Cognitive Psychology

I.      History of Memory Research

A.    Some Classic Studies

   1.    Release from PI; Data

 2.      Serial Position Effect; Data

B.      Ebbinghaus and William James

1.   Ebbinghaus and his early studies

2.   James and his theorizing

                                                           a.      First to develop concepts of multiple memory systems

                                                          b.      Introduces terms of primary and secondary systems (Now called STM and LTM, respectively)

C.      Memory Stages

D.      Types of LTM

E.      Levels of Processing

F.      Connectionism

G.      How Many memories? – I might hold this until after all the memory chapters have been covered!