This textbook has been updated and extended to include recent research in allareas of everyday memory. The controversy about the value of naturalisticresearch a... » 

This textbook has been updated and extended to include recent research in allareas of everyday memory. The controversy about the value of naturalisticresearch as opposed to traditional laboratory methods is outlined and theviews of both critics and defenders are put forward. The trend towardconvergence of the two approaches is evaluated. This book brings togetherstudies on many different topics such as memory for plans and actions fornames and faces for routes and maps conversations and storiesautobiographical experiences and childhood events. Further chapters focus onmemory for general knowledge and for specialist domains such as music chessand computer programming. Emphasis is also given to memory for internal mentalevents such as thoughts and dreams. False memory syndrome memory for healthevents and social remembering are covered. This new edition spells out thelinks between naturalistic and applied studies and the models and theoriesthat support them. It shows how theoretical frameworks such as schemasscripts mental models and production systems and concepts such as encodingspecificity implicit memory and rulebased and casebased reasoning are neededto explain and interpret the findings and observations derived from the studyof memory in the real world. «