Memory Area 3 Understanding Storage
Area III: Understanding Storage
A. To learn the material, do the following:
1. Read the chapter and chapter outline.
2. Use the following links to explore memory storage further:
Alzheimer’s Disease Links to an external site.
This site, created by the National Institute on Aging and the National Institutes of health, offers information and figures showing how Alzheimer's disease affects the brain.
Information Process Theory of Learning Links to an external site.
This site contains a very informational outline overview of the Information Process Theory of Learning.
http://health.howstuffworks.com/human-memory.htm Links to an external site.
Short video clips concerning memory and the brain.
B. Activities
1. Sensory Memory. Play two lines of a song. Ask the students if they have heard the song. Next ask them to write down the lyrics of the song they just heard. Some may get some of the words but not all of them, even though they told you they did hear it. Next, run a PowerPoint slide show—rather quickly—with 10 slides, each with a different number on it. Have the students write down the numbers they remember seeing. They will probably remember some of the numbers but not all of them. Break the students into groups and have them compare their answers. Then go over the correct answers as a class and discuss how information in sensory memory, both echoic and iconic, lasts for only a few seconds.
Source: Laura King, Exploring Psychology (2010): Mc-Graw Hill
Modality: Face to Face or hybrid
Goal 1. Knowledge Base of Psychology: Demonstrate familiarity with the major concepts, theoretical perspectives, empirical findings, and historical trends in psychology.
Goal 6. Personal Development: Develop insight into one’s own and others’ behavior and mental processes and apply effective strategies for self-management and self-improvement.
2. Short Term Memory Storage: Use the following numbers to establish students' short term memory capacity for individual numbers. Read each list of numbers, about 1 number per second. When you finish each row, say GO and have students write down as many numbers as they can remember IN ORDER. Most students can get up to 6 or 7. After that, few students can remember that many numbers in order.
memory activity on numbers and storage capacity
Modality: Face to Face or hybrid
Goal 1. Knowledge Base of Psychology: Demonstrate familiarity with the major concepts, theoretical perspectives, empirical findings, and historical trends in psychology.
Goal 4. Application of Psychology: Understand and apply psychological principles to personal, community,[social], and organizational issues.
C. Assessments
1. Quiz/Examination (using Myers’ test bank or other questions): Make sure to ask content, methodology, critical thinking, application, values, and personal application questions.
This activity meets the following goal:
Goal 1. Knowledge Base of Psychology: Demonstrate familiarity with the major concepts, theoretical perspectives, empirical findings, and historical trends in psychology.
Goal 2. Research Methods in Psychology: Understand and apply basic research methods in psychology.
Goal 3. Critical Thinking Skills in Psychology: Respect and use critical and creative thinking, skeptical inquiry, and, when possible, the scientific approach to solve problems related to behavior and mental processes
Goal 4. Application of Psychology: Understand and apply psychological principles to personal, community,[social], and organizational issues.
Goal 5. Values in Psychology: Value empirical evidence, tolerate ambiguity, act ethically, and reflect other values that are the underpinnings of psychology as a science.
Goal 6. Personal Development: Develop insight into one’s own and others’ behavior and mental processes and apply effective strategies for self-management and self-improvement.
2. Written explanation of any of the above activities in essay format.
This activity meets the following goals:
Goal 1. Knowledge Base of Psychology: Demonstrate familiarity with the major concepts, theoretical perspectives, empirical findings, and historical trends in psychology.
Goal 4. Application of Psychology: Understand and apply psychological principles to personal, community,[social], and organizational issues.
Goal 6. Personal Development: Develop insight into one’s own and others’ behavior and mental processes and apply effective strategies for self-management and self-improvement.