MEMORY



MEMORY

Answer the following questions to the best of your ability (pg. 365). Your answers should demonstrate your UNDERSTANDING of the material. In other words, I am not interested in answers copied directly from the book!

1. Everyone at times will forget something, only to remember what was earlier forgotten at a later time. Forgetting does not necessarily mean that we have lost forever what we have learned. Explain what this means.

2. Draw and label the forgetting curve. Describe what is depicted on your graph.

3. What are some ways you can increase your ability to remember things? Give examples to support your answer.

4. Differentiate between recall and recognition. Use examples to illustrate your response.

5. Discuss the concept of over-learning.

6. Create a mnemonic device for remembering Schacter’s 7 Sins of Memory.

7. Give an original example of chunking and describe how you could use it (or have used it) in your own learning process.

8. Teachers often use both recall & recognition in their tests. In your opinion, which method more accurately measures how much you actually know? Explain

9. What is interference? Use real examples from your own life to help describe both types of interference.

10. Using the scenario below, answer the questions that follow.

Naomi happened to be driving into the parking lot of a mall just as another shopper was being carjacked. She caught a quick glimpse of a running man who seemed to be carrying a handgun. When the police arrived at the scene, Naomi couldn’t say much about the gunman’s appearance. Nevertheless, they took her to headquarters and showed her hundreds of mug-book photographs. After many frustrating hours during which Naomi was repeatedly shown a photo of a man named Raymond but was unable to identify anyone conclusively. The investigator handed her Raymond’s photo and said, “We know this man visited the mall the night of the crime. Did you see him running in the parking lot?” When Naomi said she wasn’t sure, she was allowed to leave and asked to think more carefully about what she had seen that night. Three weeks later, Naomi was asked to pick the aggressor from a five-man lineup that included Raymond. Although she remembered feeling uncertain of the identity of the man when she was first questioned, Naomi was surprised at how easily and confidently she picked Raymond from the lineup now.

a. What’s going on in this situation? What problem are the police trying to solve?

b. Why couldn’t Naomi identify the gunman right after she witnessed the crime? Discuss all of the following in your answers: encoding, rehearsal, decay, and interference.

c. What is wrong with the police questioning procedures?

Left Page: Design a web that outlines each types of memory and illustrates how they are related or connected to one another. Be sure to include information that is biological as well as examples (Explicit, Declarative, Semantic, Episodic, Procedural, Implicit, Echoic, Iconic – pg. 2 of activity packet will help).

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