ISBN:
9781848724099
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (319 p)
Series Statement:
Psychology Library Editions: Memory
Parallel Title:
Print version Person Memory (PLE: Memory)
DDC:
302
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Originally published in 1980, this title came about after many late night discussions between the authors during a 3-week workshop on Mathematical Approaches to Person Perception in 1974. In subsequent meetings a mutual interest emerged in the development of cognitive information processing metaphors for human thought and their application to problems of social perception, memory and judgment. Within the context of modern research on social cognition, the most distinctive aspects of the authors' work was its empirical focus on how people cognitively represent people in memory, and its theoreti
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; 1. Theoretical Issues in Person Memory; Preliminaries; Conceptual Social Memory; Social Event Memory; Concluding Remarks; Overview of Individual Chapters; 2. Cognitive Organization of Person Impressions; The Study of Impression Organization in Social Psychology; Cognitive Analysis of Impression Organization; The Influence of Themes on Memory; The Influence of Themes on Judgments; General Discussion; 3. Events, Inferences, and Impression Formation
Description / Table of Contents:
Inference Recall and Its EffectsThe Effects of Episode Type on Inference Formation; Further Evidence on the Effects of Inferences; Inference Formation and Inference Testing; Summary and Conclusions; 4. Organizational Processes in Impression Formation; What Is an ""Impression""?; Conceptual Orientation; Experimental Paradigm; Research Findings; Current Status and Perspective; 5. Memory for Behavioral Information that Confirms or Contradicts a Personality Impression; Empirical Findings; Theoretical Discussion; 6. Cognitive Processes in Understanding Ongoing Behavior
Description / Table of Contents:
Encoding the Stream of BehaviorThe Role of Storage Processes; Encoding and Retrieval Processes; General Discussion; Summary; 7. The Processing of Social Stimulus Information: A Conceptual Integration; A Preliminary Model of Social Information Processing; The Cognitive Representation of Social Stimuli; Effects of Encoding and Organization of Stimulus Information on Judgments; Concluding Remarks; Author Index; Subject Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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