Memory

=Memory= This unit examines the role of memory as well as the processes of memory formation and retrieval. Students also explore the impact of memory loss. Below are some highlights for you. Additionally, there are links to most class handouts for this unit.

1. Memory follows a three-step process and is subject to limitations.
 * Enduring Understandings:**

1. How does information move through the memory pathway / information processing system? 2. What types of memories do we store and where? 3. Why do we forget? 4. How can we remember better?
 * Essential Questions:**

Information processing, flashbulb memory, confabulation, selective attention, retroactive interference/inhibition, proactive interference/inhibition, repression, amnesia, encoding, rehearsal, short term memory, long term memory, retrieval, recall, recognition, semantic memory, procedural memory, episodic memory, declarative memory, engram/memory trace, mnemonic device
 * Key Content/Vocabulary (Not a comprehensive list!):**

//Intro to Psych// Modules 11 & 12
 * Resources:**

Lesson 1: Forming Memory

Lesson 2: Remembering & Forgetting

Lesson 3: Improving Memory


 * Assignments:**