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Suitable as a college-level text for a human memory course or a more general course on cognitive psychology. This edition (previous, 1990) contains three new chapters concerning the role of consciousness and knowledge in learning and memory. The rest of the volume, unaltered, covers topics including perceiving and memory, control of memory, practice, acquiring habits, retrieval, and autobiographical memory. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.