Memory is the mother of all wisdom – Aeschylus, 440BCE
* Personal – internal recollection of events of your life * Factual – meanings, facts, and ideas * Practical – skills, habits you have developed (think muscle memory)
* Describe ways in which they are inter-twined, and also how separate * How do you use your memory in three of your classes? Some more than others?
* Storehouse Model – we retrieve as needed * Reconstruction Model – we reconstruct the memories every time we access them * Example of a memory which has changed over time? How? Why?
* Encoding – selective attention… * Meeting someone and immediately forgetting their name (why?) * Attention…money- what is on it?
* Storage – we tend to chunk information, and remember it if we practice/use it * Game tterm_memory/index.html tterm_memory/index.html * What we do store is simplified, or stereotypical
* See gue/index.html gue/index.html * Context, cues, other reminders….examples?
* Forgetting – have you ever? * Mis-remembering – how is this different? * Testimony – when is either of these perjury?
* Hindsight bias – * Unconscious plagiarism – * Fabricated memories -
* how-google-affects-memory how-google-affects-memory * What do you remember best, in school? In life? * Is memory becoming an obsolete way of knowing?