Memory

 Bennett L. Schwartz received his PhD in 1993 from Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. Since then he has been at Florida International University (FIU) in Miami, Florida, where he is currently professor of psychology. He is author or editor of 10 published books as well as over 70 journal articles and chapters. His textbook Memory: Foundations and Applications, fourth edition (SAGE), was published in 2020. He has won several teaching awards at FIU and currently teaches courses in memory, cognition, and sensation and perception. His main research area is metacognition and memory, but he has also conducted research in diverse areas that range from visual perception to evolutionary psychology, to the language of thought, and to memory in nonhuman primates. Schwartz currently serves as the editor in chief of New Ideas in Psychology.

Section 1: Memory and Processes of Memory Chapter 1: Introduction to the Study of Memory Chapter 2: Neuroscience of Memory Chapter 3: Working Memory Chapter 4: Episodic Memory Chapter 5: Semantic Memory Section 2: Advanced Topics in Memory Chapter 6: Autobiographical Memory Chapter 7: False Memory Chapter 8: Prospective Memory and Metamemory Chapter 9: Memory and Development Section 3: Applications of Memory Research Chapter 10: Brain-Based Amnesia and Alzheimers Disease Chapter 11: Memory and Clinical Disorders Chapter 12: Applications 1: Legal Psychology Chapter 13: Applications 2: Memory Improvement and Learning Efficiency