PSYC 111 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Short-Term Memory, Long-Term Memory, Sensory Memory
18 Jun 2018
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Psyc 111: Introductory Psychology Professor Deak
Chapter 7: Memory
Chapter Objectives:
• Provide an overview of memory formation and retrieval from an information
processing perspective.
• Describe hallmark features of memory to better understand methods for
improving memory for the long term.
Brief Lecture Outline:
I. Human Memory: Basic Questions
A. Memory As Information Processing
B. The Computer Analogy
C. Selective Attention: Early, Middle, or Late?
II. Sensory Memory
III. Short-term Memory (STM)
A. Maintenance and Elaborative rehearsal
B. Short-term Memory as “Working Memory”
C. Three Component Model of Working Memory
IV. Long-term Memory (LTM)
A. Are STM and LTM really different?
B. Serial Position Effect
C. Level of Processing Theory of Memory
D. Enrich Encoding for Durable Memories
E. Types of LTM
V. Nature of Memory Representations
A. Organization
B. Prior Knowledge Shapes Encoding
C. Neural Network Models
D. Context, State, and Mood Effects on Memory
VI. Fallibility of Memory
A. Ebbinghaus on Forgetting
B. Theories of Forgetting
C. Misinformation Effect
D. Source Confusion
E. “Recovered” Memory
F. Amnesia: Retrograde, Anterograde, Infantile
VII. Biology of Memory
A. Brain Regions
B. Cellular Basis
C. Theories of Independent Memory Systems
VIII. Improving memory for class materials
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