Memory

  • Acoustic, visual, semantic codes
  • Encoding/storage/retrieval
  • Information processing – sensory memory, STM, LTM
  • Implicit v. explicit memory
  • Levels of processing (shallow, deep)
  • Maintenance rehearsal
  • Elaborative rehearsal
  • Chunking
  • Transfer-appropriate processing
  • Parallel distributed processing (PDP)
  • Sensory memory – encoding, storage, retrieval
  • STM – encoding, storage, retrieval, capacity, duration
  • LTM – encoding, storage, retrieval
  • Serial position effect (primary, regency)
  • Tulving
  • Types of memory: episodic, semantic, procedural
  • Semantic networks, spreading activation
  • Recall v. recognition
  • Mnemonics – loci, etc.
  • Constructive memory research on eyewitness memory…Loftus, Bartlett
  • Encoding specificity principle – state, mood, context
  • Tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon…what does it show?
  • Flashbulb memories…what does research show?
  • Ebbinghaus – savings
  • Theories of why we forget
  • Interference – proactive/retroactive
  • Influence of age on memory
  • Biological bases of memory
  • Schemas, scripts
  • Ways in which memory can be improved
  • Retrograde, anterograde amnesia