1. University of Leicester Year 1 Psychology Learning and Memory Professor Graham Davies Lecture 6 Copies of Overheads Memory in Action

2. How representative is laboratory research? Ebbinghaus (1984) - nonsense syllable learning - The j shaped curve Linton (1978) - experiences from her own life - different curves of forgetting

3. Bartlett and ‘Remembering’ (1932) ‘War of the Ghosts’ Characteristic changes - quantitative - qualitative Schema - operate at encoding - operate at retrieval Active reconstruction not passive reproduction

4. Organisation and Memory ‘Clustering’ Bousfield (1953) Organisation and retrieval Bower et al (1969) ‘Cocktail waitresses’ memory Stevens (1988)

5. Eyewitness Testimony Post-event misinformation Loftus & Palmer (1974) Facial composites Ellis et al (1975) Complete and accurate memory is the exception not the rule