Invitation to Psychology
Interactive Chapter Guide Contents

Chapter Seven: Memory

INTRODUCTION

This chapter explores the structures that underly our amazing capacity to retain and retrieve information. It also explores the kinds of errors in our memory processes that can produce a variety of memory distortions, including memories of events that never happened.

KEY CONCEPTS

Each link will take you to a specific concept section of the Interactive Chapter Guide:

Reconstructing the Past
Measuring Memory
The Three-Box Model of Memory
How We Remember
Why We Forget
Autobiographical Memories
Taking Psychology With You: How to ..uh..Remember
Looking Back: Review of the What's Ahead Questions

First Concept: Reconstructing the Past