Chapter 7: Memory
Chapter Outline
What Are the Basic Stages of Memory?
- Sensory Memory Is Brief
- Short-Term Memory Is Active
- Long-Term Memory Is Relatively Permanent
- Explicit Memory Involves Conscious Effort
- Implicit Memory Occurs without Deliberate Effort
- Long-Term Memory Is a Temporal Sequence
- Long-Term Storage Is Based on Meaning
- Schemas Provide an Organizational Framework
- Information Is Stored in Association Networks
- Retrieval Cues Provide Access to Long-Term Storage
- There Has Been Intensive Effort to Identify the Physical Location of Memory
- The Medial Temporal Lobes Are Important for Consolidation of Declarative Memories
- The Frontal Lobes Are Involved in Many Aspects of Memory
- Neurochemistry Influences Memory
- Transience Is Caused by Interference
- Blocking Is Temporary
- Absentmindedness Results from Shallow Encoding
- Amnesia Is a Deficit in Long-Term Memory
- Flashbulb Memories Can Be Wrong
- People Make Source Misattributions
- People Make Bad Eyewitnesses
- People Have False Memories
- Repressed Memories Are Controversial
- People Reconstruct Events to Be Consistent
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