Abstract
It is commonly believed by laypersons that memory is a singular, “trait-like” attribute, one which operates with a uniform efficiency across most of the life course. Some individuals are thought to be endowed with excellent “all-around” memories whereas others are seen as pervasively forgetful. Friends are classified as “having a great memory” or as “totally absent-minded” as though such labels reflect something as enduring and transcontextual about them as their social security numbers.
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Ceci, S.J., DeSimone, M., Johnson, S. (1992). Memory in Context: A Case Study of “Bubbles P.,” A Gifted but Uneven Memorizer. In: Herrmann, D.J., Weingartner, H., Searleman, A., McEvoy, C. (eds) Memory Improvement. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2760-1_10
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