The last decade has seen a major growth in research on how memory
is used in everyday life. This volume represents a reaction to
traditional laboratory-bound studies of the first half of the
century which sought to identify the fundamental principles of
learning and memory through the use of materials and methods
totally divorced from the real world. The new wave of memory
research has had considerable success in charting how memory
develops, the role it plays in educational and social skills and
the impact of memory impairment on mental life. The current volume
consists of authoritative reviews of this emerging area linked to
comment and criticism from major researchers in the field.
Contrasted, probably for the first time, are two major styles of
research in applied memory research: The "naturalistic approach,"
which has sought to study memory in everyday environments, using
actual experiences from people's lives as the raw data from which
to derive more general principles, and the "applied cognitive
approach," whereby theories and methods are developed using
orthodox laboratory techniques which are then validated by applying
them directly to real phenomena. This is one of the few books to
bring together evidence across the very wide spectrum of humdrum
activity that constitutes the everyday uses of memory.
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