cognition: unit 7a—memory. do now: describe what it might be like to have no memory? who would...
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Do Now:
Describe what it might be like to have no memory? Who would you be? How would your identity be affected?
Eyewitness Memory
View the video 60 Minutes: Eyewitness. Discuss what this suggests about
memory and eyewitness testimony. Do now: Did the Eyewitness video impact
your sense of your own memory? If so, how?
Recall List Experiment
Get Comfortable Close your eyes Follow the instructionsKey terms: Primacy effect Recency effect Repetition Novel Stimuli
Rest Bed Night Quilt Quiet Artichok
e Toss
Instructions: The list of Words:
Night Turn Relax Dark Moon Dream
Key Terms & People
How memory works:EncodingStorage Retrieval
Memory Formation: A Model by Atkinson & ShiffrinSensory MemoryShort-term memoryLong-term memoryWorking memory
Exercise: Can you recite the second sentence of the Pledge of Allegiance? Easy mistake: Short-term memory only lasts a minute or so. Stuff we
remember for days or weeks is in our working memory
Automatic vs. Effortful
Do Now: What does the book say about the effectiveness of cramming for tests? What are at least three good ways to get the most out of studying?
Parallel processingAutomatic processingEffortful processing
Rehearsal Spacing effect
Serial Position effect Primacy effect Recency effect
More Terms
Visual encoding Acoustic encoding Semantic encoding Imagery Mnemonics Chunking Iconic memory Echoic memory
Long-term potentiation (LTP)
Flashbulb memory Amnesia Implicit memory Explicit memory
Which is more important? Your experiences or your memories of them?
Some looks at crazy memory stuff http://www.komonews.com/sports/heroes
/Tiny-Seahawks-fan-has-encyclopedic-knowledge-of-the-team-226058821.html
Videos from Passport Wednesday: Psych Sims in Computer
Lab Brain Games: Remember This
Key people
Richard Atkinson Alan Baddeley Fergus Craik Hermann Ebbinghaus Eric Kandel Jeffrey Karpicke Karl Lashley Elizabeth Loftus H.M. (Henry
Molaison)
Rajan Mahadevan George Miller Hendry Roediger Oliver Sacks Daniel Schacter James Schwartz Richard Shiffrin George Sperling Endel Tulving
More key terms…
Hippocampus Recall Recognition Prelearning Priming Déjà vu Mood congruent
memory
Forgetting Proactive
interference Retroactive
interference Repression
Memory Construction: Misinformation
effect Source amnesia
Unit 7B – Thinking, problem solving, creativity & Language
Cognition Concept Protype Algorithm Heuristic Insight Creativity Confirmation bias Fixation Mental set Functional fixedness Representativeness
heuristic Availability heuristic
Overconfidence Belief perseverance Intuition Framing Language Phoneme Morpheme Grammar Semantics Syntax Babbling stage One-word stage Telegraphic stage Linguistic determinism