Memory in Mind and Culture

Memory in Mind and Culture

Index

9/11 attacks 150, 152, 154, 161

accuracy, and emotion 98–101, 194, 226–228

African Americans 230, 231, 233

Armenia 117, 230

Augustine 238–239

Australia 257

autobiographical memory 29, 281–282

autobiographical memory, and culture 8, 54–55, 62–80

autobiographical memory, and language 56

autobiographical memory, as knowledge 33, 38–40

autobiographical memory, many systems involved in 282–284

ballads 276–279

Barrett, Justin 293

Bartlett, Frederic 29, 35, 118, 129, 130, 147, 226–227, 275

Bergson, Henri 132

Britain 260

Bruner, Jerome 130

Canada 227–228, 229

case-based reasoning 14

Childhood amnesia 46–48

Chinese 231, 233

Civil Rights 133, 151

coalitional psychology 299

cognitive predispositions 288–313

collective memory 11, 113, 117–135, 138–140, 171, 191, 194, 196–197, 199, 207–208, 241

collective memory, methods in study of 284–286

collective memory, sites 252–254

collective memory, strong vs weak notion 118–120

collective memory, vs. history 140–142, 241–244, 247–249, 254–257

collective remembering, and acuracy 139ff, 162–164

collective remembering, and feedback 160–162

collective remembering, and repeated retrieval 150ff

collective remembering, strengthening of 148

collective remembering, vs history 140–142

Columbus, Christopher 133–135

commemoration 257

Connerton, Paul 132

Conway, Martin 6, 30, 173

counting rhymes 273–276

cultural tools 120, 307

culture, transmission of 269–270, 289–292, 309–310, 312

Cuna 305–308

Dawkins, Richard 290

Denmark, German invasion of 151

domain-specificity 292

Douglas, Mary 118

Douglass, Frederick 240

Durkheim, Emile 11, 132

Ebbinghaus, Hermann 33

Eliot, TS 17

encoding processes 89, 94–96

Erikson, Erik 45, 173

essentialism 10, 296–299

Estonia 117

ethnicity and identity 10, 51

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Faulkner 239

flashbulb memories 36, 49, 99, 114, 194

flashbulb memories 152ff

foresight 14

Freud, Sigmund 47

Galton, Francis 33–34

general events 5

Germans 220, 233, 240

habit memory 120

Halbwachs, Maurice 11, 129, 132, 139, 194

Hindus 228–229

Hiroshima 143

historiograohy 13

history, official 131ff, 134

history, textbooks 142–145

Hobbes, Thomas 18

Holocaust 244–245

human cooperation 12, 19

imaginary friends 17

imagination 16–18

imagined communities 10

impulsiveness 20

independence vs. interdependence 53

invented traditions 10, 243

James, William 98

Japanese 231, 233, 234

Jews 230

July 4 162

Kennedy, John F 150, 184

King, Martin Luther 151, 184

Kurzban, Robert 299

life-scripts 31, 62–80

life-story 5, 31, 42, 65, 72–73

lifetime periods 5, 42, 173

literacy 304, 308–309

Malcolm X 151

Manifest Destiny 131

Mannheim, Karl 133, 173

Mc Intyre, Alasdair 128

memes 290–291

memories, self-defining 44, 49, 226

memory, emotion and 99–101, 103, 198

memory, accuracy 98–101, 194, 226–228

memory, constraining function of 18

memory, episodic vs semantic 4, 288

memory, function of 3, 13, 20, 43, 234

memory, historical 172–173, 187, 223–228

memory, identity and 9, 229–230

memory, methods in study of 34

memory, networks 36ff

memory, public 132–133

memory, social groups and 9, 173–178, 230

memory, specificity of 83–105

memory, self and 7

memory boom 9, 220, 238, 240, 243

memory industry 117

mental time-travel 4, 31, 223

metacognition 159

misinformation effects 163

Mithen, Steven 310

morality, and religion 295–296

morality, development of 295–296

Nagasaki 143

Nanking 13

narrative, as distinct from language 283

narrative, national 246

narrative self 7

Neisser, Ulric 7, 30, 36, 50, 194

Nelson, Katherine 73, 77

Novick, Peter 140

obsessive-compulsive disorder 301–302

oral traditions 273–286

Palestinians 230

phenomenological records 6

pictographs 304–308

present, memory is for the 3, 219, 224, 226

priming 83, 85–86

priming, neural tuning in 87

Propp, Vladimir 129

Rabin, Yitzhak 150

racism, cognitive aspects of 298–299

reality-monitoring 101–102

recollection, imagery and 15

remember vs know 5

reminiscence bump 46–48, 66–71, 133

retrieval, collective memory and 145–155

retrieval, feedback and 155ff

retrieval, multiple cues in 278–279

retrieval, repeated 138–170

retrieval, spaced 154

Ribot, Theodore 33, 35

Ridley, Matt 299

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rituals 300–304

Rubin, David 173

Russia, collective memory in 117, 130ff

schematic narrative templates 128, 165

Schuman 173

script 64

self, and encoding 92–94

self, identity 45

self, in neuro-imaging 94–98

self, split-brain patients 97

self, working 37ff

self-memory system 63

serial recall 280

Sikhs 228–229

slavery 117, 230

social categories 296–299

social contagion 164

social dominance 300

specificity, types of 86

Sperber, Dan 290

Stalin, Josef 132

storage, external 304–306

Sunni/Shi’ite 162

testing effect 146–147

textual community 120, 132

Tomasello, Michael 311

transitional events 64

traumatic events 175–180

Truman, Harry 144

Twain, Mark 239

US history, African Americans in 140, 151

US history, Civil War in 143

US history, Native Americans in 140

US history, official version of 140, 165

US history, textbooks of 142–144, 165

US history, World War II in 132

Vietnam War 133, 184–185

vigilance 15

Wallace, George 151

Wertsch, James 139, 141–144, 147

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