1. Learning and Remembering

2. Objectives Sensory, short-term, and long-term memory
Two kinds of long-term memory
Event-related activity in the brain
Theories of forgetting

3. Basic Concepts and Definitions in Memory
Attention, memory, and learning
Early Studies of Exceptional Memories
S who had an astounding memory
Memory curves

4. Defining Memory Memory Remembering and Knowing Forgetting
Availability of information
Ability to retrieve previously acquired skills or information
Remembering and Knowing
The trees with their growth rings know things, but they remember nothing
Storage and retrieval
Forgetting
The other side of learning
Inability to retrieve or an actual change in the physiological effects of experience

5. Early Memory Research
Retroactive interference
Proactive interference

6. Three-Component Model of Memory
Short-term memory
Long-term memory
Sensory memory

7. Sensory Memory Term for the immediate, unconscious effects of stimuli
Cocktail party experiments

8. Short-Term (or Working) Memory
A classical study of STM
Function of rehearsal and time lapse
Limited Capacity
Working memory: concious at any given time
Seven slots plus or minus two

9. Short-Term (or Working) Memory
Chunking
Short term memory slots don’t have to be unitary
Baddeley’s model of working memory
Central executive system
Slave systems: phonological loop and visual-spatial sketch pad

10. Short-Term (or Working) Memory
Decay theory
Memory traces vanish quickly with the passage of time
Displacement theory
There are a limited number of slots and incoming information displaces old information
Interference theory
Previous learning (rather than subsequent information) might somehow interfere with short-term memory
Levels of Processing
Main difference between short- and long-term involves how input is processed

11. Long-Term Memory Long-term memory is highly stable
Long-term memory is generative
Schemata or scripts influence memories
It makes people to remember things that have never happened (generation rather than reproduction)

12. Long-Term Memory Understanding influences long-term memory
Some things are more easily remembered
Flashbulb memories

13. Short-Term and Long-Term Memory Compared