Memory/ Alan Baddeley, Michael W. Eysenck, Michael C. Anderson

I . What is memory?
Why do we need memory?
One memory or many?
Theories, maps, and models
How many kinds of memory?
Sensory memory
Short-term and working memory
Long-term memory
Everyday memory
Summary
Further reading
1. Short-term memory
Short-term and working memory:
What's the difference?
Memory span
Two kinds of memory?
Models of verbal short-term
memory
Competing theories of verbal
short-term memory
Visuo-spatial short-term memory
Summary
Further reading
3. Working memory
The multicomponent model
Imagery and the visuo-spatial
sketchpad
The central executive
The episodic buffer
Individual differences in working
memory
Theories of working memory
The neuroscience of working
memory
Summary
Further reading
4. Learning
Rate of learning
Distributed practice
Expanding retrieval
The importance of testing
The importance of feedback
Motivation to learn
Repetition and learning
Implicit learning
Learning and consciousness
Explaining implicit memory
Learning and the brain
Implicit learning in the brain
Summary
Further reading
5. Episodic memory:
Organizing and
remembering
Meaning and memory
Learning and predictability
Levels of processing
The limits of levels
Transfer-appropriate processing
Why is deeper coding better?
Organization and learning
Memory and the brain
Summary
Further reading
6. Semantic memory and
stored knowledge
Semantic memory vs. episodic
memory
Storing simple concepts
Organization of semantic memory
in the brain
Learning new concepts
Schemas
Summary
Further reading
7 Autobiographical memory
Why do we need autobiographical
memory?
Methods of study
A theory of autobiographical memory
Psychogenic amnesia
Organically based deficits in
autobiographical memory
Autobiographical memory and
the brain
Summary
Further reading
8. Retrieval
"On the tip of the tongue"
The retrieval process: general principles
Factors determining retrieval success
Context cues
Retrieval tasks
The importance of incidental context
in episodic memory retrieval
Recognition memory
Source monitoring
Summary
Further reading
9. Incidental forgetting
A remarkable memory
The fundamental fact of forgetting
On the nature of forgetting
Factors that discourage forgetting
Factors that encourage incidental
forgetting
A functional view of incidental
forgetting
Summary
Further reading
10. Motivated forgetting
Life is good, or memory makes it so
Terminology in research on
motivated forgetting
Factors that predict motivated
forgetting
Factors that predict memory recovery
Recovered memories of trauma:
instances of motivated forgetting?
Summary
Further reading
I I . Amnesia
Studying amnesia
Terminology
Anterograde amnesia
Theories of amnesia
Retrograde amnesia
Traumatic brain injury
Summary
Further reading
12. Memory in childhood
Memory in infants
Developmental changes in memory
during childhood
Autobiographical memory and
infantile amnesia
Children as witnesses
Summary
Further reading
13. Memory and aging
Working memory and aging
Aging and long-term memory
Theories of aging
The aging brain
Alzheimer's disease
Summary
Further reading
14. Eyewitness testimony
Major factors influencing
eyewitness accuracy
Remembering faces
Police procedures with eyewitnesses
From laboratory to courtroom
Summary
Further reading
15. Prospective memory
Assessing prospective memory
Why do plane crashes occur?
Types of prospective memory
Aging and prospective memory
Theoretical perspectives
Summary
Further reading
16. Improving your memory
Techniques to improve memory
Preparing for examinations
Summary
Further reading