1st Edition

Principles of Learning and Memory

By Robert G. Crowder Copyright 1976
540 Pages
by Psychology Press

First published in 1976. This volume presents an organised review of the concepts that guide current study of learning and memory. The organisation is theoretical rather than historical or methodological, and as the ideas that experimental psychologists take seriously are usually anchored in some form or empirical accountability, it also includes data as well as theory.

Preface, 1Background Comments and Three Analytic Concepts, 2Iconic Memory, 3Echoic Memory, 4Recoding by Speech in Short-Term Memory, 5Nonverbal Memory, 6Primary Memory, 7Forgetting in Short-Term Memory, 8The Interference Theory of Forgetting in Long-Term Memory, 9The Effects of Repetition on Memory, 10The Organization of Memory in Free Recall, 11Retrieval, 12Serial Organization in Learning and Memory, References, Author Index, Subject Index

Biography

Robert G. Crowder, Yale University