5. Memory

• subsystems / processes
• modal model of memory
• sensory memory / STM / LTM
• encoding
• storage
• retrieval
• control processes (rehearsal, elaborative encoding)
• characteristics of memory
• capacity
• duration
• representation
• loss of information
• decay
• interference
• retrieval failure
• short-term memory
• chunk
• long-term memory
• list-learning experiments
• serial position curve
• primacy effect
• recency effect
• manipulations that affect recall
• rate of presentation
• interference task
• control processes
• theoretical explanations
• criticisms of the modal model of memory
• working memory
• articulatory loop / visual-spatial sketch pad
• unitary model
• activation metaphor
• levels of processing theory
• deep vs. shallow processing
• recall vs. recognition
• recognition failure
• encoding specificity
• state-dependent learning
• physical context
• amnesic syndrome
• anterograde amnesia
• retrograde amnesia
• Korsakoff's syndrome
• residual learning capacity
• episodic vs. semantic memory
• declarative vs. procedural knowledge
• explicit vs. implicit memory
• word-fragment completion task
• characteristics of representations
• external & internal representations
• analog & propositional representations
• imagery
• mental rotation (Shepard)
• image scanning (Kosslyn)
• predicate calculus
• (predicate/argument)
• imagery vs. propositions (Pylyshyn & Kosslyn)
• infinite regression
• Kosslyn's theory/model of imagery
• resolution
• grain / granularity
• image tracing task (big vs. small images)
• concepts
• instances/members
• cognitive economy / generalization
• defining-attribute (classical view)
• attributes/features/properties
• singly necessary and jointly sufficient
• hierarchical organization
• nested concepts (superordinate & subordinate)
• semantic network (Collins & Quillian)
• sentence verification task (instance-subordinate; instance-attribute)
• feature salience effects
• typicality effects
• family resemblance
• fuzzy boundaries
• prototype theory
• focal colours
• Dani
• Levels of abstraction in prototype theory (Rosch) - specific objects, basic level, superordinate level
• conceptual coherence (women, fire, & dangerous things!)
• schema
• Bartlett's early work
• reconstruction
• characteristics of schema
• default values
• script theory
• pros/cons of schema theory
• gist / verbatim recall
• John Dean / systematic distortions of memory
• eye-witness testimony
• enhancement of eye-witness testimony
• cognitive interview
• mnemonics / organization / mediation
• PEMA
• acronyms / key word method / method of loci
• pegword system