Beschreibung:
This volume is the first to describe how well we maintain the complex knowledge we acquire over several years and retain during the entire life-span. It will be of interest to researchers in human memory, developmental psychologists, gerontologists in academic and applied settings, and educators.
1. A Historical Perspective. 2. The Ohio Wesleyan Memory Research Program. 3. Acquisition and Maintenance of Knowledge. 4. Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Investigations of Overlearning. 5. Fluctuations of Access to Marginal Knowledge. 6. Initial Investigations of Age-related Access to Knowledge. 7. Larger Scale Investigations of Age-Related Access to Naturalistically Acquired Knowledge. 8. Distortions of Knowledge. 9. Summing Up.