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

Explore the phenomenon of memory construction and false memories through a list of words and current research by Dan Schacter. Understand how memory works and how the brain can create false memories.

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

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

  2. QUILT

  3. DARK

  4. SILENCE

  5. FATIGUE

  6. CLOCK

  7. SNORING

  8. NIGHT

  9. TOSS

  10. TIRED

  11. NIGHT

  12. ARTICHOKE

  13. TURN

  14. NIGHT

  15. REST

  16. DREAM

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

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

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

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

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

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

  23. 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!

  24. QUILT DARK SILENCE FATIGUE CLOCK SNORING NIGHT TOSS TIRED NIGHT ARTICHOKE TURN NIGHT REST DREAM

  25. Creating False MemoriesCurrent 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?

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