FOCUS/REVIEW QUESTION: Brain Games: Season 5 - Episode 6 - Memory

• Review of Selective Attention, Mnemonics, STM, Chunking, Semantic Encoding & Elaborative Rehearsal

LEARNING TARGETS:

• LTM & the Biology of Memory

  • Name and explain the major studies that led to the understanding of how memories form and are stored in the brain
  • Explain the role of the hippocampus in forming memories.

AGENDA:

• Long Term Memory & Biology of Memory PP Notes
  • Studies that show the brain's role in memory
  • Which parts of the brain are directly involved in memory and what types of memories do they effect?

• Quick review of this past week's material? Watch Crash Course #13  How We Make Memories
• 0:00  Clive Wearing case study of amnesia
• 1:45  Definition of Memory - Recall, Recognition, Relearning
• 2:55  3 Stages of Memory - Sensory, Working, Long-Term Memory
• 4:25  Working Memory - Explicit Memory, Implicit Memory
• 6:10  Types of LTM - Procedural Memory, Episodic Memory
• 7:00  Mnemonic Devices, Chunking
• 7:35  Shallow Processing vs. Deep Processing

ASSIGNMENTS:

• If you are senior who has to take your exam, arrange with me a day and time this week!

UPCOMING ASSIGNMENTS:

• Work on your Exam Review found in Google Classroom and show me it is done the day before our exam for a bonus... Study!!!!
• Review using this Quizlet!

 

FOCUS/REVIEW QUESTION: What would life be like if you had no memory? The Story of Clive Wearing (15 min)

LEARNING TARGETS:

• LTM & the Biology of Memory

  • Explain the role of the hippocampus, fusiform gyrus, cerebellum, basal ganglia and amygdala in forming memories. Know what kind of memories they are involved in forming.
  • What do case studies like HM and EP show us about how the brain works when encoding memories to LTM?
  • What's the role of the amygdala in memory?
  • How would an evolutionary psychologist explain the purpose of flashbulb memories?

AGENDA:

• Module 32: LTM & Biology of Memory PP Notes
  • Online Lecture Review of LTM (6 min)
    • What did the patient H.M. show us about the implicit memory brain path?

ASSIGNMENTS:

• Work on your Exam Review found in Google Classroom and show me it is done the day before our exam for a bonus... Study!!!!
  • Review using this Quizlet!

UPCOMING ASSIGNMENTS:

FOCUS/REVIEW QUESTION: Remembering What Matters (8 min) - What factors help and hinder our memories?

LEARNING TARGETS:

• Biology of LTM:
  • Describe Eric Kandel's sea snail experiment and how it is used as evidence for long term potentiation.
  • What are the changes that take place in long-term potentiation?
  • How does aging and culture effect memory?
• Retrieval of Memory
• What is serial position effect, primacy & recency effect?
• What kinds of retrieval tasks are easier? Recall or Recognition?
• What is priming and how does it influence memory?

AGENDA:

• LTM & Biology of Memory PP Notes
  • Online Lecture Review of LTM (6 min)
    • What did the patient H.M. show us about the implicit memory brain path?
    • Describe the Nobel Prize winning experiment about a sea snail and explain what it shows about memory.
    • What does a Sea Snail Aplysia reveal the biological process of memory? (4 min) WATCH THIS! - Watch Eric Kandel's sea snail experiment showing how long term potentiation works.
      
      
• Retrieval of Memories PP Notes - (Virtual Lecture)
  • What kinds of retrieval tasks are easier? Recall or Recognition? - Seven Dwarves Demo
  • What is priming and how does it influence memory?
    • WATCH THIS! - Great Mind Blowing Example of the Power of Priming & Source Confusion: Derren Brown - Ad Agency Priming Example (6 min).
      

ASSIGNMENTS:

• Work on your Exam Review found in Google Classroom and show me it is done the day before our exam for a bonus... Study!!!!
  • Review using this Quizlet!

UPCOMING ASSIGNMENTS:

FOCUS/REVIEW QUESTION: Semantic Network Model: How are memories connected/organized in the brain? - Spaghetti Demo - write down first 12 things that come to mind when you think of spaghetti no matter how strange.

• Now look at the connections between them. Those items at the top of your list are probably more clearly connected than those at the bottom but they are all somehow loosely connected. This is how your LTM storage system works!

LEARNING TARGETS:

• Retrieval of Memory
• Describe are the 3 types of encoding specificity retrieval cues?
• How does context effect our ability to retrieve memories?
• How does the semantic network models explain how memories are organized in LTM?
  
  
• Module 33: Memory Reconstruction
  • How accurate is our explicit episodic memory?
  • What factors can change a person's memory?
  • What factors influence our ability to remember events and their details accurately?

AGENDA:

• Retrieval of Memories PP Notes - (Virtual Lecture 0:00-10:40)
  • What kinds of retrieval tasks are easier? Recall or Recognition? - Seven Dwarves Demo
  • What is priming and how does it influence memory?
    • WATCH THIS! - Great Mind Blowing Example of the Power of Priming & Source Confusion: Derren Brown - Ad Agency Priming Example (6 min).
  • How does context effect our ability to retrieve memories?
  • What is Encoding Specificity and what are the different types?
    
    
• Dateline NBC Eyewitness Test (Watch 1:00 first and then the rest) or use segments from DVD
• How accurate was your description?
• How can our memories & ideas be influenced?
• Discuss the implications of this video.
  
  

Extend Your Learning: Chromebook Activities:

• How can neuroscience improve eyewitness testimony? (4 min)
• Bomber on the Roof Eyewitness Test - How good of an eyewitness would you be?
  • Do any of these people look like the bomber? Suspect Lineup
  • What is being done to guard against eyewitness mistakes? See how this "Bomber" test is used in this 60 Minutes clip (13 min)

ASSIGNMENTS:

• Work on your Exam Review found in Google Classroom and show me it is done the day before our exam for a bonus... Study!!!!
  • Review using this Quizlet!

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FOCUS/REVIEW QUESTION: Could you be a good eyewitness?  Brain Games: Eyewitness Testimony Demo (6 min)

LEARNING TARGETS:

Memory Reconstruction

• How accurate is our explicit episodic memory?
• What factors can change a person's memory?
• What factors influence our ability to remember events and their details accurately?
• Describe the Loftus study and explain what it reveals about memory.
• How do schemas & source confusion contribute to false memories?
• How does Deja Vu occur?
• What do we need to do when taking testimony from children?

AGENDA:

• Memory Construction (Virtual Lecture)
• What factors influence and alter your memories?
• How is memory a construction?  Elizabeth Loftus Life Story
  • *Loftus' Car Study Explained - Watch starting 1:20-5:35 (4 min)
  • *Watch 60 Minutes Segment (1 min): Creating False Disney Memories - Elizabeth Loftus
  • *Watch How to Implant False Memories - Lost in a Shopping Mall (4 min) - Elizabeth Loftus study.
• Want to check out the current research by Elizabeth Loftus?
  • What's the Matter with Memory? TED Talk

ASSIGNMENTS:

• Work on your Exam Review found in Google Classroom and show me it is done the day before our exam for a bonus... Study!!!!
  • Review using this Quizlet!

UPCOMING ASSIGNMENTS:

FOCUS/REVIEW QUESTION: Recreating a Deja-vu experience - DEMONSTRATION

LEARNING TARGETS:

Forgetting:

• Explain where forgetting occurs in the memory process
• Explain the difference between Anterograde & Retrograde Amnesia
• Explain the process of memory consolidation and how it can be disrupted and improved
• Describe Herman Ebbinghaus's study on forgetting and his forgetting curve & how it shows storage failure.
• What is decay & how does it relate to memory?
• Name & explain the different kinds of retrieval failures.
• Explain the difference between proactive and retroactive interference.

AGENDA:

Forgetting & Improvement (Virtual Lecture)

• Where in the memory processes does forgetting occur?
  • Demonstrating Encoding Failure – How much of what we see everyday do we actually encode and remember?  Some things you see but don’t know.

• Can we forget on purpose? A Number You'll Never Forget - DEMO
• Psych in the Fast Lane: Retroactive and Proactive Interference Explained (2 min)
• Would it be great to remember everything? Watch the amazing memory of The Woman Who Never Forgets - Watch first 5 min.

ASSIGNMENTS:

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