Download Cognition: Unit 7A*Memory

COGNITION:
UNIT 7A—MEMORY
Do Now:
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Describe what it might be like to have no memory?
Who would you be? How would your identity be
affected?
Eyewitness Memory
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View the video 60 Minutes: Eyewitness.
Discuss what this suggests about memory and
eyewitness testimony.
Do now: Did the Eyewitness video impact your sense
of your own memory? If so, how?
Memory: Learning that persists over
time
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Baddeley Memory Experiment: Windows & Words
Recall List Experiment
Instructions:
Get Comfortable
 Close your eyes
 Follow the instructions
Key terms:
 Primacy effect
 Recency effect
 Repetition
 Novel Stimuli
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The list of Words:
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Rest
Bed
Night
Quilt
Quiet
Artichoke
Toss
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Night
Turn
Relax
Dark
Moon
Dream
Key Terms & People
How memory works:
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Encoding
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Storage
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Retrieval
Memory Formation: A Model by Atkinson & Shiffrin
 Sensory Memory
 Short-term memory
 Long-term memory
 Working memory
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Exercise: Can you recite the second sentence of the Pledge of Allegiance?
Easy mistake: Short-term memory only lasts a minute or so. Stuff we
remember for days or weeks is in our working memory
Automatic vs. Effortful
Do Now: What does the book say about the effectiveness of
cramming for tests? What are at least three good ways to get
the most out of studying?
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Parallel processing
Automatic processing
Effortful processing
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Rehearsal
Spacing effect
Serial Position effect
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Primacy effect
Recency effect
Tools
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Mnemonics: What examples do you have that
you’ve used?
Chunking: Do you use this? How?
More Terms
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Visual encoding
Acoustic encoding
Semantic encoding
Imagery
Mnemonics
Chunking
Iconic memory
Echoic memory
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Long-term
potentiation (LTP)
Flashbulb memory
Amnesia
Implicit memory
Explicit memory
Which is more
important? Your
experiences or your
memories of them?
Some looks at crazy memory stuff
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http://www.komonews.com/sports/heroes/TinySeahawks-fan-has-encyclopedic-knowledge-of-theteam-226058821.html
Videos from Passport
Wednesday: Psych Sims in Computer Lab
Brain Games: Remember This
Key people
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Richard Atkinson
Alan Baddeley
Fergus Craik
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Eric Kandel
Jeffrey Karpicke
Karl Lashley
Elizabeth Loftus
H.M. (Henry Molaison)
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Rajan Mahadevan
George Miller
Hendry Roediger
Oliver Sacks
Daniel Schacter
James Schwartz
Richard Shiffrin
George Sperling
Endel Tulving
More key terms…
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Hippocampus
Recall
Recognition
Prelearning
Priming
Déjà vu
Mood congruent
memory
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Forgetting
 Proactive
interference
 Retroactive
interference
 Repression
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Memory Construction:
 Misinformation
effect
 Source amnesia
Unit 7B – Thinking, problem solving,
creativity & Language
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Cognition
Concept
Protype
Algorithm
Heuristic
Insight
Creativity
Confirmation bias
Fixation
Mental set
Functional fixedness
Representativeness heuristic
Availability heuristic
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Overconfidence
Belief perseverance
Intuition
Framing
Language
Phoneme
Morpheme
Grammar
Semantics
Syntax
Babbling stage
One-word stage
Telegraphic stage
Linguistic determinism
Unit 7B – Key People
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Noam Chomsky
Daniel Kahneman
Wolfgang Kohler
Wallace Lambert
Steven Pinker
Dean Keith Simonton
B.F. Skinner
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Robert Sternberg
Shelley Taylor
Amox Tversky
Peter Wason
Benjamin Lee Whorf