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How is it that we are able to respond to stimuli that are no longer present? To talk about events that occurred yesterday, last week, or a year or more ago? Is memory a limited store holding fading copies of our past? Or is remembering a behavior akin to seeing or hearing? The answers to such questions have important repercussions for whether and how we approach the task of improving a person’s remembering behavior. In this chapter, I describe who could benefit from remembering interventions. I present the views of memory held by cognitive and behavioral psychology and outline how the two positions affect approaches to improving memory performance. Lastly, I describe cognitive and behavioral interventions that can be applied by practitioners to improve memory performance.
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Sargisson, R.J. (2023). Remembering and Cognition. In: Matson, J.L. (eds) Handbook of Applied Behavior Analysis. Autism and Child Psychopathology Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-19964-6_54
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