Memory observed : remembering in natural contexts selections and commentary by Ulric Neisser.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Part I. The argument -- Memory : what are the important questions? / Ulric Neisser -- Part II. Remembering -- Flashbulb memories / Roger Brown and James Kulik -- The day they heard about Lincoln / F.W. Colegrove -- Snapshots or benchmarks? / Ulric Neisser -- A collection of moments / Esther Salaman -- An early memory from Goethe's autobiography / Sigmund Freud -- Childhood memories / Samuel Waldvogel -- Transformations of memory in everyday life / Marigold Linton -- Part III. Testifying -- Realistic experiments / William Stern -- Reconstruction of automobile destruction / Elizabeth F. Loftus and John C. Palmer -- Eyewitness testimony / Robert Buckhout -- Photographs and personal identification : a legal view / United States Supreme Court -- Memory for faces and the circumstances of encounter / Evan Brown, Kenneth Deffenbacher, William Sturgill -- John Dean's memory : a case study / Ulric Neisser -- Part IV. Forgetting -- Long-term memory for a common object / Raymond S. Nickerson and Marilyn Jager Adams -- Professor Sanford's morning prayer / Edmund Clarke Sanford -- Recalling previously held attitudes / George R. Goethals and Richard F. Reckman -- On memory and childhood amnesia / Ernest G. Schachtel -- Memory for a salient childhood event / Karen Sheingold and Yvette J. Tenney -- Parental recall of child-rearing practices / Lillian Cukier Robbins -- An improved questionnaire technique / Larry R. Squire and Pamela C. Slater -- A serial position effect in recall of United States Presidents / Henry L. Roediger III and Robert G. Crowder -- Part V. Performing -- Literacy and memory / Ulric Neisser -- Oral poetry in Yugoslavia / Albert B. Lord -- Tribal history in Liberia / Warren L. D'Azevedo -- Totemic knowledge in New Guinea / Gregory Bateson -- Literacy, cultural familiarity, and "intelligence" as determinants of story recall / Ernest Frederick Dube -- A Sherlockian experiment / Ulric Neisser and John A. Hupcey -- Very long-term memory for prose and verse / David C. Rubin -- The mnemonic feat of the "Shass Pollak" / George M. Stratton -- Pragmatics in memory : a study of natural conversation / Janice M. Keenan, Brian MacWhinney, Deborah Mayhew -- Part VI. Getting things done -- Remembering to perform future actions / John A. Meacham and Burt Leiman -- External memory aids / John E. Harris -- Prospective remembering in children / Mary Anne Kreutzer, Catherine Leonard, John H. Flavell -- The development of voluntary memory in children of preschool age / Z.M. Istomina -- Ecological niche picking / Michael Cole, Lois Hood, Ray McDermott -- Part VII. Special people -- Memorists / Ulric Neisser -- The mind of a mnemonist / A.R. Luria -- The second mnemonist / Earl Hunt and Tom Love -- An adult Eidetiker / Charles F. Stromeyer III -- An uncommon case of visual memory / Kent Gummerman and Cynthia R. Gray -- The talents of the Reverend Doctor Phelps / William Lyon Phelps -- Toscanini's memory / George R. Marek -- An exceptional memory / Ian M.L. Hunter.