1. Chapter 8 Memory: Theories and Neurocognition

2. c = category, v/c = #vowel, # consonant 1. aluminum -- c 2. lion -- c 3. nylon -- v/c 4. spatula -- v/c 5. desk -- v/c 6. foot -- v/c 7. peach -- c 8. club -- v/c 9. vodka -- c 10. chisel -- v/c 11. swimming -- c 12. blouse -- c 13. clarinet -- c 14. eagle -- v/c 15. truck -- v/c 16. Judy -- c 17. polio -- v/c 18. purple -- c

3. Early Studies Ebbinghaus - wrote first to present systematic studies of memory and forgetting –nonsense syllables, forgetting curve James - Philosopher, physician, psychologist whose dual-memory concept served as the basis of modern theories of memory. –Primary (immediate) and secondary (indirect)

4. Primary memory - similar to STM Secondary Memory - permanent memory, LTM Ebbinghaus and James were ignored for 75 years, until emergence of cognitive psych.

5. Neurocognition of Memory Engram - memory trace Long-term potentiation - process by which memories become permanent –“enhanced” responding of nerve cells repeatedly stimulated Cerebral cortex, cerebellum and hippocampus involved in storage and processing

6. Evidence for Two memory stores James’s dualistic theory Amnesia behavioral studies (like Ebbinghaus) –primacy and recency effects Issue is STILL BEING DEBATED

7. Cognitive Storage Systems Table on p. 240 lots of experiments led to this, but still make an inferential jump

8. Models of Memory Waugh and Norman Atkinson and Shiffrin Level of Recall Craik - Levels of Processing Model Self-Reference Effect (SRE) Tulving - Episodic and Semantic Memory Connectionist (PDP) model

9. Work: Brief description Diagram (if appropriate) Research supporting the model Advantages/Disadvantages with model