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1. This chapter is about the process of long term memory. From beginning to end it describes the processes that make up your long term memory. Matlin divides this chapter into two parts, how we take in stimuli and encode it to memory, and then the second part handles how we retrieve it. The chapter concludes with the relationship of self and memory.

2. Long-Term memory fits into the stairway lessons that we previously have been learning. Last chapter we focused on working memory, the stimulus that you receive and may forget a moment later. This chapter focuses on the stimulus that stays. Having an understanding of how the mind sorts stimulus and allows our attention processes to work give me a better understanding of long term memory.

3. What confuses me is the underlying tone the author seems to give about all memory being the same. I liked how they used "it is a convenient way to partition the research"(p.121).It basically seems like the all the processes are similiar (different names but same process). Then another thing not quite clear about is why there is an autobiographical memory, don't all memories have to involve you?

4. Procedural memory in sports in absolutely huge. It is normally your small basic stuff, your fundamentals. These types of memories are normally implicit. This works in the form of muscle memory for basketball players. Without actively thinking about how to do a lay-up, the girls just recall how to do it and do it. --- Another example is memory of knowing where the out of bounds line is, it is not something you actively think about, but you react when you are close to that line.

5. I really do not like this question. The author of course backs up the information they give, that is rule when doing a text book. Now the author does do a good job of giving examples. Again, in procedural memory this easily fits into the game of basketball. Another section I think that is proved very well is the pollyanna Principle. I agree that pleasant stimuli is processed more effeciently than negative. This is backed up with the discussion of mood and emotion.

6. What I found important is the fact that the author stated he is not quite convinced that short term (working) and long term memory are not the same. I believe this to be quite true. Although the book describes the difference processes for each memory faze, the descriptions are quite the same. The way stimuli is processed, how it is viewed, how it is recalled. These last two chapters have done a good job pushing that opinion I thought.

7. You use your memory in all sorts of situation. Our working memory is for at this moment tasks. Depending on our interest in the task or the number of times we do it, this will carry over into our long term memory. On the floor, as a coach I watch the first few minutes of the game and I am using my working memory to view and process what is going on. To counteract what is going on, I normally access my long term memory whether it be implicitly or explicitly.

8. There are many things that can be done to help improve memory. Not how much is stored, but how we interpret stimuli, but how to recall it faster. The use of high-tech memory aids for are now available. One thing I have tried to get my girls to do is watch as much film as possible and take in as much stimuli as the mind can handle and process. This allows the process functions to have to work even more making (I believe) memory more accessible and helpful.