UNIT+3+AOS+2+Memory


 * UNIT 3 AOS 2 MEMORY**


 * Below is an overview of all our lessons for memory. Go over these PowerPoints careful and watch content as linked.**


 * __Dot Point #1:__**


 * Mechanism of memory function:**
 * **role of neuron in memory formation informed by the work of E. Richard Kandel**
 * **roles of hippocampus and temporal lobe**
 * **consolidation theory**
 * **memory decline over the lifespan**
 * **amnesia resulting from brain trauma and neurodegenerative diseases including dementia and Alzheimer’s disease.**


 * __Dot Point #2:__**


 * **Atkinson-Shiffrin’s multi-store model of memory including maintenance and elaborative rehearsal, serial position effect and chunking**
 * **Alan Baddeley and Graham Hitch’s model of working memory: central executive, phonological loop, visuo-spatial sketchpad, episodic buffer**
 * **levels of processing as informed by Fergus Craik and Robert Lockhart**
 * **organisation of long-term memory including declarative and episodic memory, and semantic network theory**


 * CHAPTER 6**
 * Overview PowerPoint**


 * __Dot Point #3:__**


 * Strengths and limitations of psychological theories of forgetting:**
 * **retrieval failure theory including tip-of-the tongue phenomenon**
 * **interference theory**
 * **motivated forgetting as informed by the work of Sigmund Freud including repression and suppression**
 * **decay theory**


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 * Manipulation and improvement of memory:**
 * **forgetting curve as informed by the work of Hermann Ebbinghaus**
 * **measures of retention including the relative sensitivity of recall, recognition and relearning**
 * **use of context dependent cues and state dependent cues**
 * **mnemonic devices including acronyms, acrostics, peg-word method, narrative chaining and method of loci**
 * **effect of misleading questions on eye-witness testimonies including the reconstructive nature of memory informed by the work of Elizabeth Loftus**


 * CHAPTER 7 and 8**
 * Overview PowerPoint**


 * SAC #1 MEMORY RESEARCH METHODS**