Chapter 9: Remembering and Judging
Learning Objectives
- Compare and contrast implicit and explicit memory, identifying the features that define each.
- Explain the function and duration of eidetic and echoic memories.
- Summarize the capacities of short-term memory and explain how working memory is used to process information in it.
- Label and review the principles of encoding, storage and retrieval.
- Summarize the types of amnesia and their effects on memory.
- Describe how the context in which we learn information can influence our memory of that information.
- Outline the variables that can influence the accuracy of our memory for events.
- Explain how schemas can distort our memories.
- Describe the representativeness heuristic and the availability heuristic and explain how they may lead to errors in judgment.
