ABSTRACT
Our discussion of memory theories and memory models has made it clear that an adequate theory of human memory requires a comprehensive theory of human psychological functioning. As several memory theorists have discovered (Neisser, 1967; Reitman, 1970), neither memory registration nor recall can be explained apart from other cognitive functions. Indeed, they cannot be explained apart from the whole complex of psychological functions, just as the neural substrate of memory cannot be sketched apart from the functioning of the brain in other psychological activities. The realization that memory must be seen in the context of other cognitive functions has led Neisser and Reitman to insist that remembering is a problem-solving activity, similar to all other instances of problem-solving.
