Chapter Objectives

Upon completing this chapter, you will be able to:

1. Identify the operations involved in the information-processing view of memory and understand the three stage theory of memory.

2. Know the characteristics of the sensory register.

3. Define short-term memory and understand how its life span and capacity can be influenced.

4. Discuss the ways in which long-term memory differs from short-term memory.

5. Describe the three kinds of long-term memory: procedural, episodic, and semantic.

6. Understand how information is organized in long-term memory.

7. Identify different ways of measuring the retrieval of information from long-term memory and explain serial learning and the "tip of the tongue phenomenon."

8. Distinguish between deep and shallow processing in the levels of processing model and understand the role of elaboration.

9. Distinguish among the four major theories of forgetting: decay theory, interference theory, schema theory, and motivated forgetting.

10. Recognize and understand synaptic theories of memory.

11. Distinguish between anterograde amnesia and retrograde amnesia.

12. Recognize how drugs may or may not enhance memory.

13. (From the Application section) Understand the results of research relating eyewitness testimony and memory.

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