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PsychSim 5 Trusting Your Memory

This document summarizes an activity that tests a student's memory reliability. It discusses the three processes of memory - encoding, storage and retrieval. Recognition memory tasks provide answer options while recall tasks require generating answers without cues. The student scored higher on the recognition test than the recall test, showing a serial position effect. They falsely recalled the word "sleep", likely because related words were presented. Memory can be distorted by misattribution of information sources or suggestibility from outside sources, affecting eyewitness testimony.

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PsychSim 5 Trusting Your Memory

This document summarizes an activity that tests a student's memory reliability. It discusses the three processes of memory - encoding, storage and retrieval. Recognition memory tasks provide answer options while recall tasks require generating answers without cues. The student scored higher on the recognition test than the recall test, showing a serial position effect. They falsely recalled the word "sleep", likely because related words were presented. Memory can be distorted by misattribution of information sources or suggestibility from outside sources, affecting eyewitness testimony.

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PsychSim 5: TRUSTING YOUR MEMORY

Name: _MICHELLE RAWANA_________ Period: 2


Date: _____JANUARY 4TH
In this activity youll be able to test the reliability of your memory, and then learn what
researchers have discovered about the way that memories are stored and modified by new
information.
Measuring Memory
According to researchers, what are the three memory processes?
1. ENCODING
2. STORAGE
3. RETRIEVAL
How do recall tasks differ from recognition tasks?
- Recall Tasks are more essay , short answers that provide cues that specify the info you
must recall
- Recognition Tasks are multiple choice , matching and true or false that provide all
possible answers where you have to check three answers agaisnt your memory to
recongnize the right answer.
A Look at Your Performance
What was your score on the Recall Test? ______10 out of 15______
What was your score on the Recognition Test? ____15 out of 15____
Examining Your Performance: Serial Position Effect
What was your pattern of performance across the 15 words? Did your performance show a
serial position effect?
It was much higher than my initial test.
Examining Your Performance: False Memory
What is a false memory?
- Remembering something that didnt actually happen.
Did you show false recall or false recognition for sleep? If so, why do you think this
happened?
- Yes , because all the words that were shown had to do with sleeping so it seemed right
and appropiate to be used in the same list
If not, why do you think your performance was different from the Roediger & McDermott study?

Other Ways We Create False Memories


List and briefly explain the two sins of forgetting especially relevant to the topic of false
memories:
1. Misattribution distortions based on confusing the source of information
2. Suggestibility distortions introduced by misinformation from outside sources
Application: Eyewitness Testimony
How might memory distortions affect eyewitness testimony?
- They will more likely report things that werent actually there or happened , making it
more dramatic or less than the actual thing/event.

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