Chapter 4 & Chapter 5
Links and Demonstrations
Links: People
Richard C. Atkinson
- current president of the UC system and former memory researcher who, along with
Richard M. Shiffrin
, developed the modal memory model.
Fergus Craik
, Robert Lockhart, and
Endel Tulving
developed and refined the levels of processing approach.
Herman Ebbinghaus
- a brief description of his work in memory and
some additional biographical information
.
Margaret Intons-Peterson
- at the University of Minnesota.
Saul Sternberg
- at the University of Pennsylvania with abstracts to his recent work.
Mary Calkins
(who invented the paired-associates technique) and
Margaret Floy Washburn
(Edward Titchener's first female student) were cognitive psychologists and two of the first women in psychology.
Links: Articles and Research
The Magical Number Seven,
Plus or Minus Two
: Some Limits on Our Capacity for Processing Information by George A. Miller
Working Memory and Schizophrenia
- a brief description of some new research findings. See additional research on cognitive processes in schizophrenia and other psychiatric disorders from the
Archives of General Psychiatry
.
Links: Concepts
Levels of Processing Theory
- as defined in the Univerisity of Alberta's
Cognitive Science Dictionary
.
Models of Human Memory
- tutorials on the mathematical models of human memory.
Dictionary of Philosophy of Mind
- with entries for
memory
,
short-term memory
, and
long-term memory
.
Demos
See
an animated memory model
.
Free Recall
- How many letters can you remember? What about
numbers
?
Depth of Processing
- Does what you do matter when you try to remember?
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