Thursday, September 24, 2015

Unit 7A Study Guide

UNIT 7A POWERPOINT SLIDES FROM CLASS:
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B4xdTlrmZTl3WUlKNjFSVmRYd3c/edit?usp=sharing

YOUR UNIT 7A TEST IS TOMORROW, FRIDAY, 9/25

Online quizzes for practice: worthpublishers.com/myersap1e

VIDEOS

Crash Course (two ten-min videos)
1. How we make memories  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSycdIx-C48
2. Remembering and forgetting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVWbrNls-Kw

TED TALKS: 
Elizabeth Loftus on eyewitness memory  http://www.ted.com/talks/elizabeth_loftus_the_fiction_of_memory?language=en
Peter Doolittle on working memory
http://www.ted.com/talks/peter_doolittle_how_your_working_memory_makes_sense_of_the_world?language=en

Animation: What happens when hippocampus is removed https://www.pinterest.com/pin/119908408804060604/

Clive Wearing Videos http://www.learner.org/resources/series150.html#

What is Alzheimer's disease? (3 minutes) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Wv9jrk-gXc&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Experiencing Alzheimer's (8 minutes)  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL_Gq7Shc-Y&feature=youtube_gdata_player


AUDIO 

Patient HM's story on NPR http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7584970

Earworms
In class, we mentioned earworms- those annoying songs that get stuck in your head as a result of automatic encoding. Some of our earworms were:
- free credit report .com
- get connected, for free, at education connection!
- the Spongebob theme song

Take a listen to the interview with a psychologist who collects and studies earworms:
http://www.npr.org/2012/03/12/148460545/why-that-song-gets-stuck-in-your-head
Or check out this article:

Then post your most bothersome earworms in the comments below!

1 comment:

  1. Barbie girl; arg, now I got it in my mind. Mrs. Herrera, extra credits for posting :3.

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