• define and describe the importance of automaticity in cogntive theory;
• describe real "amnesia" as opposed to what is portrayed in movies and film;
• describe the differences between working and long term memory;
• describe the differences between declarative and procedural learning;
• define and describe episodic memory;
• describe the ways in which long term meory is thought to be encoded;
• describe implicit and explicit memory.

Please listen to this presentation

Please read:

[Ormrod, J. E. (2007) Chapter 8. Long-Term Memory I: Storage (p. 194-231)]
[Ormrod, J. E. (2007) Chapter 9. Long-Term Memory II: (p. 232-281)]

Please review this presentation:

Working Memory & Long Term Storage (15.5 minutes, 9.5 MB)

The Nature of Knowedge (15.5minutes, 11MB)

Blog 2 - Review the instructions in the blog

Optional Elluminate Session - Thursday, Sept 22nd 7:00 PM

Nova ScienceNow: How Memory Works (the story of patient HM) - (~9 minutes) - This short video is very relevant as it describes how Long term works and demonstrates how life would be without it. It also shows the differences between declarative and procedural memory.

Think you are an auditory or visual learner? Scientists say it's unlikely. - Take a minute to listen to this podcast. Here's an article ( Learning Styles: Concepts and Evidence) by the scientist interviewed if you have time.

Prosopagnosia - This video shows a woman's with a medical condition, the inability to recall faces. Facial recogntion requires the use of long term memory (LTM) and the "reconstruction" of visual information (Retrieval). It seems something as simple as facial recognition even requires your long term memory.