Human Memory - Theories, Improvement and Tests

Memory Psychology: Theories of Memory, how we remember, forgetting and how to improve your memory

Popular theories of memory functions explained and evaluated:

Multi-Store Model

Prevalent theory on the structure of human memory. Discover how the Multi-Store memory model works...

Flashbulb memories

What gives us the ability to recall vivid details about events such as September 11th? Flashbulb memories

Miller's Magic Number

Find out why many US and UK telephone numbers are 6-digits long with Miller's study. Read more...

Levels of Processing – Memory Theory

Read Craik & Tulving's 1975 explanation of Levels of Processing

How and why do we forget? What processes are involved in 'learning'?

Do we really forget?

A look at how psychologists think information can be 'forgotten' and retrieved. Do we really forget?

Peterson & Peterson (1959)

How fast does our Short-term Memory Decay? Click here

Learning: What Pavlov's Dogs Shows

Source: http://www.ivanpavlov.com/lectures/ivan_pavlov-lecture_002.htm Discover how Pavlov's investigations into digestion revolutionised our understanding of how people and animals learn:

Part One: Pavlov's Dogs and Conditioning

Part Two: What affects Conditioning?

Free Memory Improvement Articles... What do you want to remember?

The capacity of our long-term memory can be made virtually unlimited by using a variety of techniques to memorize every day names, faces, numbers and other information. All you need to do is select the correct method for the type of data you need to memorize. See below for a selection of these methods:

Remember Names: associative method

Need to put names to faces? Try the Association Method and never forget a face again! Read more...

Remember lists of information

Use the Luria method and convert lists to journeys. Read more...

Memorizing phone numbers

Use a popular mnemonics technique called the Pegword Method

Mnemonics Methods

Mnemonics form the basis of many commercial memory improvement guides. We look at what they are and how you can employ them... without the sky-high costs...

Introduction to Mnemonics - what they are and a range of techniques for remembering tidbits of facts

Need to remember anything else? The Retentive Method is a powerful method.

More ways to make your memory better...

Memory and Chewing Gum: How research at two universities found memory recall can be improved by chewing gum.

Memory and Association: Has someone you know come up to you in the street, and try as you might, you just could not remember this person's name? Put Names and Faces together and don't forget names again with this associative memory technique.

Conditioning Introduction: What is conditioning? What Pavlov's dogs experiment teaches us about how we learn.

Craik & Lockhart (1972) Levels of Processing Theory: Traditional theories of memory segmented human memory into different stores for example, the multi-store model with sensory, short-term and long-term stores. Find out how Craik & Lockhart's Level's of processing theory opposes this.

Craik & Tulving (1975) Levels of Processing: Craik & Tulving wanted to test whether the level of processing affected how well we remember information. Read an explanation and evaluation of this research.

What affects Classical Conditioning?: Issues affecting classical conditioning.