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Upon completing this chapter, you will be able to:
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1. Identify the operations involved in the information-processing view of memory and describe the three-stage theory of memory. |
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2. Discuss the role of the sensory register in the stage theory of memory. |
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3. Define short-term memory and describe how its life span and capacity can be influenced. |
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4. Discuss differences between short-term memory and long-term memory. |
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5. Distinguish among the three kinds of long-term memory: procedural, episodic, and semantic. |
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6. Discuss the organization of memory in long-term memory. |
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7. Identify different ways of measuring the retrieval of information from long-term memory and explain serial learning and the "tip of the tongue phenomenon." |
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8. Distinguish between deep and shallow processing in the levels of processing model and describe the role of elaboration. |
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9. Distinguish among the four major theories of forgetting: decay theory, interference theory, reconstruction (schema) theory, and motivated forgetting. |
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10. Describe the synaptic theories of memory. |
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11. Distinguish between anterograde amnesia and retrograde amnesia. |
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12. (From the Application section) Discuss the results of research relating eyewitness testimony and memory. |