Module 33 Forgetting, Memory Construction, and Improving Memory

LEARNING TARGETS

• 33-1 Explain why we forget.
• 33-2 Discuss how misinformation, imagination, and source amnesia influence our memory construction, and describe how we decide whether a memory is real or false.
• 33-3 Analyze why reports of repressed and recovered memories have been so hotly debated.
• 33-4 Describe the reliability of young children’s eyewitness descriptions.
• 33-5 Discuss how you can use memory research findings to do better in this and other courses.