave these themes together, developing an underlying sense of the project of the volume as a whole. This is the second volume in the Emory Symposia on Cognition. The Emory Cognition Project, directed by Ulric Neisser, emphasizes an ecological approach to problems in theoretical, experimental, and applied cognitive psychology.
Reviews / Votes
'As is demonstrated by Remembering Reconsidered, the ecological approach has clearly served the admirable purposes of expanding the scope of memory research and providing the psychological study of memory with a base in naturalistic observation that it lacked previously.' Science 'Remembering Reconsidered, shows how the ecological approach is significantly reshaping our ideas about the psychology of memory.' Contemporary Psychology 'The contributions to Remembering Reconsidered are of uniformly high quality and contain a wealth of new facts about manifestations of memory in various real-world contexts.' ScienceMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
804 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-33031-2 (9780521330312)
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Ulric Neisser | Eugene Winograd
Remembering Reconsidered
Ecological and Traditional Approaches to the Study of Memory
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Content
1. New vistas in the study of memory Ulric Neisser; 2. Continuities between ecological and laboratory approaches to memory Eugene Winograd; 3. Memory for randomly sampled autobiographical events William F. Brewer; 4. Ordinary everyday memories: Some of the things of which selves are made Craig R. Barclay and Peggy A. DeCooke; 5. Walking in our own footsteps: Autobiographical memory and reconstruction Robert N. McCauley; 6. Memory observed and memory unobserved Larry L. Jacoby; 7. The maintenance of marginal knowledge Harry P. Bahrick and Elizabeth Phelps; 8. The content and organization of autobiographical memories Lawrence W. Barsalou; 9. The ontogeny of memory for real events Katherine Nelson; 10. The functions of event memory: Some comments on Nelson and Barsalou Robyn Fivush; 11. 'The Wreck of the Old 97': A real event remembered in song Wanda T. Wallace and David C. Rubin; 12. Passive remembering Donald P. Spence; 13. Remembering without experiencing: Memory for reported events Steen F. Larsen; 14. What is ordinary memory the memory of? Ulric Neisser; 15. Go for the skill David C. Rubin; Indexes.