February 8, 2008

Reading:

• Moghaddam: none
• Richards: Chapter 10
• Online: Benjamin & Bruce on the research of Kellogg & Kellogg

Audio links: Part I – - Part II – - Part III

Lecture Outline:

The Kelloggs’ study

Purpose of the Kelloggs’ study

Feral children and intelligence

Method

Laboratory, naturalistic

Dependent variables, measurement

Results

Limits of environmental influence

Plasticity of mind

Ethical considerations

Contemporary primate research

Language
Tetsuro Matsuzawa and the chimps Ai and Ayumu
Anne Russon

Memory

Some questions about memory

• Where is it?
• Is studying its simplest forms the best strategy?
• Can it be improved?
• What factors influence the reliability of memory?

Rote memory research

Stimulus – Response connections

Laws of learning

Ecological validity

Common categories of memory

• Long term memory
• Declarative memory
• Procedural memory
• Episodic memory
• Short term memory
• diagram
  
• Working memory
• diagram
  

Memory and human information processing

Encoding

Storage

Retrieval

The organization of long-term memory

Networks (priming)

Hierarchical categories

Schemas (also see FM115 and Jan 28 lecture)

First memories

Improving memory

Mnemonics and visualization

Attention

Use (multiple access links)

Collective and distributive memory

Organic memory

Lamarck

Bridey Murphy

Memes – social construction processes

Reliability of memory

Reconstruction

Stereotyping

False Memory Syndrome

The kidnapping of Piaget

Eyewitness testimony

Suggestion

Goodman, G. S. (2006). Children’s eyewitness memory: A modern history and contemporary commentary. Journal of Social Issues, 62(4), 811-832.

Wells, G., et al. (2000). From the lab to the police station: A successful application of eyewitness research. American Psychologist, 55(6), 581-598.

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