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Topic

 08/21 The Nature of Psych.
 08/28 Biological Bases
 09/04 No Class
 09/11 Sensation & Perception
 09/18 Consciousness
 09/25 Conditioning & Learning
 10/02 Remembering
 10/09 Thought & Language
 10/16 Infancy & Childhood
 10/23 Adol. & Adulthood
 10/30 Intelligence
 11/06 Motivation
 11/13 Personality
 11/20 Social Psychology
 11/27 No Class
 12/04 Stress & Health
 12/11 Final Exam

PSY 1303 - General Psychology
10/02 - Remembering and Forgetting

Types of Memory

Memory Stores and Codes

  • The Sensory Stores
  • The Short-Term Store
  • The Long-Term Store

Encoding and Recoding

  • Organization and Verbal Recoding
  • Imaginal Recoding

Why We Forget

  • Decay Theory
  • Interference Theory

Retrieval

  • Retrieval Cues
  • The Encoding Specificity Hypothesis
  • Distinctiveness as an Aid to Retrieval

Mnemonic Devices

  • The Method of Loci
  • The Peg Method
  • The PQ4R Method

Remembering as Reconstruction

  • Schemas for Organizing
  • Boundary Extension
  • Eyewitness Testimony

Amnesia

  • Types of Amnesia
  • Korsakoff's Syndrome
  • Infantile Amnesia
  • Implicit Memory

Last updated: Saturday, August 7, 1999
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