1. MEMORY

2. JOURNAL ENTRY
What is your very 1st memory? Explain in as much detail as possible.
How old were you?

3. THINK BACK…
What was common about everyone’s very first memory
Why?

4. WHAT MEMORY IS! RECONSTRUCTIVE SOURCE AMNESIA
MEMORY IS A ________________________ PROCESS.
Complex information is altered to help us make sense of the material
Can cause errors!
______________________: the inability to distinguish what you originally experienced from what you heard or were told about an event later
SOURCE AMNESIA

5. SOURCE AMNESIA EXAMPLE) Mr. Keiper’s Surfing Adventure
Spring Break 2005 – San Diego, California
Several roommates
and I went on a surfing trip

6. THIS IS HOW I REMEMBER IT

7. AND…

8. THIS IS HOW IT REALLY HAPPENED

9. AND, LATER THAT NIGHT AFTER HOURS OF PRACTICE…

10. Forget Forget Long Term Memory Pay Sensory Stimulus Attention!
Retrieval
Sensory
Register
Pay
Attention!
Stimulus
Rehearsal
Short
Term
Memory
Forget
Repetition
Forget

11. SHORT-TERM MEMORY CAPACITY
A. As much info. as can be repeated/rehearsed in about 2 seconds.
B. 7 +/- 2 items
Think about combinations
that are 5-9 items long
BUT WAIT!...

12. Short-Term Memory (Working Memory)
Chunking
______________: grouping of info. into meaningful units for easier handling by the STM
Memorize these letters in the next 10 seconds
xfbicbsmtvcianbcx
x fbi cbs mtv cia nbc x

13. Elaborative Rehearsal
Long-Term Memory
► Part of memory that is basically permanent and corresponds to everything we “know”
► Info transferred from STM LTM by:
Elaborative Rehearsal