| Chapter Objectives (See related pages)
When you have studied this chapter, you should be able to:
Identify the operations involved in the information-processing view of memory and understand the stage theory of memory. |
| | | Discuss the role of the sensory register in the stage theory of memory. |
| | | Define short-term memory, and describe how its life span and capacity can be influenced. |
| | | Discuss differences between short-term memory and long-term memory. |
| | | Distinguish among three kinds of long-term memory: procedural, episodic, and semantic. |
| | | Discuss the organization of memory in long-term memory. |
| | | Identify different ways of measuring the retrieval of information from long-term memory. |
| | | Explain serial learning and the "tip of the tongue" phenomenon. |
| | | Distinguish between deep and shallow processing in the levels of processing model, and describe the role of elaboration. |
| | | Distinguish among the major theories of forgetting: decay theory, interference theory, reconstruction (schema) theory, and motivated forgetting. |
| | | Discuss how culture influences memory. |
| | | Describe the synaptic theories of memory. |
| | | Distinguish between anterograde amnesia and retrograde amnesia. |
| | | Discuss the results of research relating eyewitness testimony and memory. |
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