Remembering the personal past : descriptions of autobiographical memory

Summary: The impetus for this book is the belief that a comprehensive description of autobiographical memory in both form and function must be an eclectic, interdisciplinary endeavour. Unlike cognitive and experimental psychologists, who have conducted most of their work in laboratories and have been concerned with rote memory tasks, Ross looks at motivation and emotion as components of human memory and assembles a diverse body of sources that have heretofore been ignored by psychologists in their study of memory. He organizes his discussions along three lines of inquiry: (1) the subjective or experimental dimension of autobiographical memory, (2) the early development and later recall of childhood memories, and (3) social, historical, and folkloric perspectives on autobiographical retention. Rich and original scope, this work calls on the names of James, Titchener, Freud, Piaget, Baldwin, Janet, Proust, Sartre, Bergson, Russell, Strauss, and Merleau-Ponty, among others, to broaden our current understanding of the experience of autobiographical memory.

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ISBN: 0195068947
ISBN: 9781423736585
ISBN: 9781280440885
ISBN: 9780195361629
ISBN: 9780195068948
ISBN: 1423736583
ISBN: 1280440880
ISBN: 0195361628
ISBN: 0195068947
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xii, 244 pages)
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Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1991.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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