February 9, 2024

Thursday February 9, 2024

Hand Back Tests: Learning

Homework due for Thursday: 350-364

Circle: 1.What suggestions to you have for me that would help you to understand the material?  What improvements do you think you need to make?  2. Beach or lake?

Memory-the persistence of learning over time through the storage and retrieval of information

Three basic steps in the information processing model: Encoding, storage and retrieval.

Module 31

Activity: Can you answer these questions?

1. What is memory and how is it measured?

2. How do psychologists describe the human memory system?

3. How do explicit and implicit memories differ?

4. What information do we process automatically?

5. How does sensory memory work?

6. What is our short-term and working memory capacity?

Module 32

1. What is the capacity of long-term memory?  Are our long-term memories processed and stored in specific locations?

2. What roles do the frontal lobes and hippocampus play in memory processing?

3. What roles do the cerebellum and basal ganglia play in memory processing?

4. How do emotions affect our memory processing?

5. How do changes at the synapse level affect our memory processing?

6. How do external cues, internal emotions, and order of appearance influence memory retrieval?

Student Activity: M32: Fact or Falsehood?
Student Activity: M32: Flashbulb Memory
Student Activity: M32: Retrieval Cues
Teacher Demonstration: M32: Expertise and Retrieval Rates 
Student Activity: M32: Serial Position Effects in Recall

Module 33

1. Explain why we forget.

2. Discuss how misinformation, imagination, and source amnesia influence our memory construction, and describe how we decide whether a memory is real or false.

3. Analyze why reports of repressed and recovered memories have been so hotly debated.

4. Describe the reliability of young children's eyewitness descriptions.

5. Discuss how you can use memory research findings to do better in this and other courses.

Activity: How good is your memory? You will be testing your memory using something that you think you know very well.  How good is you memory and what could you do to improve it?  Blank Home Screen, Default Screen, List your app library in order.

Thought Question: Do you think it's possible that someone could convince you that you had committed a crime, even for a crime that never happened?  What do you think is wrong with someone who confesses to a crime they didn't commit?

Memory Hackers

1. What are some of the most surprising ways that people have been able to enhance their memories according to the documentary "Memory Hackers"?

2. How do scientists believe that memories are formed and stored in the brain, and what implications does this have for memory hacking?

3. What role does the hippocampus play in memory formation, and how have researchers been able to manipulate it to enhance or erase memories?

4. What are some of the ethical concerns surrounding memory hacking, and how do researchers plan to address them?

5. How have people with conditions like PTSD and Alzheimer's disease been able to benefit from memory hacking techniques?

6. What impact do emotions have on memory formation, and how have scientists been able to manipulate emotional responses to enhance memories?

7. How have individuals been able to use technology like brain implants and virtual reality to enhance their memories, and what are some of the limitations of these techniques?

8. What have researchers learned from studying individuals with exceptional memories, and how might these findings be applied to memory hacking?

9. What are some of the potential future applications of memory hacking, and how might they impact society?

10. How have ancient memory techniques, like the method of loci, been used and adapted in modern memory hacking?