The Strategic Regulation Of Memory Accuracy And Informativeness

Publisher Summary The central thesis of this chapter is that particularly in real-life situations, but also to some extent in the laboratory, rememberers strategically regulate the quality and amount of information that they report from memory in accordance with two generally competing goals: Accuracy and informativeness. The work described in this chapter is predicated on the view that the strategic regulation of memory performance is an intrinsic aspect of everyday remembering. The desire to capture the full richness of real-world memory phenomena, however, is often at odds with the desire to bring the phenomena into the laboratory for controlled experimental investigation. This chapter tries to reach an expedient compromise that offers the benefits of experimental tools and rigor, while still tapping some of the fundamental features of the strategic regulation of memory performance in real-world settings.

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