1. "You know," Fidel began, "the more we learn about memory, the better we'll do in school and in business." "You're right," Alicia responded. She continued, "I heard about several websites that can help us explore and experiment with memory. One that sounds totally awesome is 'Exploratorium: The Memory Exhibition,' where we can read articles, get tutorials, and go through exhibitions and demonstrations." "Right!" answered Fidel," and we can get a good review of the chapter material and our professor's lecture at the 'Virtual Psychology Classroom.'" Fidel and Alicia can get all of that and more at these three links:

2. "I don't know why I have such a problem remembering things," moaned Jerome. "The other day I went to pick up a prescription for my dog and when I was leaving, I looked all around for my keys. Holly the receptionist suggested that maybe I had left them in my car. Can you believe I did that—and even left the engine running! Wow! I have to do SOMETHING to improve my memory." He can get some suggestions not only for remembering everyday things—such as where he left his key—he can also learn how to study for exams, learn a foreign language, remember people's names, and even how to remember detailed, structured information at "Mindtools" and can download free software that has classic experiments and explanations of why they're important at University of Denver's "Experiments in Psychology":

3. "Okay," said Stephen. "Now I've heard it all. My next door neighbor remembers that as a child he was abducted by aliens. I think he's watched too many reruns of The X-Files." His friend Elizabeth nodded and said, "Well, that may be weird, but I don't think it's harmful. My next door neighbor was seeing a therapist and suddenly 'remembered' that she was physically and sexually abused by her father when she was a baby. It's torn her whole family apart, even though they have solid proof it never happened." Stephen added, "I wonder how easy it is to 'plant' false memories." They can get more insight into these issues by checking such sources as The Skeptical Inquirer as well as the somewhat competing views of memory researchers Elizabeth Loftus (University of Washington) and Kathy Pezdek (Claremont Graduate University):

4. Howard was rattled as he read about the problems people can have with memory loss. His grandmother suffered from Alzheimer's disease for many years before she died and for the last two years of her life she didn't remember Howard or his mother, even though "Grandma" had lived with them since he was a young child. Finally, Grandma forgot how to eat. Early on she had prepared her advanced directives about her final illness and death and said she wanted no "heroic" efforts to keep her alive, so she passed away from malnutrition. Howard wants to learn more about the research that's being done to help people with memory disorders. He can go to the Rutgers University "Memory Disorders Research" site and also check out an article at APA online, "Gateways to Memory" to find out more:

5. "Did you read about the guy who finally got out of prison after 20 years?" asked Bill. "He was sent away on the basis of eyewitness testimony, and then 19 years later he was cleared by DNA evidence." His friend Ari commented, "Yeah—after reading this chapter and the last section about eyewitness testimony, you really have to wonder if eyewitness testimony can be trusted at all." They can learn the basic procedures that the U.S. Department of Justice suggests for getting the most reliable and accurate information from eyewitnesses by going to: