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PsychSim 5: TRUSTING YOUR MEMORY Name: Veronica Andrade Period: 2 Date: January 3, 2012 In this activity you’ll be able to test the reliability of your memory, and then learn what researchers have discovered about the way that memories are stored and modified by new information. Measuring Memory A Look at Your Performance Examining Your Performance: Serial Position Effect Examining Your Performance: Recall Versus Recognition Examining Your Performance: False Memory Application: Eyewitness Testimony
 * According to researchers, what are the three memory processes?
 * __Encoding__
 * __Storage__
 * __Retrieval__
 * How do recall tasks differ from recognition tasks? __For recall you have to generate the answer, where as in recognition you just have to remember it when you see it.__
 * What was your score on the Recall Test? __60%__
 * What was your score on the Recognition Test? __80%__
 * What was your pattern of performance across the 15 words? Did your performance show a serial position effect? __Yes, I remembered more of the beginning and end than the middle.__
 * Did your performance show an advantage for recognition over recall? __Yes__
 * What is a “false memory?” __False memory is when you remember something that isn’t/wasn’t there or didn’t happen.__
 * Did you show false recall or false recognition for “sleep”? If so, why do you think this happened? __No__
 * If not, why do you think your performance was different from the Roediger & McDermott study? __I didn’t see the word sleep, so I didn’t remember it. Other Ways We Create False Memories__
 * List and briefly explain the two “sins of forgetting” especially relevant to the topic of false memories:
 * __Misattribution – distortions based on confusing the source of the information.__
 * __Suggestibility – distortions introduced by misinformation from outside sources.__
 * How might memory distortions affect eyewitness testimony? __If someone is unsure of something, but someone else strongly believes a fact, then the unsure person might believe the person who strongly believes the fact. So, by suggestibility, they remember a wrong fact and the testimony is affected__.

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 * PsychSim 5: ICONIC MEMORY **


 * Name: **__Veronica Andrade __ **Period:** __2__
 * Date: **__01-05-12 __

This activity simulates Sperling’s classic experiments on the duration of visual sensory memory.


 * Free Recall Test **

• What was your score on the free recall test? __52%__


 * Iconic Memory **

• What is Sperling’s theory of iconic memory? What is an “icon?” __His theory is that things don’t always make it to short term memory to be stored, the area before short term memory is iconic Memory. An icon is a picture or image.__

• What is Sperling’s partial report task? How does it test his theory of iconic memory? __His report task was what he used to prove iconic memory. His theory tests it by proving we can remember things shown briefly.__


 * Partial Report Test **

• What was your score on the partial report test? __59%__

• Are your results consistent or inconsistent with typical results? What do typical results suggest? __They were inconcistant, people usually score significantly higher on this. I scored only a bit higher.__


 * Delayed Partial Report Test **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">• What was your score on the delayed partial report test? _

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">• What does the typical drop in performance tells us about the duration of iconic memory?

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__//Opener//:__ What is the misinformation effect? The misinformation effect is remembering things with false information.


 * When are people susceptible to misinformation? Anybody.
 * What happens to the original memory? It becomes irretrievable, or it gets 'fuzzy'.
 * Do people genuinely believe the misinformation? Yes because they don't know their memory is under the effect, they just remember the misinformation.

__//Activity 1 -//__ The Eyewitness Test My guess: 2 or 5 or he's not there. The answer: He's not there.

__//Activity 2 - Read and mark up the following article://__

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I know you guys are all assured by his confidence, but I'm not. I'm taking psychology, and I just learned about misinformation. Misinformation, or false memories, is when someone remembers something that didn't happen. False memories are frequent in eyewitnesses because we're not always so confident in what we remember. Now I know you're going to tell me that he's confidant, so it must be true, but that's not so. Researchers have, in experiments, created false memories in people with ease, and the subjects believe the false memory with all the confidence of an actual memory. False memories happen in eyewitnesses where one says something like, for example, "I can't remember the color, but she had a jacket on." and then someone as confidant as our friend here says something like "It's a red one, I remember that." then most will believe it's actually a red jacket. I'm not saying he's wrong, I'm just saying be careful, because we could end up putting an innocent person in jail.