Chapter 7 – Memory
Web Resources
Would you like to test your memory?
The Exploratory Memory Exhibit is from the Exploratorium Science Museum in San Francisco, CA, and this website contains numerous articles, lectures, self-tests, on-line exhibits, and even a sheep brain dissection that help you explore and understand memory processes.
Want to improve your memory?
The Mind Tools web site is created to enhance memory processes through knowledge and skills related to learning, memory and processing.
Need further help with your memory?
This web site provides a wealth of tutorials, activities, tips and tricks to improve your overall memory skills.
Need help with your study habits?
This website provides a list of memory and learning principles directly related to study skills. It also offers explanations of what brain research has discovered about each of these principles. Be sure to check out the links to "organization" and "distributed practice."
Still confused about repressed versus false memories?
This APA sponsored website provides answers to frequently asked questions and links to related scientific articles. If you want to visit a website that presents the false memory perspective, try the web site of the False Memory Syndrome Foundation (FMSF), which is dedicated to providing individuals and families information and resources relating to false memories.
Shuffle Brain
This site details brain and memory functions. The name of the site is derived from a salamander at the lab that has successfully survived a frog’s brain transplant.
Research Index of Knowledge, Simulation of Human Memory
This site provides links to other memory-oriented sites.
Mind Tools: Memory Techniques and Mnemonics
This page gives you access to powerful methods for significantly improving your memory.
Elizabeth Loftus Homepage
This site contains links to books and articles written by the number one authority on eyewitness testimony.
Alzheimer's Association
This is a great place to find current information on Alzheimer's disease.
Exploratorium: Memory Exhibits
This Web site provides a tour of more than 40 exhibits grouped into six broad areas of memory-related topics.
Journal of Experimental Psychology
The above link will take you to the homepage of this APA publication. Each month you can view the table of contents for the journal and read one or two full text articles.
American Psychological Association: Questions and Answers about Memories of Childhood Abuse
From the Web site: “Following are some questions and answers that reflect the best current knowledge about reported memories of childhood abuse. They will help you better understand how repressed, recovered, or suggested memories may occur and what you can do if you or a family member is concerned about a childhood memory.”
Ground Lost: The False Memory/Recovered Memory Therapy Debate
From the Web site: “The recovered memory debate has been the most acrimonious, vicious and hurtful internal controversy in the history of modern psychiatry. From its very beginning in the late 1980s, it has been more an ‘ad hominem’ war, appealing to feelings and prejudices, rather than a matter of reasoned professional disagreement. As such, it has demonstrated the wisdom of Louis Nizer's cogent observation that "mud thrown is ground lost" (Nizer, 1966). In this case, as we shall see, the ground lost has been considerable, and science, law and psychiatry have suffered the main casualties.”
The Anatomy of a Head Injury
This Web page provides valuable information about head injuries and was written by Eric A. Roy, Ph.D., C.Psych.,Professor and Director for the Centre for Habilitation Education and Research.