1. Ex: Locker Combinations, Old phone numbers
Example: Knowing the Super bowl champs this year, but forgetting who won last year

2. Retroactive Interference
Sleep prevents retroactive interference. Therefore, it
leads to better recall.

3. The Stroop Effect
Proactive… Or
Retroactive…

4. Forgetting
Mnemonic Device:
P O R N
Proactive Interference: old information blocks out new information.
Retroactive Interference: new information blocks out old information.
Calling your new girlfriend by old girlfriend’s name.
Getting a new bus number and forgetting old bus number.

5. Motivated Forgetting
Motivated Forgetting: People unknowingly revise their memories.
Repression: Defense mechanism that banishes anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories from consciousness.
There is more and more research that shows that repression rarely if ever occurs.

6. Have any of you ever gone to Disney Land/World?

7. Memory Construction Errors
By: Ms. Kong

8. How fast were the cars going when they smashed or hit each other?
Shows how eyewitnesses similarly reconstruct their memories when later questioned.
How fast were the cars going when they smashed or hit each other?

9. Memory Construction
A week later they were asked: Was there any broken glass? Group B (smashed into) reported more broken glass than Group A (hit).

10. Source Amnesia
Déja Vu
“I've experienced this before.” Cues from the current situation may unconsciously trigger retrieval of an earlier similar experience.

11. Discerning true and false memories
Brain Games Clip

12. Children’s Eyewitness Recall
Children are even more susceptible to the misinformation effect than adults.
They truly believe their stories even after they are told they are false memories.
Professional psychologist trained in interviewing children could not even tell if the children were talking about a real memory or a false one.

13. Abuse and Repressed or Constructed Memories
Memories recovered under hypnosis or under the influence of drugs are especially unreliable.
Memories of things happening before age 3 are unreliable. (Infantile Amnesia)
Traumatic events are usually not repressed they are very vivid, persistent, haunting memories.

14. Improving your memory Study repeatedly to boost long-term recall.
Spend more time rehearsing or actively thinking about the material.
Make material personally meaningful.
Use mnemonic devices:
associate with peg words — something already stored
make up a story
chunk — acronyms

15. Improving your memory
Activate retrieval cues — mentally recreate the situation and mood.
Recall events while they are fresh — before you encounter misinformation.
Minimize interference:
Test your own knowledge.
Rehearse and then determine what you do not yet know.

16. How reliable is eye witness testimony?
When there is 2 minutes of class left, I need someone to remind me of the assignment I have to give you guys!

17. Brain Games Memory