After completing this chapter, you should be able to:
- Explain the inaccuracy of reconstructed memories.
- Discuss how memory is vulnerable to suggestion.
- Understand the way in suggestability can influence the memories of children's and eyewitness testimony.
- Distinguish between implicit and explicit memory, and provide examples of how both types are measured.
- Compare and contrast the information-processing and the parallel distributed processing models of memory.
- Describe the three separate memory systems in the three-box model of memory.
- Summarize distinctions among long-term memories.
- Explain the serial-position effect.
- Identify and describe strategies for retention.
- Identify and discuss five mechanisms to account for forgetting.
- Define childhood amnesia and cite biological and cognitive explanations for this phenomenon.
