Week 7 · Readings & resources

Week 7 — Readings & Resources

Introduction to Psychology Free sample edition

Your primary reading is Chapter 7 (in this module). Everything below is the optional, go-deeper layer — pick what helps, skip the rest.

How to use this page

This page has 11 items (5 readings and 6 videos). Allow 67–82 minutes for everything. Each group points back to the matching chapter section and class-session segment, so use the full menu when you want more practice, or take the quick path below.

Every video here has captions: turn them on with the CC button in the player. The chapter covers the same ideas in text.

Pick-one quick path (20–20 min total)

① How does a memory get in and stay? Stages, chunks, and spacing

Chapter 7, Section “Trace the three-stage model: sensory, short-term, and long-term memory” · Session 1, Segment 2, “Sensory, short-term, and long-term memory” · Remember: information moves from sensory memory to short-term memory to long-term memory, and how you encode it decides whether it stays.

How We Make Memories: Crash Course Psychology #13 — CrashCourse — a fast tour of encoding, working memory, explicit and implicit memory, chunking, and shallow versus deep processing; it also names a few memory tricks the chapter does not test. (video, 10 min) (captions: creator)
Types of memory — Queensland Brain Institute — a brain research institute's short guide to short-term and working memory and to the explicit and implicit kinds of long-term memory; it leaves out sensory memory, the first and briefest stage in the chapter's model, and the chapter's numbers are the ones this course uses. (reading, 3–5 min)
Ask the Cognitive Scientist: Massed versus Distributed Practice — American Federation of Teachers — a cognitive scientist explains why spreading study across sessions beats cramming; read the opening question and the answer's first sections, and skip the later classroom detail if you are short on time. (reading, 8–12 min)
Spaced Practice: A Video for Students — The Learning Scientists — a cognitive psychologist shows how to turn one long study session into several short ones; use it to plan your next week of study. (video, 4 min) (captions: automatic)

② Why do memories fade? The forgetting curve and interference

Chapter 7, Section “Measure forgetting: the forgetting curve and interference” · Session 2, Segment 6, “The forgetting curve and interference” · Remember: most forgetting happens soon after learning, and interference runs both ways, old blocking new and new blocking old.

The forgetting curve — Teaching and Academic Programs (TAP) — a learning-support office's short explainer of Ebbinghaus's curve and how review interrupts forgetting; use it while working through the Week-7 module overview. (video, 3 min) (captions: automatic)
Remembering and Forgetting: Crash Course Psychology #14 — CrashCourse — retrieval cues, forgetting, interference, and misinformation in one episode; it also covers priming and the serial position effect, which this course does not test. (video, 10 min) (captions: creator)

③ Can a sure memory be wrong? Reconstruction, eyewitnesses, and the brain

Chapter 7, Section “Rebuild, don't replay: reconstructive memory and the misinformation effect” · Session 2, Segment 7, “Reconstructive memory and the misinformation effect” · Remember: recall rebuilds a memory each time, so a leading question can add a detail and confidence alone is not proof.

Loftus and Palmer 1974 Car Crash Experiment — Simply Psychology — read the aim, procedure, and findings of both experiments, then the evaluation; where a figure differs from the chapter, the chapter's pinned numbers are the ones this course uses. (reading, 8–12 min)
Eye Witness Testimony: Loftus & Palmer (1974) Car Crash Experiment — Psychology Unlocked — a walk-through of the verb experiment and what it means for eyewitnesses in real cases. (video, 8 min) (captions: automatic)
Eyewitness Confidence Can Predict Accuracy of Identifications, Researchers Find — Association for Psychological Science — a research summary that sharpens the chapter's rule: a witness's confidence at the very first identification, under careful procedures, carries information, while confidence that grows later, after feedback or repetition, does not. (reading, 4–6 min)
Who was Patient HM? — World Science Festival — a neuroscientist explains what one man's surgery revealed about the hippocampus and the different kinds of memory. This builds on Week 3's work with the hippocampus and the case of H.M. (video, 4 min) (captions: automatic)

Optional one-stop reference (free online reference)

Brain Basics: Know Your Brain — National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke — a federal health agency's plain-language reference on the brain; open The Inner Brain for the hippocampus and the amygdala, and skip the rest unless you are curious. (reading, 5–8 min)

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