Intentional Forgetting

by Golding, Jonathan M.; Macleod, Colin M.

• ISBN13: 9780805822120
• ISBN10: 0805822127
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-08-01
• Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc Inc

Summary

This volume examines the phenomena--long questioned by memory researchers--of directed forgetting in humans and animals, and in contexts that are both basic and applied (social, forensic, and clinical). For all psychologists interested in memory.

Table of Contents

Preface
Directed Forgetting	p. 1
There's More to Intentional Forgetting Than Directed Forgetting: An Integrative Review	p. 59
Varieties of Goal-Directed Forgetting	p. 103
Directed Forgetting: A Contrast of Methods and Interpretations	p. 139
Directed Forgetting and Rehearsal on Direct and Indirect Memory Tests	p. 173
An Illusion of Retrieval Inhibition: Directed Forgetting and Implicit Memory	p. 197
Disregarding Information in Text	p. 219
Directed Forgetting in Pigeons	p. 239
A Critical Analysis of Directed-Forgetting Research in Animals	p. 265
Consequences of Attempts to Disregard Social Information	p. 289
Suspicion and Discounting: Ignoring Invalid Information in an Uncertain Environment	p. 321
Disregarding Social Stereotypes: Implications for Memory, Judgment, and Behavior	p. 349
Instructions to Disregard Potentially Useful Unshared Information in a Group Context	p. 369
Intentional Forgetting and Clinical Disorders	p. 395
Instructions to Disregard and the Jury: Curative and Paradoxical Effects	p. 413
"The Jury Will Disregard ...": A Brief Guide to Inadmissible Evidence	p. 435
Intentional Forgetting in Perspective: Comments, Conjectures, and Some Directed Remembering	p. 453
Author Index	p. 483
Subject Index	p. 495
Table of Contents provided by Blackwell. All Rights Reserved.