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1 Memory is the mother of all wisdom – Aeschylus, 440BCE

2 * Personal – internal recollection of events of your life * Factual – meanings, facts, and ideas * Practical – skills, habits you have developed (think muscle memory)

3 * Describe ways in which they are inter-twined, and also how separate * How do you use your memory in three of your classes? Some more than others?

4 * Storehouse Model – we retrieve as needed * Reconstruction Model – we reconstruct the memories every time we access them * Example of a memory which has changed over time? How? Why?

5 * Encoding – selective attention… * Meeting someone and immediately forgetting their name (why?) * Attention…money- what is on it?

6 * Storage – we tend to chunk information, and remember it if we practice/use it * Game http://www.gmw.rug.nl/~psychinquiry/09/shor tterm_memory/index.html http://www.gmw.rug.nl/~psychinquiry/09/shor tterm_memory/index.html * What we do store is simplified, or stereotypical

7 * See http://www.gmw.rug.nl/~psychinquiry/09/ton gue/index.html http://www.gmw.rug.nl/~psychinquiry/09/ton gue/index.html * Context, cues, other reminders….examples?

8 * Forgetting – have you ever? * Mis-remembering – how is this different? * Testimony – when is either of these perjury?

9 * Hindsight bias – * Unconscious plagiarism – * Fabricated memories -

10 * http://www.newrepublic.com/article/117986/ how-google-affects-memory http://www.newrepublic.com/article/117986/ how-google-affects-memory * What do you remember best, in school? In life? * Is memory becoming an obsolete way of knowing?

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