Debate 1: Does divorce place children at risk

1

• Debate 1 Does divorce place children at risk?
• Christy Abdypoor Brand
• Debate 2 Can sex be an addiction?
• Christy Brazil Evers
• Debate 3 Is our sexual behavior based on
  genetics?
• Christy Fabry Isaac
• Debate 4 Do religiously committed people have
  greater mental health?
• Chris Ivie Manawatao
• Debate 5 Does maximizing prison time reduce
  crime?
• Chris Markgraf Patterson, Brett
• Debate 6 Do physically punished children become
  violent adults?
• Julie Patterson, Lakeshia Rodriguez
• Debate 7 Are we relying on too much Prozac?

2
Study Sessions!

• T.A. DAY TIME
• Christy Thursday 1200 100
• Chris Tuesday 100 200
• Julie Thursday 100 200

3
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde
Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the
ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng
is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit
pclae. The rset can be a total mses and you can
stll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae
the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by
istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
4
Memory Questions

• What is your earliest memory?
• How old were you then?
• Do you actually recall it or have you been told
  about it?

5
Questions continued

• Is the memory positive, negative or neutral?
• What is the name of your first grade teacher?
• What was one gift you received for your last
  birthday?
• Are the majority of your memories positive or
  negative?

6

• What differences can you recall after viewing
  these twins for one minute?

7
(No Transcript)
8
Storage - Short-Term Memory

• Short-Term Memory
• limited in duration and capacity
• magical number 7/-2

9
A Simplified Memory Model
10
Encoding - Getting Information In
11
Encoding - Serial Position Effect
Serial Position Effect-tendency to recall best
the last items in a list
12
Encoding

• Images, sounds, touch, movement
• Maximize the sensory modalities you use to retain
  information, combine with meaning
• Mnemonics
• memory aids
• especially those techniques that use vivid
  imagery and organizational devices

13
Mnemonic Devices

• Major constituents of protoplasm S. P. Cohn
• King Phillip came over for Genes special variety
• Newton-gravitation, figs falling from trees
• Hooke-cells, sickle cells are hook shaped
• Ray-plants, plants need sun rays

14
Storage - Long-Term Memory

• Amnesia--the loss of memory
• Explicit Memory
• memory of facts and experiences that one can
  consciously know and declare
• also called declarative memory
• hippocampus--neural center in limbic system that
  helps process explicit memories for storage
• Implicit Memory
• retention independent of conscious recollection
• also called procedural memory

15
Storage - Long-Term Memory

• MRI scan of hippocampus (in red)

16
Retrieval - Getting Information Out

• Recall
• measure of memory in which the person must
  retrieve information learned earlier
• as on a fill-in-the blank test
• Recognition
• Measure of memory in which the person has only to
  identify items previously learned
• as on a multiple-choice test

17
Retrieval Cues

• Mood-congruent Memory
• tendency to recall experiences that are
  consistent with ones current mood
• memory, emotions, or moods serve as retrieval
  cues
• State-dependent Memory
• what is learned in one state (while one is high,
  drunk, or depressed) can more easily be
  remembered when in same state

18
Clive Wearing

• http//youtube.com/watch?vxCyvzI2aVUofeaturerel
  ated
• Anterograde amnesia
• http//youtube.com/watch?v9BrCBq2FY_Ufeaturerel
  ated
• Brain dysfunction

19
Forgetting

• The forgetting curve for Spanish learned in school

20
Forgetting as Interference

• Learning some items may disrupt retrieval of
  other information
• Proactive (forward acting) Interference
• disruptive effect of prior learning on recall of
  new information
• Retroactive (backwards acting) Interference
• disruptive effect of new learning on recall of
  old information

21
Forgetting as Interference
22
Improve Your Memory

• Study repeatedly to boost 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 story
• chunk--acronyms

23
Improve Your Memory

• Activate retrieval cues--mentally recreate
  situation and mood
• Recall events while they are fresh-- before you
  encounter misinformation
• Minimize interference
• Test your own knowledge
• rehearse
• determine what you do not yet know

24
Use the SQ3RPlus method of reading for retention

• S survey
• Q question
• R read
• R recite
• R review
• Plus
• Write
• Reflect

25
Watch Where Theres a Will, Theres An A
in FH 122 for more tips.
26
Clive Wearing

• http//youtube.com/watch?vxCyvzI2aVUofeaturerel
  ated
• Anterograde amnesia
• http//youtube.com/watch?v9BrCBq2FY_Ufeaturerel
  ated
• Brain dysfunction

27
Forgetting

• Forgetting can occur at any memory stage
• As we process information, we filter, alter, or
  lose much of it

28
Theories of forgetting Forgetting can
occur at three points along the pathway from
stimulus to memory 1)    faulty
acquisition2)    failure to encode 3)   
retrieval failure
29
Forgetting

• Forgetting as encoding failure
• Information never enters long-term memory

30
Retrieval

• Forgetting can result from failure to retrieve
  information from long-term memory

31
Explanations for this include1.
Decay2. Two Types of Interference 1. Proactive
interference Study biology? study Spanish ?
test in Spanish 2. Retroactive
interference Study biology ? study Spanish ?
test in biology 3. Changes in retrieval cues4.
Motivated forgetting Word of the day
confabulation!
32
2. The unconscious repetition of information for
retention is___ and research shows ___
repetitions are necessary for long term memory.

• 1. automatic processing, 8
• 2. rehearsal, 7
• 3. priming, 7
• 4. chunking, 8

33

• USA Memory Championships
• Blackjack memory trick
• Dave Farrow, Guiness Record Holder in Memory, 59
  decks of cards, thats 3058 cards!