Life-span maintenance of knowledge
This volume describes how well we maintain the knowledge we acquire throughout life. Research traditionally focuses on memory for events that are retained over short time periods that can be accommodated in experiments. This book, by contrast, uniquely describes the evolution of methods suitable for...
| Otros Autores: | , , |
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York ; East Sussex, England :
Psychology Press
c2013.
New York : 2013. |
| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Colección: | Essays in cognitive psychology
Essays in Cognitive Psychology |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798204206719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Life-Span Maintenance of Knowledge; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; About the Authors; Preface; Chapter 1 An Historical Perspective; Chapter 2 The Ohio Wesleyan Memory Research Program; Chapter 3 Acquisition and Maintenance of Knowledge; Chapter 4 Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Investigations of Overlearning; Chapter 5 Fluctuations of Access to Marginal Knowledge; Chapter 6 Initial Investigations of Age-Related Access to Knowledge; Chapter 7 Larger Scale Investigations of Age-Related Access to Naturalistically Acquired Knowledge; Chapter 8 Distortions of Knowledge
- Chapter 9 Summing UpAppendix A Stabilization of Preventive and Corrective Interventions for Younger and Older Adults; Appendix B The Effects of Cognitive Aging on Recalling Familiar Memory Content: The Role of Contextual Cues; Appendix C Metacognitive Judgment and Age-Related Access to Marginal Content; Appendix D The Accessibility/Availability Ratio: A Metric to Compare Access to Knowledge Across Age Groups and Content Domains; Appendix E The Effect of Cognitive Aging on Access to Foreign Language Vocabulary; Appendix F The Effect of Cognitive Aging on Access to Names of Prominent People
- ReferencesAuthor Index; Subject Index
