“Life without memory is no life at all, just as intelligence without the possibility of expression is not really intelligence. Our memory is a coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action.
Without it, we are nothing.” – Louis Buñuel
BASIC MEMORY MODEL
What we usually think of as “memory” in day-to-day usage is actually long-term memory, but there are also important short-term and sensory memory processes, which must be worked through before a long-term memory can be established. The different types of memory each have their own particular mode of operation, but they all cooperate in the process of memorization, and can be seen as three necessary steps in forming a lasting memory.
8 TYPES of MEMORY
ATKINSON SHIFFRIN MODEL
HOW WE MAKE MEMORIES
A detailed explanation of the Working Memory aka “Short Term Memory (STM)”
How Your “WORKING MEMORY” Makes Sense of the World
“Life comes at us very quickly, and what we need to do is take that amorphous flow of experience and somehow extract meaning from it.” In this funny, enlightening talk, educational psychologist Peter Doolittle details the importance — and limitations — of your “working memory,” that part of the brain that allows us to make sense of what’s happening right now.
How RELIABLE Is Your Memory?
University of Washington Psychologist Elizabeth Loftus studies memories. More precisely, she studies FALSE MEMORIES, when people either remember things that didn’t happen or remember them differently from the way they really were–the MISINFORMATION EFFECT.
It’s more common than you might think, and Loftus shares some startling stories and statistics and raises some important ethical questions we should all remember to consider.
Dr. Loftus is famous for her work debunking the reliability of “Eyewitness Testimony” (episodic memory) in criminal justice cases.
If we are a collection of our memories, HOW WELL DO YOU KNOW YOURSELF?
This MindField video shows how your present can be changed by recreating your past through False Memories.
It takes Elizabeth Loftus’s work and puts a fun spin on it using four test subjects. Watch Now
Video Time: 25:47
At the end of this video you will be able to understand and give an examples of the following ten items:
- INTROSPECTION ILLUSION
- CHOICE BLINDNESS
- FABRICATION
- JUSTIFICATION
- RETROGRADE AMNESIA
- FALSE MEMORY
- PLANTED MEMORIES
- SUSCEPTIBLE
- INNOCENCE PROJECT
- WHAT DOES THIS SUGGEST ABOUT YOUR PERSONAL CONFIDENCE?
FAMOUS PSYCHOLOGIST: Elizabeth Loftus (University of Washington)
OPTIONALLY, for students who may be interested in more information on the work of Elizabeth Loftus:
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