Do Now: Write your name on the slip of paper handed to you. HW Thursday, January 7, 2016 Aim: Students will be able to understand how we make and lose memories. Do Now: Write your name on the slip of paper handed to you. HW Read powerpoint for tomorrow Cognition homework due Jan 19 Cognition exam Jan 22

Announcement Benchmark exam next Tuesday/Wednesday (multiple choice) I will be starting AP Psych review sessions in the month of February on Wednesdays/Thursdays from 2:20-3:30/4 (depending on topic/activity) Topic calendar coming soon AP Psych exam on Monday, May 2, 2016 (12pm) 2 hours long Multiple (100 questions) 1 hr. 10 minutes FRQ (2 of them): 50 minutes

7. Jonathan has just finished a test in his Algebra II class 7. Jonathan has just finished a test in his Algebra II class. He was very surprised to find no math questions on the test. Instead, there was a poem to interpret. Jonathan is raising a concern about which of the following testing principles? A validity B standardization C factor analysis D reliability E norms

Mnemonics and Chunking Aim: Students will be able to understand how we make and lose memories. Mnemonics and Chunking Chunking http://www.youramazingbrain.org.uk/yourmemory/chunk01.htm Mnemonics

False Memories Exclusive: The Bunny Effect Aim: Students will be able to understand how we make and lose memories. False Memories Exclusive: The Bunny Effect http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZlPzSeUDDw&feature=relmfu

The Rumor Chain I will send 3 people outside of the classroom Aim: Students will be able to understand how we make and lose memories. The Rumor Chain I will send 3 people outside of the classroom While they are out, I will read aloud a paragraph length story to a student whose task is to repeat the story as completely as possible to one of the students who is brought back into the classroom The newcomer’s task is to repeat the story to the next student and so on until the last student who hears the story repeats it to the class. Each rendition of the story should be loud enough so that everyone can hear *don’t laugh when errors are made because this may cause the storyteller to notice and attempt to correct mistakes Take notes to track the errors made

Constructed Memories: The Rumor Chain Aim: Students will be able to understand how we make and lose memories. Constructed Memories: The Rumor Chain A TWA Boeing 747 had just taken off from Miami International Airport for Los Angeles when a Passenger near the rear of the aircraft announced that the plane was being taken over by the People’s Revolutionary Army For the Liberation of the Oppressed. The hijacker then held a 357 Magnum to the head of Jack Swanson, a flight attendant, and forced him to open the cockpit door. There, the hijacker confronted the pilot, Jane Randall, and ordered her to change the course for Cuba. The pilot radioed the Miami Air Traffic Control Center to report the situation. Then suddenly she hurled the microphone at the hijacker who fell backward through the open cockpit door onto the floor, where the angry passengers took over from there. The plane landed back in Miami a few minutes later and the hijacker was arrested.

Misinformation Effect Aim: Students will be able to understand how we make and lose memories. Misinformation Effect Depiction of Accident

Misinformation Effect Aim: Students will be able to understand how we make and lose memories. Misinformation Effect Leading Question: About how fast were the cars going when they smashed into each other?

Eidetic Memory The Truth about photographic memory: What do you think? Aim: Students will be able to understand how we make and lose memories. Eidetic Memory The Truth about photographic memory: What do you think?

Aim: Students will be able to understand how we make and lose memories. Forgetting

Anterograde Amnesia v. Retrograde Amnesia Aim: Students will be able to understand how we make and lose memories. Anterograde Amnesia v. Retrograde Amnesia https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=ehtk3NfnX4A 50 first dates clip https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=g5JduyjPt3Q The Vow Clip

Eyewitness test https://public.psych.iastate.edu/glwells/theeyewitn esstest.html

Special Topics in Memory Aim: Students will be able to understand how we make and lose memories. Special Topics in Memory Eyewitness testimony Shown to be unreliable People’s recall for events may be influenced by what they heard or constructed after the incident Memory is reconstructed Memories are not stored like snapshots, but are instead like sketches that are altered and added to every time they are called up

Special Topics in Memory Aim: Students will be able to understand how we make and lose memories. Special Topics in Memory Elizabeth Loftus has shown subjects who are given false information about an event or scene tend to incorporate it into their memories, and "recall" the false information as a part of their original memory even two weeks later.Loftus gives the example of the sniper attacks in the fall of 2002. "Everybody was looking for a white van even though the bad guys ended up having a dark Chevy Caprice." That's because some people reported seeing a white van at the scene of the crime. "Witnesses overhear each other," says Loftus, and police may also unintentionally influence people's memories when they talk about a crime. 1956 Air Show Disaster in England 1-10 Fighter Jet Broke apart in Mid-Air killing 12. Witnessed by 100,000 avid fans watching the event. They had the wreckage and photos and asked the people to write in. Got a few 1000 people to respond. Fewer than 6 gave info that was consistent with the evidence they had We can plant false memories (Elizabeth Loftus) Did an experiment with on of her graduate student’s 14 yr old younger brother. Said here are four stories from your past (only three actually happened – one of them, being lost in the mall – was planted) Over the next two weeks whenever you remember something about one of these, write it down. Chris rate each of the 4 for clarity, he gave the false on 8 of 11. He picked a real memory as being fake.