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Pages 353-371 in Chapter 10 Memory, pages 372-390 in
Chapter 10 Memory, pages 170-175 on hypnosis in Chapter 5 Body Rhythms
and Mental States, and related classes
Facts and concepts to understand
- stages of the memory process
- characteristics of short-term memory, long-term memory
- how does information get transferred into short-term memory (STM)?
- how does information get transferred into long-term memory (LTM)?
- storage capacity of STM and LTM
- organization of long-term memory
- state-dependent memory/learning
- how can short-term memory be enhanced?
- how can long-term memory be enhanced?
- reasons for forgetting
- decay
- reconstruction
- interference
- motivation
- cue-dependent forgetting
- interference-- retroactive, proactive
- physiological basis of memory
- distinguish among three types of long term memory-- episodic, semantic,
procedural [episodic and semantic memory are called declarative memory]
- role of hippocampus in different types of memory
- effects of Korsakoff's syndrome on memory
- case of Clive Wearing
- what types of memory difficulties did Clive have?
- why did he have these difficulties?
- why are flashbulb memories so vivid? how accurate are they? how do
we know? (relevant studies)
- why does childhood amnesia occur?
- what does it mean to say that memory is a reconstructive process?
- what kind of problems can this lead to in eyewitness testimony?
- current controversy over repressed/recovered/false memories
- are memories ever repressed?
- what techniques and circumstances are likely to lead to false
memories?
- what does research on memory indicate about the validity of recovered
memories of sexual abuse?
- corroborating evidence
- effects of hypnosis on pain
- how else can you create the same effects that are produced by hypnosis?
- have studies supported the validity of hypnotic age regression?
- effects of hypnosis on remembering early childhood events
- have studies supported the validity of hypnotic past life regression?
- effects of hypnosis on remembering details (e.g., crime scene)
Terms
- recognition
- recall
- sensory register
- icon
- echo
- short-term memory (STM)
- long-term memory (LTM)
- elaborative rehearsal
- maintenance rehearsal
- decay
- primacy effect
- recency effect
- retrieval cue
- state-dependent memory
- mnemonic
- interference-- retroactive, proactive
- hippocampus
- amnesia
- Korsakoff's syndrome
- episodic memory
- semantic memory
- procedural memory
- flashbulb memory
- childhood amnesia
- repressed memory
- recovered memory
- false memory
- hypnosis
- age regression
- past life regression
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