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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|125 pages
Knowledge-Based and Appraisal Models of Everyday and Emotional Memory
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
chapter 11|28 pages
Trauma and Memory
part IV|33 pages
Psychological Issues in Eyewitness Testimony
chapter 13|16 pages
Adult Perceptions of Children's Memory for the Traumatic Event of Sexual Abuse
part V|77 pages
Developmental Perspectives on Eyewitness Testimony
chapter 17|25 pages
Confusing Real and Suggested Memories:
part VI|40 pages
Commentaries