Unit 3 PsychologyChapter 7 Forgetting

Edwina Ricci

Area Study 2 – Memory

TOPICS1. Neural basis of memory

2. Comparison of models for explaininghuman memory

3. Theories of forgetting – strengths and limitations

4. Manipulation and improvement of memory

TOPIC 3/4 – Theories of forgetting

CONCEPTS1. Forgetting and the forgetting curve

2. Measures of retention

3. Retrieval Cues

4. Retrieval failure theory and TOT

5. Interference Theory

6. Motivated forgetting

7. Decay theory

Introduction to Forgetting – Overview videos

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

Memory Game

CONCEPT 1/7 – Forgetting and the forgetting curve

CONCEPT 2/7 – Measures of retention

CONCEPT 3/7 – Retrieval Cues

CONCEPT 4/7 – Retrieval failure theory and TOT

CONCEPT 5/7 – Interference theory

CONCEPT 5/7 – Interference theory

Video Jacplus: Interference Theory

CONCEPT 6/7 – Motivated forgetting

CONCEPT 7/7 – Decay theory

DOT POINT SUMMARY #3

  

Unit 3 PsychologyChapter 8

Improving memoryEdwina Ricci

Area Study 2 – Memory

TOPICS1. Neural basis of memory

2. Models of memory3. Theories of forgetting4. Manipulation and improvement of memory

TOPIC 4/4 – Manipulation and improvement of memory

CONCEPTS1. Mnemonic devices

2. Acronyms, acrostics and narrative chaining

3. Peg-word method and method of loci

4. Reconstructive nature of memory

5. Loftus research on leading questions and eyewitness testimony

Dot Point #4: • 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 eyewitness testimonies including the reconstructive nature of memory informed by the work of Elizabeth Loftus

CONCEPT 1/5 – Mnemonic devices

CONCEPT 2/5 – Acronyms, acrostics and narrative chaining

CONCEPT 3/5 – Peg-word method and method of loci

CONCEPT 4/5 – Reconstructive nature of memory

CONCEPT 5/5 – Loftus research on leading questions and eyewitness testimony

CONCEPT 5/5 – Loftus research on leading questions and eyewitness testimony

JacPlus: Elizabeth Loftus lecture

DOT POINT SUMMARY #4