FOCUS/REVIEW QUESTION: Memory Demo - Remote Associations:  Fold a piece of paper into three columns - How much can you remember without trying?

LEARNING TARGETS:

• MODULE 2.6: RETRIEVING MEMORIES:
  • Explain how external cues, internal emotions, and order of appearance influence memory retrieval.
    • How does the semantic network models explain how memories are organized in LTM?
    • What kinds of retrieval tasks are easier? Recall or Recognition?
    • What is priming and how does it influence memory?

AGENDA:

• QUIZ OVER MODULES 2.3-2.5 TODAY!
• Module 2.6: Retrieval of Memory (Virtual Lecture watch up to 9:03)
  • 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!
      

ASSIGNMENTS:

• Read and take notes over Module 2.7: Forgetting & Other Memory Challenges (pg. 238-253) - WEDNESDAY.

UPCOMING ASSIGNMENTS:

• EXTRA CREDIT: Listen to the podcast(s) below and then complete the Podcast/Article Summary Sheet. + 1 point (limit 2 points per unit)
  • Elizabeth Loftus TED Talk (17 min): The Fiction of Memory
  • You Are Here! - RadioLab segment on how the brain makes mental maps and what it would be like to suddenly lose your sense of where you are at (20 min).
  • Listen to Malcolm Gladwell's Revisionist History Podcast: Free Brian Williams (37 min)

FOCUS/REVIEW QUESTION: Memory Demo - Remote Associations Revisited.

LEARNING TARGETS:

• MODULE 2.6: RETRIEVING MEMORIES:
  • Explain how external cues, internal emotions, and order of appearance influence memory retrieval.
    • What is priming and how does it influence memory?
    • Describe are the 3 types of encoding specificity retrieval cues?
    • How does context effect our ability to retrieve memories?
    • What is serial position effect, primacy & recency effect?
  • Explain how retrieval practice strategies, such as testing effect, interleaving, and metacognition, support memory retrieval.

AGENDA:

• Module 2.6: Retrieval of Memory (Virtual Lecture 9:03-END)
  • 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?
  • 12 Days of Memory - A Memory Sing-a-Long! - Try singing this song. How do the lines your remember and forget demontrate what we've learned on memory?

ASSIGNMENTS:

• Read and take notes over Module 2.7: Forgetting & Other Memory Challenges (pg. 238-253) - TOMORROW.
• Start studying for our Memory Unit Test! Test will be at the end of the week!

UPCOMING ASSIGNMENTS:

• EXTRA CREDIT: Listen to the podcast(s) below and then complete the Podcast/Article Summary Sheet. + 1 point (limit 2 points per unit)
  • Elizabeth Loftus TED Talk (17 min): The Fiction of Memory
  • You Are Here! - RadioLab segment on how the brain makes mental maps and what it would be like to suddenly lose your sense of where you are at (20 min).
  • Listen to Malcolm Gladwell's Revisionist History Podcast: Free Brian Williams (37 min)
  
  

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

LEARNING TARGETS:

MODULE 2.7: FORGETTING & OBSTACLES TO MEMORY:

• 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
• How does forgetting occur in the three memory processes: Encoding, Storage, & Retrieval?

AGENDA:

• Module 2.7: Forgetting & Other Memory Challenges Notes (Virtual Lecture watch up to 18:10)
• 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.

ASSIGNMENTS:

• Study for our Memory Unit Test! Essay Test - FRIDAY. MC Test is TUESDAY!

UPCOMING ASSIGNMENTS:

FOCUS/REVIEW QUESTION: Could you be a good eyewitness? 

• 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.

LEARNING TARGETS:

MODULE 2.7

• FORGETTING:
• 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.
• Can forgetting be done on purpose? Repression & Suppression
• Why do memory experts reject the idea of repressed memories coming forth in therapy?
  
  
• MEMORY RECONSTRUCTION
• How accurate is our explicit episodic memory?

AGENDA:

• Module 2.7: Forgetting & Other Memory Challenges Notes (Virtual Lecture 18:10 - END)
  • 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)

ASSIGNMENTS:

• ESSAY TEST - TOMORROW! - Look over your previous AAQ to remind yourself how to do one of these types of essays.
• MC TEST over Modules 2.3 - 2.7 TUESDAY! STUDY! (See tomorrow's Assignments for a list of study resources)

UPCOMING ASSIGNMENTS:

• Read & take notes on Module 1.1: Interaction of Heredity & Environment (pg. 3-21) for THURSDAY.
  

FOCUS/REVIEW QUESTION: What was that number you were supposed to forget?

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?
• How can we use memory research findings to do better in our classes?

AGENDA:

• AAQ Research Based Essay Today!
  
  
• Module 2.7: Reconstruction of Memory Notes (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 60 Minutes Segment (1 min): Creating False Line-Up 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
  • Do kids have a better memories than adults?
  • Improving our memories for class!
    
    
• Extend Your Learning: Chromebook Activities:
  • Could you be a good eyewitness?  Brain Games: Eyewitness Testimony Demo (16 min)
  • 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:

• MC TEST over Modules 2.3 - 2.7 TUESDAY! STUDY!
• STUDY FOR YOUR TEST!
  • How to Study for AP Psych MC Test Questions
  • Use your Study Outline notes (available on Google Classroom) and class PP notes (Psych Happens site) to help you!
  • Psych with Port online video lectures
  • Psych Weblinks Page - Choose from a variety of practice quizzes, demos, class notes, videos to help you study.
  • Practice Tests:
    • Mr. Portenga's Practice Test (secret word for practice tests is always ghhs)
    • Memory Practice Test 2
  • Quia Website Review Games
  • Quizlet Vocab Review - To use these you must "join" our class using this LINK.
  • Memory Kahoot!
  • Review of Biology of Memory using Kahoot!
  • Crash Course Psychology - How We Make Memories (9 minute review)
    • 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
  • Crash Course Psychology - Remembering & Forgetting (10 minute review)
    • 0:00  Case Study of Banana Thief
    • 1:10  Implicit vs. Explicit Memory, Retrieval
    • 2:00  Memory Web - Retrieval Cues, Priming, Context-Dependent Memory
    • 3:30  State-Dependent & Mood Congruent Memories
    • 4:00  Serial Position Effect, Primacy Effect, Recency Effect
    • 4:40  Forgetting - Encoding, Retrieval, Storage Decay
    • 5:40  Ebbinghaus Forgetting Curve
    • 6:00  Retrieval Failure, Interference, Proactive & Retroactive Interference
    • 6:50  Memory Reconstruction - Misinformation Effect - Elizabeth Loftis Experiment (Car Accident: Smash vs Hit), Source Misattribution
  • FLIP IT Videos: Miss a day in class or need a review of a topic? These online lectures can help you gain a better understanding of some key concepts from the chapter!
    • Improving Encoding (4 min)
    • Improving Retrieval (5 min)
    • Long Term Potentiation (2 min)
    • Misinformation Effect & Source Amnesia (5 min)
    • Retroactive & Proactive Interference (4 min)
  • Memory PowerPoint Flash Cards (All chapters can be found on Psych Happens Page)

UPCOMING ASSIGNMENTS:

• Read & take notes on Module 1.1: Interaction of Heredity & Environment (pg. 3-21) for THURSDAY.