Remembering and Forgetting Extra Credit:
Go to the following website:
Discovering Psychology - http://www.learner.org/resources/series138.html
Watch Episode 9:
Remembering and Forgetting, and answer the following questions. Be sure to use complete sentences.
1. What are five factors that can influence or affect
memory? (1 point)
2. What is the purpose of short-term memory?
What are its limitations and how can we get around these limitations? (1 point)
3. What is a peg word mnemonic? Why can it be so
useful in aiding memory? (2 points)
4. What are schemas and how are they related to
memory? (1 point)
5. What are the three engrams of memory mentioned in
the video? (1 point)
6. What role did classical conditioning play in the
experiments on memory and Alzheimer’s? (3 points)
In addition, answer the following multiple-choice questions
based on video content:
- Why
did Hermann Ebbinghaus use nonsense syllables in his research?
- He
was following a long-standing tradition
- He
wanted to use something that had fewer than seven items
- He
felt relatively meaningless stimuli would give a pure measure of learning
- He
though such syllables would be very difficult to learn
- According
to Freud, what do we tend to do with memories that the ego finds
unacceptable
- We
discard them entirely
- We
think of them repeatedly during the day
- We
put them in associative networks
- We
repress them
- In an
experiment, participants spend a few minutes in an office and then were
asked to remember what they had seen. They remembered some objects that
were not present because these objects
- fit
into their schema of an office
- can
easily be mistaken for other objects
- were
things that they themselves owned
- had
strong emotional overtones
- Franco
Magnani’s paintings of an Italian town show the dual processes of remarkable
accuracy and significant distortions. According to Professor Zimbardo,
these distortions are caused by
- artistic
intentions
- selective
forgetting
- Magnani’s
need to repress some material
- Magnani’s
boyhood perspective
- What
causes the memory loss seen in Alzheimer’s patients?
- Anxiety
leads to functional amnesia
- Chemical
poisoning temporarily disrupts memory circuits
- Brain
tissues dies away
- Repression
causes forgetting
- Which
mnemonic technique encourages learners to associate list items with
familiar places?
- Link
method
- Peg-word
system
- Method
of loci
- Verbal
conversation