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Memory Mastery: Understanding and Enhancing Recall Abilities

Delve into the intricacies of memory, from retroactive interference to brain games that improve recall. Learn about mnemonic devices, source amnesia, and the reliability of eyewitness testimony.

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Memory Mastery: Understanding and Enhancing Recall Abilities

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  1. Ex: Locker Combinations, Old phone numbers Example: Knowing the Super bowl champs this year, but forgetting who won last year

  2. Retroactive Interference Sleep prevents retroactive interference. Therefore, it leads to better recall.

  3. The Stroop Effect Proactive… Or Retroactive…

  4. Forgetting Mnemonic Device: P O R N • Proactive Interference: old information blocks out new information. • Retroactive Interference: new information blocks out old information. Calling your new girlfriend by old girlfriend’s name. Getting a new bus number and forgetting old bus number.

  5. Motivated Forgetting • Motivated Forgetting: People unknowingly revise their memories. • Repression: Defense mechanism that banishes anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories from consciousness. • There is more and more research that shows that repression rarely if ever occurs.

  6. Have any of you ever gone to Disney Land/World? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RLvSGYxDIs

  7. Memory Construction Errors By: Ms. Kong

  8. Shows how eyewitnesses similarly reconstruct their memories when later questioned. How fast were the cars going when they smashed or hit each other?

  9. Memory Construction A week later they were asked: Was there any broken glass? Group B (smashed into) reported more broken glass than Group A (hit).

  10. Source Amnesia Déja Vu “I've experienced this before.” Cues from the current situation may unconsciously trigger retrieval of an earlier similar experience.

  11. Discerning true and false memories Brain Games Clip

  12. Children’s Eyewitness Recall • Children are even more susceptible to the misinformation effect than adults. • They truly believe their stories even after they are told they are false memories. • Professional psychologist trained in interviewing children could not even tell if the children were talking about a real memory or a false one.

  13. Abuse and Repressed or Constructed Memories • Memories recovered under hypnosis or under the influence of drugs are especially unreliable. • Memories of things happening before age 3 are unreliable. (Infantile Amnesia) • Traumatic events are usually not repressed they are very vivid, persistent, haunting memories.

  14. Improving your memory • Study repeatedly to boost long-term recall. • Spend more time rehearsing or actively thinking about the material. • Make material personally meaningful. • Use mnemonic devices: • associate with peg words — something already stored • make up a story • chunk — acronyms

  15. Improving your memory • Activate retrieval cues — mentally recreate the situation and mood. • Recall events while they are fresh — before you encounter misinformation. • Minimize interference: • Test your own knowledge. • Rehearse and then determine what you do not yet know.

  16. How reliable is eye witness testimony? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-SBTRLoPuo When there is 2 minutes of class left, I need someone to remind me of the assignment I have to give you guys!

  17. Brain Games Memory

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