MODULE 5: Lesson 1
July 17
TODAY'S MESSAGE
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TODAY'S ASSIGNMENTS:
1. Review Lesson 2 Notes on Retrieving Information.
2. Complete the Lesson 2 Practice Activity.
3. Complete the Lesson 2 Assignment, Promotional Sleep Flyer.
4. Review Lesson 3 Notes on Forgetting.
5. Complete Lesson 3 Practice Activity - H.M.
6. Complete the Lesson 3 Assignment, Eyewitness Testimony.
TEACHER TALK 1
You are going to come across two terms today that seem like they mean the same thing: recognition and recall. It can be difficult to identify the difference between them, but it helps me to remember it this way -- you recognize a person's face and recall a person's name. Recognition is usually triggered by something that is familiar. Something is familiar because we associate it with a previous experience. Recall is basically re-accessing previously encoded and stored memories. Since memories are not stored like books on a shelf in the library recalling memories or names can be a bit more challenging. Hopefully the graphic below will help you recall the difference between recognition and recall.
Short term is stored and retrieved sequentially. For example, if a group of participants are given a list of words to remember, and then asked to recall the fourth word on the list, participants go through the list in the order they heard it in order to retrieve the information.
Long term is stored and retrieved by association. This is why you can remember what you went upstairs for if you go back to the room where you first thought about it.
The video and interactive site below will explain how the brain retrieves memories and helps us out with that time we have "something on the tip of our tongue." Notice the use of the hippocampus in this process.
TEACHER TALK 2
We have talked a lot about memories and making them. What about the other side of the coin -- Why do we forget things? Do they really go away? There are two main reasons for which psychologists think we "forget" information:
- You store information in your memory but are unable to remember it when you need to, but perhaps can at a later date. In this case, information is inaccessible
- The human memory simply forgets information, permanently, and the physical traces of the memory disappear. In which case, information is unavailable
How we forget differs depending on whether a memory is stored in our long term or short term memory.
In Short-Term Memory
There are three ways in which you can forget information in the STM:
Decay
This occurs when you do not 'rehearse' information, ie you don't contemplate it. The physical trace of such memory is thought to fade over time.
Displacement is quite literally a form of forgetting when new memories replace old ones. Interference
It's sometimes difficult to remember information if you've been trying to memorize stuff that's similar, eg words which sound similar. Interference can either be proactive (this is when old memories interfere with new ones) or retroactive, when new information distorts old memories.
In Long-Term Memory
Long term is supposed to be limitless in its capacity and length in terms of time. Still though, we can forget information through decay (as in short-term forgetting) and interference from other memories.
Although we evidently can "forget" information, it's unknown whether information does actually disappear from memory. In hypnosis, memories which we never knew still existed can be recalled from early childhood using regression, calling into question - can we really forget?
IMPORTANT DATES THIS WEEK
7/19: Module 7 Grace Period begins; Module 8 begins.
7/21: Module 7 Grace Period ends; Module 8 ends; Take Module 8 Test and Honors Summative
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