Section 5. Memory

1. What is memory?

• memory subsystems
• memory processes

2. Memory subsystems

• sensory memory
• short-term (working) memory
• long-term memory

3. Memory processes

• levels of processing theory
• remembering
• amnesic syndrome/LTM subsystems

4. Representation of information in memory

• analog vs. propositional representation
• concepts
• schema

5. Mnemonics

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Readings

• Reisberg - pp. 123-167 (memory structures), 168-210 (memory processes), 394-439 (visual memory), 256-303 (theories of memory organization), 304-345 (concepts), 211-255 (memory problems)