Distinctiveness and memory
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Distinctiveness and memory
Oxford University Press, 2006
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Contents of Works
- Basic issues
- Bizarreness
- Distinctiveness and implicit memory tests
- Distinctiveness and memory across the life span
- Distinctiveness in the social context
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The basic laboratory technique for studying distinctiveness effect in memory is the isolation paradigm, a simple test in which a list of items is presented for memorisation. All items except one are similar in some way. The different item always occurs late in the list, to allow the similarity of the precedingitems to establish a context. Subsequent memory for the different item is always better than for the similar items. In 1948, Jenkins and Postman offered the
intuitive-differential attention explanation to account for this difference in memory, that an item is remembered because it catches the subject's attention by violating the established context, so leads the subject to devote additional processing to it. It is this additional processing that accounts
for enhanced memory. Since 1948, succeeding theories have accepted and perpetuated their explanation. In fact, the isolation effect and the intuitive explanation have applied to most other memory phenomena that fall under the rubric of bizarreness, salience and novelty. The contributors to the proposed volume argue that the intuitive-differential-attention explanation and theories following from it are incorrect. The purpose of the volume is to test these currently accepted theories by
contrasting them with the results of current research on the processes supporting them. The result is a much needed restructuring of the theories.
Table of Contents
- I BASIC ISSUES
- II BIZARRENESS
- III DISTINCTIVENESS AND IMPLICIT MEMORY TESTS
- IV DISTINCTIVENESS AND MEMORY ACROSS THE LIFE SPAN
- V DISTINCTIVENESS IN THE SOCIAL CONTEXT
- VI THE NEUROSCIENCE OF DISTINCTIVENESS AND MEMORY
- VII DENOUEMENT
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