January 13, 2024

Monday January 13, 2024

Homework Quiz

Homework: 365-379

Circle: 1.What suggestions do 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.

Memory Hackers