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The memory paper will test your ability to think, generate hypotheses, and, in general, apply psychological science. The task will be to take a position in a current debate in memory science. You will then have to support your position by drawing on the data that are available on the topic. The goal is to convince readers that the position you take is correct by presenting the relevant data on the topic. Writing that both positions are correct will automatically result in a deduction of points. Think of this as a “debate” in which your job is to argue one of the positions. Your feelings and impressions are not relevant in this paper; rather it is scientific data that you must draw upon. You do not have to be balanced. Choose arguments that support your position, and refute arguments that may support the other position. Choose one topic from the list below. You must answer the question in approximately 1,000 words. You must craft your argument to fit into the word limit. The word limit refers to the body of your paper and does not include the title page, references, and any supplemental material you add.
Topics:
• Distributed vs. Massed practice: which produces better learning
• Childhood amnesia: theoretical explanations
• the generation effect
• own-race bias and memory for faces
• encoding specificity
• flashbulb memories: special mechanism or general mechanism
• critical intrusions: what causes false memories in the DRM?
• survival processing: Naire and Pandeierada (2007)