1. “Efficiency” – the pro’s and cons
Memory
Is this “who” we are?
Memory is malleable, Memory is fallible!
“Efficiency” – the pro’s and cons

2. Memory Internet Listening: Learning Objectives: Kinds of Memory
Radio Lab (
Season Three: “Memory & Forgetting”
“Count the Passes” [M. Shermer-Youtube]
Learning Objectives:
Kinds of Memory
Processes of Memory
Stages of Memory
Forgetting/improving memory

3. 3 Kinds of Memory MEMORY RETRO PROSP EXPLICIT IMPLICIT procedural
Episodic Semantic

4. Retrospective Memory Explicit / Declarative Episodic Semantic
Autobiographical
Semantic
general knowledge

5. Prospective Memory Implicit Procedural: skill memory
Remembering to do things in the future.
Looking ahead
Mnemonic techniques

6. Three Processes of Memory
Encoding (transformer)
Storage (save function)
Retrieval
This what we generally think of as memory.

7. Three Stages of Memory Sensory (impressions)
Atkinson-Shiffrin Model 1968
Sensory (impressions)
Short-term (working memory)
Long-term (biochemical hard drive)
LTM accuracy (Loftus)
Eyewitness testimony (Loftus)

8. Forgetting Memory task used in measuring Recognition (easiest)
Recall (Ebbinghaus)
Relearning “Method of savings”
Interference Theory
Repressed/Recovered Memories (Loftus)

9. Improving Memory Drill & practice Mnemonic devices Mediation
Relating new information to what’s already known
Method of Loci