Unit 7a- Memory
Practice Exams:
http://appsychology.com/HowPass/MC%20quizes/Memory/memory.htm
Worthy Explorations:
TED Talks/ Elizabeth Loftus http://www.ted.com/talks/elizabeth_loftus_the_fiction_of_memory
TED Talks/ Working Memory https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWKvpFZJwcE
http://www.usamemorychampionship.com/
Radio Lab: How memories are made and forgotten
Good overview of basic memory concepts.
Some fun memory games you can do online
Seeing Bugs Bunny @ Disneyland http://youtu.be/eZlPzSeUDDw
Flashbulb memories http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evj6q0eCdd8&feature=related
HBO special on Alzheimer’s http://www.hbo.com/alzheimers/
Woman who seems to remembers everything http://youtube.com/watch?v=aAbQvmf0YOQ
Picking Cotton & the amazing story of eye-witness testimony (and memory), 60 Minutes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkBiaI9PSQU
1) Alzheimer's Disease
"Genes to Cognition--The Dana Review"
A whole site dedicated to human memory... very helpful. It has this very complete concept map.
Articles
HM case http://www.slate.com/id/2206101/
Case of Psychogenic fugue http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16829260/
New York Times Obituary of H.M. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/05/us/05hm.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all
National Geographic article on mapping 3-D memories http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2007/11/memory/brain-interactive
The New Yorker article by Oliver Sacks about Clive Wearing. http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/09/24/070924fa_fact_sacks.
New York Times article about priming
Psyblog: Constructed memories http://www.spring.org.uk/2008/10/false-memories-can-influence-behaviour.php
Gary Wells Website on Eyewitness Memory http://www.psychology.iastate.edu/~glwells/
Funniest Police Composites as an example of poor eyewitness testimony
Only a Memory by the Smithereens