1. Look and Listen to the following 15 words. See how many you can remember.

3. QUILT

4. DARK

5. SILENCE

6. FATIGUE

7. CLOCK

8. SNORING

9. NIGHT

10. TOSS

11. TIRED

12. NIGHT

13. ARTICHOKE

14. TURN

15. NIGHT

16. REST

17. DREAM

18. Write down as many words from the list as you can remember.

19. How many of you recalled the beginning of the list well? Primacy Effect

20. How many of you remembered the end of the list well? Recency Effect

21. How many remember the word artichoke? Semantic Distinctiveness – it has nothing to do with sleep.

22. How many of you remember the word night? Maintenance Rehearsal - repeated

23. How many of you remembered the words toss & turn? Chunking – you chunked these together to remember them.

24. How many of you remember the word sleep? It was NOT there! This is memory construction. Your brain “filled” in the gaps in your memory with a word it thought would most likely be there based on the other words. This is how we misremember – because memory is a reconstruction!

25. Creating False Memories Current Research Watch True or False? (9 min.) from Scientific American Frontiers Segment 17 to view Dan Schacter’s tests on false memories and the parts of the brain involved. What has researcher Dan Schacter discovered regarding the accuracy of LTM? How does the brain store a memory? How is it recalled? How does the brain differentiate between actual and false memories? How did Schacter discover this?