Recent History of Psychology: Mnemonic Techniques and the Psycholinguistic Revolution

Hoffman, Robert R.; Senter, R. J.

doi:10.1007/bf03394505

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“…Haber (1974), Hilgard (1987, chs 6 and 7). Hoffman, Cochran, and Nead (1989), Hoffman & Senter (1978), Kessel and Bevan (1985), Knapp (1986), Newell (1983), Newell & Simon (1972, pp. 873-889), Paivio (1975), Posner and Shulman (1979), Postman (1985), and Wiener (1948, ch.…”

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“…McGhee and Schultz, 1961;McNulty, 1966;Postman, 1962;Russell and Storms, 1955) provided just the precedent for studying imagery and for legitimizing research on mentalistic topics such as the effectiveness of mnemonic techniques (e.g. Paivio and Olver, 1964;Smith and Noble, 1965;Wallace, Turner, and Perkins, 1957; for a review, see Hoffman and Senter, 1978).…”

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A brief history of applied cognitive psychology

Hoffman

Deffenbacher

1992

Applied Cognitive Psychology

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Currently, applied cognitive psychology seems to be a 'hot topic'. What are the origins of this area of specialization? In this article we survey the history of applied cognitive psychology, beginning with the earliest applied psychological research of the late 18OOs, through the impact on psychology of the World Wars, through the advent of the information processing view of the 1950s, and up to the recent flurry of work on topics in cognitive science, such as humanxomputer interaction. We also consider recent changes in the structure of American professional societies, economic changes and funding patterns, and other factors that have contributed to the advent of this new field. Although our discussion is largely descriptive, we point to some of the influences on applied psychology, such as the practical concerns that have arisen outside the laboratory. Our discussion is best characterized as a historically contextualized cautionary tale that asserts the values of neofunctionalism for applied cognitive psychology.

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A brief history of applied cognitive psychology

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Deffenbacher

1992

Applied Cognitive Psychology

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“…There has been anecdotal evidence reported. The famous mnemonist Roth is said to have learned the hundreds of names and phone numbers of the members of the San Francisco Rotary Club (Hoffman & Senter, 1978). bower (1973) writes about a 96 year old man who would memorize lists of 50 three-digit numbers shouted out to him by an audience at the rate of one three digit number every five or ten seconds.…”

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A Review of the Literature on Memory Enhancement: The Potential and Relevance of Mnemotechnics for Military Training

Griffith¹

1979

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“…The findings call for further investigation of the cognitive processes relevant to semantic as compared to imagery encoding. Hoffman and Senter (1978) review a tradition interested in imagery transformation at encoding of tobe-remembered material, and Craik and Tulving (1975) represent a tradition interested in semantic encoding of to-be-remembered material. The present experiment is designed to make a direct comparison between encoding conditions representing these two areas of research.…”

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