Unit+7-+Learning

=Jan. 3. 2012.............................................................................=

In this activity you’ll be able to test the reliability of your memory, and then learn what researchers have discovered about the way that memories are stored and modified by new information.

• According to researchers, what are the three memory processes?
 * Measuring Memory **

1. Encode

2.Store

3.Retrieve

• How do recall tasks differ from recognition tasks?

• What was your score on the Recall Test? ___7/15_________
 * A Look at Your Performance **

• What was your score on the Recognition Test? ______14/15______

• What was your pattern of performance across the 15 words? Did your performance show a serial position effect? Yes there was a small serial position effect.
 * Examining Your Performance: Serial Position Effect **

• Did your performance show an advantage for recognition over recall?
 * Examining Your Performance: Recall Versus Recognition **

• What is a “false memory?”
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Examining Your Performance: False Memory **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">• Did you show false recall or false recognition for “sleep”? If so, why do you think this happened?

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">If not, why do you think your performance was different from the Roediger & McDermott study?

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">• List and briefly explain the two “sins of forgetting” especially relevant to the topic of false memories: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">1.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Other Ways We Create False Memories **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">2.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">• How might memory distortions affect eyewitness testimony?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Application: Eyewitness Testimony **