Assignment title: Information
Understanding Long-Term Memory
The goal of this discussion forum is to enhance your understanding of memory phenomena. For
your initial post, complete the following steps:
Watch the following video: How Does Your Memory Work?
Optional Suppport:
o Go to the Coglab to experience one of the procedures/tasks that scientists have
used to investigate attention and its different manifestations.
o Select one of the following experiments:
Serial Position (i.e., how memory for a list depends on items' positions
Implicit Learning (i.e., how learning occurs without awareness)
Suffix Effect (i.e., how adding an irrelevant item to the end of a list affects
within the list)
recall of the final items). (Only covered in CogLab)
Keep in mind that each experiment illustrates a procedure/task that is used by scientists to
understand how long-term memory functions. Read the section of the textbook devoted to the
selected experiment. Then, consider what participants' performance on the corresponding task
tells you about long-term memory and its strengths and weaknesses. Also, consider the extent to
which the results of the selected experiment apply to real-life experiences and settings. Support
your points with evidence from at least one peer-reviewed research article. Your initial post
must be a minimum of 300 words.