Human Memory [Paperback]

Ian Neath (Author), Aimee Surprenant (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 3, 2002 | ISBN-10: 0534595626 | ISBN-13: 978-0534595623 | Edition: 2

This book balances coverage of theory, research, and data in order to promote a more complete understanding of how human memory works. The book strikes a balance between historically significant findings and current research. Actual experiments, both paper and pencil and online demonstrations, are included to help students see the link between theory and data.

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About the Author

Ian Neath is currently an associate professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. He received his Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from Yale University in 1991. At Purdue, he regularly teaches both the undergraduate and graduate courses on human memory, as well as courses on introductory psychology, cognitive psychology, and simulation modeling. He has published many articles on memory in professional journals and co-authored the textbook HUMAN MEMORY: AN INTRODUCTION TO RESEARCH, DATA, AND THEORY, 2nd, also published by Wadsworth.

Product Details

• Paperback: 500 pages
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing; 2 edition (December 3, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0534595626
• ISBN-13: 978-0534595623
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.3 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #417,462 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Reads like a stream of consciousness novel, October 31, 2007

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Robert Johnson (Port Jefferson, NY United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Human Memory (Paperback)

This book covers a great deal of research in memory by condensing each paper into a 1-2 paragraph summary. As a result, the writing is often vague and confusing. Making matters worse, the book seems to be a rough draft published without the benefit of an editor. The sentences are convoluted, terms are poorly defined and used inconsistently, and the material is disorganized. There is no unifying framework for understanding all the research results presented. The lack of organization makes it unsuitable even as a reference.

In short, this book has nothing to recommend it.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars ?, September 15, 2006

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John "Psych Student" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Human Memory (Paperback)

Although I am a psych student with a pretty good GPA, I find this book difficult to understand. The difficulty seems to come from the authors' desire to condense as much information as possible in just a few hundred pages. This leads to a cryptic language, where some terms are defined only once and some sentences become a string of such words, a thing which ,personally, frustrated me.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not recommended., July 2, 2007

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UCD student (Davis, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Human Memory (Paperback)

This book is poorly written, and I found some parts to be repetitive. Although I normally do well in my undergraduate psychology classes, I found this book dreadful to read through, as the author doesn't write in a way that would make the concepts easier to understand. It's just not concise as the other psych books I've gone through. A dry read.