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Chapter 8

Memory Overview

Overview and history of Research

Encoding

Storage

Retrieval

Atkinson and Schiffrin Memory Model

Model Overview

Sensory Memory

Iconic Sensory Memory

The Phonological Loop

Short-term Memory (STM)

Magical Number 7 Plus or Minus 2

George Miller's Famous Paper

Maintenance Rehearsal

Elaborative Rehearsal

Chunking

Working Memory

Long-term Memory

Memory Researchers

Hermann Ebbinghaus

The Curve of Forgetting

Sir Frederick Bartlett

Bartlett's Experiment on Reconstructive Memory

Marigold Linton Paper on Memory (PDF)

Marigold Linton - Biography

Marigold Linton - Autobiography (PDF)

Kinds of Memories

Implicit and Explicit Memory

Semantic Memory

Episodic Memory

Memory Quirks

A. Luria - Biography

Luria's Famous Subject

Eidetic Memory

Tip-of-the-Tongue State

Flashbulb Memories

State-dependent Learning

Mood Congruity Effect (PDF)

Forgetting

Decay Theory

Interference Theory

Cue-dependent Forgetting

Repression/Motivated Forgetting

Retrograde Amnesia

Memory Consolidation

Anterograde Amnesia

Memory Improvement

Mnemonics

Mnemonics for Specific Information

Mnemonic Rhymes

Method of Loci

Memory Improvement Techniques

Memory and the Brain

Karl Lashley - Biography

The Engram

Neural Nets

Long-term Potentiation

The Hippocampus

Images of the Hippocampus

Brenda Milner - Biography

HM - Milner's Famous Patient

Infantile Amnesia

Spatial Memory

Perirhinal Cortex

Amygdala

Eyewitness Testimony

Elizabeth Loftus Interview

Misinformation Effect

Source Amnesia

Hypnosis and Memory

"False Memory" Controversy

Recovered Memories

Elizabeth Loftus - Bio and Links to Articles

False Memories

Humenansky Trial in St. Paul

Another Humenansky Patient's Story

Lawsuits Against Therapists in Recovered Memory Cases