Memory & Cognition

Some powerful videos to get us started:

• Feats of Memory Anyone Can Do (Ted Talk – Joshua Foer)
  • Ancient & Proven Way to Improve Memory (“Memory Palace”)
• How Reliable is Your Memory (Ted Talk – Elizabeth Loftus)
  • The Memory War (Some LOFTUS Controversy)

And…. our typical fare:

• Discovering Psychology: Remembering & Forgetting (30 mins)
• Discovering Psychology: Cognitive Processes (30 mins)
• Discovering Psychology: Judgment & Decision-Making (30 mins)
• Crash Course #13: How We Make Memories (10 mins)
• Crash Course #14: Remembering & Forgetting (10 mins)
• Crash Course #15: Cognition: How Your Mind Can Amaze & Betray You (10 mins)

Some Memory Exercises to Entertain Us….

• Earliest memory exercise
• Organization of memory experiment
• short-long term memory
• Memory Exercises – misc
• memory list team 1
• memory list team 2
• A Short Puzzle to Test Your Memory
• A Simple Way to Better Remember – Draw a Picture

And Some Additional Resources:

• Which is Better: Notetaking by Hand or Typing on Laptop?
• This is Why We Can’t Remember Our Early Childhood Memories (CNN)
• Searching for Mr. X, a Man Without a Memory (Atavist)