ABSTRACT

The nature of memory for everyday events, and the contexts that can affect it, are controversial topics being investigated by researchers in cognitive, social, clinical, and developmental/lifespan psychology today. This book brings many of these researchers together in an attempt to unpack the contextual and processing variables that play a part in everyday memory, particularly for emotion-laden events. They discuss the mental structures and processes that operate in the formation of memory representations and their later retrieval and interpretation.

part II|97 pages

Perceptual and Verbal Processes in Everyday Memory

part III|78 pages

Studies of Emotional and Painful Memories

chapter 10|28 pages

Making Everyday Events Emotional

The Construal of Emotion in Parent-Child Conversations About the Past

chapter 11|28 pages

Trauma and Memory

Individual Differences in Children's Recounting of a Stressful Experience

part IV|33 pages

Psychological Issues in Eyewitness Testimony

chapter 14|15 pages

Lying and Deception

part V|77 pages

Developmental Perspectives on Eyewitness Testimony

part VI|40 pages

Commentaries

chapter 19|7 pages

Memory As Knowledge-Based Inference

Two Observations

chapter 20|14 pages

Children's Eyewitness Memory Research

Implications From Schema Memory and Autobiographical Memory Research