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Chapter 6: Memory


Learning Objectives

Chapter 6: Memory

  1. Define memory.
  2. List and describe the three different memory systems and their corresponding time frames.
  3. Distinguish between echoic memory and iconic memory.
  4. Describe the effects of chunking and maintenance rehearsal on working memory.
  5. Distinguish between declarative memory and procedural memory and between episodic memory and semantic memory.
  6. Contrast the traditional and contemporary memory models.
  7. Describe the following encoding processes: attention, automatic and effortful processing, elaboration, organization, and imagery.
  8. Describe how the network theories and the schema theories explain the representation of knowledge in memory.
  9. Describe the process of retrieval from long-term memory, including the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon and the serial position effect.
  10. Distinguish between recall and recognition.
  11. Distinguish between proactive and retroactive interference.
  12. Distinguish between anterograde amnesia and retrograde amnesia.
  13. Discuss the search for the neurobiological basis of memory.
  14. Describe the importance of cultural factors in memory.
  15. Distinguish between the strategies for improving practical memory and academic memory.

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