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Functional memory requires a quite different value metaphor

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Norman H. Anderson
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of California, La Jolla, CA 92093–0109. nanderson@ucsd.edu

Abstract

The function of memory is to allow past experience to subserve present goal-oriented thought and action. The defining characteristic of goal-oriented approach/avoidance is value. Value lies beyond the reproductive conception of memory that is basic to both metaphors discussed in Koriat & Goldsmith's target article. Functional memory requires a quite different metaphor, for which a grounded theory is available.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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