Reminiscence, Motivation, and Personality

1. Front Matter

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2. The Origin of the Grand Design

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Kraepelin and the Age of Innocence

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      Pages 3-35

   3. The Pursuit Rotor: An Apparatus for All Occasions

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      Pages 37-64

   4. The Beginning of Investigations on a Grand Scale

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      Pages 65-96

   5. The All-Purpose Apparatus Meets the All-Purpose Theory

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      Pages 97-128

3. The Failure of the Grand Design

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 129-129

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   2. Reminiscence and Motivation

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      Pages 131-164

   3. Post-Rest Upswing and Downswing

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      Pages 165-197

   4. Transfer of Training and Interpolated Activity

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      Pages 199-226

   5. Individual Differences in Ability as Determinants of Performance and Reminiscence

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      Pages 227-254

   6. Individual Differences: Extraversion

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      Pages 255-296

   7. Individual Differences: Schizophrenia

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      Pages 297-320

4. The New Look in Reminiscence

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      Pages 321-321

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   2. Consolidation: The Failure of Inhibition Theory

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      Pages 323-349

   3. Strategies in Performance: What Is This Thing Called Learning?

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      Pages 351-375

   4. The Rise and Fall of Reminiscence: An Explanation Is Proposed and Some Morals are Drawn

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      Pages 377-391

5. Epilogue

   1. Epilogue Fifty Years of Pursuit-Rotor Studies

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      Pages 393-398

6. Back Matter

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This is a book on reminiscence, or more modestly a book on reminiscence in motor tasks, or more modestly still on reminiscence in pursuit rotor learning, with occasional references to other types of reminiscence. The vast majority of experiments investigating reminiscence with the pur­ suit rotor have been carried out within the framework of Hullian learn­ ing theory. Thus, of necessity, this book also will be much concerned with that theory. Some readers may feel that so much detailed attention paid to one piece of apparatus and one now rather discredited theory, is overdone; we could not agree with such an evaluation. There are several features of pursuit-rotor performance which make it particularly worthy of attention. One of the more important of these features is the easy replicability of many of the phenomena found in performance of this task; this is our first point. Replicability is the life blood of science; what cannot be replicated by any well-trained observer is of doubtful status in science, and on this score pursuit-rotor work certainly emerges as perhaps the most reliable set of observations in experimental psychology. The effects of massing and spacing; of rest pauses of different length; of switching from massed to spaced learn­ ing, or vice versa; of interpolating different activities; of introducing distracting stimuli; of switching from right to left hand, or vice versa; of changing the speed of rotation, or the diameter of the target disk­ these are clear-cut and replicable as few phenomena in psychology are.

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