Human Memory

Human Memory

1. Encoding

   • Attention
   • Levels-of-processing Theory
   • Elaboration
   • Dual-coding Theory
   • Self-referent Encoding

2. Storage

   • Sensory memory
   • Short-term memory
     • Rehearsal
     • Chunk
     • Working memory
       • Working memory Capacity
   • Long-term Memory
     • Flashbulb memories
   • How knowledge is Represented
     • Clustering
     • Conceptual Hierarchy
     • Schemas
     • Semantic Network
     • Parallel distributed processing

3. Retrieval

   • Tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon
   • Misinformation Effect
   • Reality monitoring
   • Source Monitoring
     • Error
   • Destination memory

4. Forgetting

   • Forgetting Curve
   • measures
     • Retention
     • Recall
     • Recognition
     • Relearning
   • Why we forget
     • Decay theory
     • Interference Theory
       • Retroactive
       • Proactive
     • The Encoding specificity Principle
     • Transfer-appropriate Processing
     • Repression

5. Physiology of memory

   • Long-term potentiation
   • Amnesia
     • Retrograde
     • Anterograde
   • Consolidation

6. Types

   • Implicit
     • non-declarative
   • Explicit
     • Declarative
     • Semantic
     • Episodic
   • Prospective vs. Retrospective