After completing their study of these modules, students should be able to:
Define memory
Explain how flashbulb memories differ from other memories.
Describe Atkinson-Shiffrin’s classic three-stage processing model of memory,
and explain how the
contemporary model of working memory differs.
Describe the types of information we encode automatically.
Contrast effortful processing with automatic processing, and discuss the and the serial position effect.
Compare the benefits of visual, acoustic, and semantic encoding in remembering describe a memory-enhancing strategy related to the self-reference effect.
Explain how encoding imagery aids effortful processing, and describe use visual encoding.
Discuss the use of chunking and hierarchies in effortful processing.
Contrast two types of sensory memory.
Describe the duration and capacity of short-term memory.
Describe the capacity and duration of long-term memory.
Discuss the synaptic changes that accompany memory formation and storage.
Distinguish between implicit and explicit memory, and identify the main brain structure associated with each.