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Have You Been Drinking…or Just Thinking? A Look into the Effects of Drinking on Memory.
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Running Head: MEMORY LOSS FROM DRINKING Have You Been Drinking...or Just Thinking? A Look into the Effects of Drinking on Memory Simon Fraser University Have You Been Drinking...or Just Thinking? A Look into the Effects of Drinking on Memory Alcohol consumption is an evident epidemic among today's vast society, and overwhelming evidence from past research supports the idea that alcohol intoxication has observable effects on memory (Kirchner & Sayette, 2003; Parker, Birnbaum, & Noble, 1976; Tracy & Bates, 1999). There is a common aspect about memory which is discussed within these experiments. Mainly, all three experimental procedures directly identify two important affected phases of memory, "learning" and "recalling". Research by both Kirchner & Sayette (2003) and Tracy & Bates (1999) respectively studied the combination of effects on "Controlled and Automatic" memory and "Automatic and Effortful" memory, by alcohol. Although the two different experiments used different words to describe the aspects of memory they were studying,...
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