1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. Mnemonics and Chunking
Aim: Students will be able to understand how we make and lose memories.
Mnemonics and Chunking
Chunking
Mnemonics

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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.

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

9. 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?

10. 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?

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

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

13. Eyewitness test
esstest.html

14. 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

15. 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 "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.