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The Handbook of Research Methods in Human Memory presents a collection of chapters on methodology used by researchers in investigating human memory. Understanding the basic cognitive function of human memory is critical in a wide variety of fields, such as clinical psychology, developmental psychology, education, neuroscience, and gerontology, and studying memory has become particularly urgent in recent years due to the prominence of a number of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's. However, choosing the most appropriate method of research is a daunting task for most scholars. This book explores the methods that are currently available in various areas of human memory research and serves as a reference manual to help guide readers'own research. Each chapter is written by prominent researchers and features cutting-edge research on human memory and cognition, with topics ranging from basic memory processes to cognitive neuroscience to further applications. The focus here is not on the'what,'but the'how'—how research is best conducted on human memory.

8. 2. Methode............................................ 99 8. 3. Ergebnisse......................................... 102 8. 3. 1. Itemschwierigkeiten............................. 102 83. 2. Gedächtnisleistungen............................. 102 833. Fehlerverteilungen.............................. 107 83. 4. Modellvergleiche................................ 111 8. 4. Diskussion......................................... 113 9. Versuch III: Einfluß von'wahrscheinlichstem','unwahrscheinlichstem'und'zufälligem'Fehler als Abrutbilfe............................ 115 9. 1. Problemstellung..................................... 115 9. 2. Methode........................................... 117 93. Ergebnisse......................................... 119 9. 3. 1. Nutzung der Abrutbilfe........................... 119 9. 3. 2. Gedächtnisleistung.............................. 120 933. Fehlerverteilungen.............................. 121 933. 1. Fehlerverteilung als Transformation des Targets (TA) 123 93. 3. 2. Fehler als Transformationen der Abrutbilfe (H).... 126 9. 4. Diskussion......................................... 132 10. Versuch IV: Wiedererkennungswahrscheinlichkeiten für Transformat- nen.................................................. 134 10. 1. Problemstellung.................................... 134 10. 2. Methode.......................................... 135 103. Ergebnisse........................................ 137 103. 1. Gedächtnisleistung............................. 137 10. 3. 2. Fehleranalyse................................. 139 10. 4. Diskussion........................................ 143 9 11. Theoretische und methodologische Reflexionen.................. 145 11. 1. Zusammenfassung der zentralen Ergebnisse................ 145 11. 2. Diskussion ausgewählter methodischer Probleme............ 147 11. 3. Abschließende allgemeine Einordnung der Ergebnisse........ 150 12. Gesamtzusammenfassung 153 Anhang.................................................. 158 Literaturverzeichnis......................................... 170 10 Einleitung Auf den ersten Blick ist eine Deftnition des'Fehlers'in der Gedächtnisforschung unproblematisch. Ob eine Antwort'richtig'oder'falsch'ist, wird durch den Ver­ gleich zwischen dem Ereignis, das in der Lemphase eines Gedächtnisexperiments angeeignet wurde, und der Antwort der Versuchsperson in der Prüfphase bestimmt. Als Fehler gilt jede Nicht-Übereinstimmung zwischen dem Original und dem Er­ innerungsprodukt.

Everyday Memory and Aging is a comprehensive handbook which touches virtually every aspect of current everyday memory research and methodology as they relate to aging. This book demonstrates that the results of divergent approaches to the study of everyday memory and aging frequently dovetail, and it widens significantly the scope of investigation and know- ledge in the field.

The first textbook on research methods and methodological questions in the field This guide provides students and researchers with a clear set of outlines and discussions of particular methods of research in memory studies. It offers not only expert appraisals of a range of techniques, approaches and perspectives, but also focuses on key questions of methodology in order to help bring unity and coherence to this new field of study. Key Features: Investigating community remembering and memory in personal narratives Exploring the localisation of official national memory, and the contribution of different memoryscapes and different regimes of memory to cultural heritage Attending to painful pasts and disrupted memory Examining how memory is achieved and communicated in everyday interaction, and how it is manifested in emergent ethnicities Focusing on the production of social memory in the media and the use of media as self-produced vehicles of memory Analysing the dynamics of remembering in public confessions and apologias, and in testimonies offered by Holocaust survivors

Handbook of Research Methods in Human Memory and Cognition is a compilation of critical examinations of major contemporary research methods in the area of human memory and cognition. The book covers topics that are defined in terms of experimental tasks and materials, aiming to introduce newcomers to the range of methodologies available and allow flexibility of choices for established investigators on how to attack the problem. Recognition memory, free-recall, and prose memory are discussed in detail. Psychologists and researchers in allied fields will find the book a good reference material.