CHAPTER 7 KEY LEARNING GOALS
7.1 Clarify the role of attention in memory and discuss the effects of divided attention.
7.2 Describe the three types of encoding discussed by Craik and Lockhart and how depth of processing relates to memory.
7.3 Explain how elaboration and visual imagery can enrich encoding.
7.4 Describe the role of the sensory store in memory.
7.5 Summarize evidence on the durability and capacity of short-term memory.
7.6 Describe Baddeley’s model of working memory.
7.7 Clarify the nature of long-term memory and review evidence on the notion that all memories are stored permanently.
7.8 Explain how schemas, semantic networks, and connectionist networks may contribute to the representation of information in long-term memory.
7.9 Explain the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon and how retrieval cues and context cues influence retrieval.
7.10 Understand the reconstructive nature of memory and summarize research on the misinformation effect.
7.11 Apply the concept of source monitoring to everyday memory errors.
7.12 Describe Ebbinghaus’s forgetting curve and three measures of retention.
7.13 Assess ineffective encoding and decay as potential causes of forgetting.
7.14 Evaluate interference and factors in the retrieval process as potential causes of forgetting.
7.15 Summarize evidence for the view that most recovered memories of childhood sexual abuse are genuine.
7.16 Summarize evidence for the view that most recovered memories of childhood sexual abuse are inaccurate.
7.17 Distinguish between two types of amnesia and identify the anatomical structures implicated in memory.
7.18 Describe evidence on neural circuits and memory, including work on long-term potentiation and neurogenesis.
7.19 Compare and contrast declarative and nondeclarative memory.
7.20 Distinguish between episodic versus semantic memory.
7.21 Distinguish between retrospective versus prospective memory.
7.22 Identify the three unifying themes highlighted in this chapter.
7.23 Discuss the importance of rehearsal, distributed practice, and interference in efforts to improve everyday memory.
7.24 Discuss the value of deep processing, good organization, and mnemonic devices in efforts to improve everyday memory.
7.25 Understand how hindsight bias and overconfidence contribute to the frequent inaccuracy of eyewitness memory.