Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Share Memory 101 -- Chapter 1: Everything Is Memory -- Memory is Intrinsicaly Interesting -- Memory is Foundational -- Practical Applications -- Let's Get Started -- References -- Chapter 2: Nuts and Bolts: The Basics of Your Memory -- Not One Thing: Multiple Memory Measures -- Not One Thing: Encoding, Storage, and Retrieval -- Not One Thing: Multiple Stages -- Not One Thing: Multiple Components in Working Memory -- Not One Thing: Multiple Memory Systems in Long-Term Memory -- Not a Thing at All: Proces-Based Accounts of Memory -- Single Process Theories-Signal Detection Theory -- Dual Process Models -- Proof is in the Pudding: Functional Accounts of Memory -- Levels of Processing -- Encoding Specificity -- Conclusions -- Appendix -- References -- Chapter 3: Memory Illusions -- The Storehouse Metaphor -- Constructive/Reconstructive Theories of Memory -- How Memory Illusions are Created -- Schemas -- Scripts -- Postevent Information -- Other Sources of False Memories -- Memory Illusions and Consciousnes -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4: Who Done It? Memory and Eyewitness Identification -- Mistaken Identifications -- The Nature of the Identification Task -- System Variables and Estimator Variables -- Estimator Variables -- Situational Variables -- System Variables -- Making a Difference -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5: Remembering to Take the Cupcakes Out of the Oven: Prospective Memory -- The Nature and Structure of Prospective Memory -- Basic Theories of Event-Based Prospective Memory -- Preparatory Attention and Memory (PAM) Processes Model Versus Multiprocess Theory -- Multinomial Model of Prospective Memory -- Prospective Memory Diffusion Race (PMDR) Model -- Why Should You Care About Prospective Memory? -- Medication Adherence -- Air Traffic Control.

Prospective Person Memory -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 6: That's the Story of My Life: The Autobiographical Memory System -- Accuracy of Autobiographical Memories -- Autobiographical Memory in the Brain -- Autobiographical Memory Across the Lifespan -- Childhood Amnesia -- Reminiscence Bump -- Recency -- Functions of Autobiographical Memory -- Identity -- Directive -- Social -- References -- Chapter 7: Frozen in Time: Traumatic Memories -- Lay Traumatology Belief #1: Trauma Memories are "Burned" into the Brain -- Lay Traumatology Belief #2: Long-Term Psychological Harm is Inevitable After a Severe Trauma -- Lay Traumatology Belief #3: Traumatic Experiences are Often Initialy Represed yet Later Recoverable From Memory -- Case Studies -- Laboratory Evidence of Repression-Like Phenomena -- Caveats Regarding Repression-Like Patterns in Memory -- Middle Ground -- What Can We Do? -- Note -- References -- Chapter 8: Memory Loss: Amnesia and Other Memory Disorders -- The Amnestic Syndrome -- Psychogenic Amnesia -- Dissociative Identity Disorder -- Alzheimer's Disease -- Effects of Amnesia on the Integrity of the Self -- Effects of Amnesia on Interpersonal Relationships -- Amnesia Versus Forgetting -- References -- Chapter 9: Memory Is Everything: Having Superior Memory -- The Easy Ways -- The Hard Ways -- Rehearsal -- The "Memory Walk" or Method of Loci -- Chunking -- Enactment -- Distributed Versus Massed Practice -- Repeated Testing -- Write it Out -- Stop Taking Pictures! -- The As-Yet-Unknown Way -- Memory is All Right Just the Way it is -- References -- Index.