RE: Short Term Memory. I still use phone numbers and zip codes as
examples of how psychological principles are used in "real life" (emails
and passwords may work well now, since most require 8 characters or
less). Also, social security numbers are a good example of chunking.
Another great d
Michael Sylvester asks:
>my usual explanation of Short term memory is the standard:
>it is a limited capacity system and last for about 30 seconds.
>The example of the limited capacity given is that of the 7 digit
>telephone number.
>I am getting tired of citing the telephone number as an example
I do an exercise using the Seven Dwarfs (no pc police, please) suggested by
Miserandino that is a great introduction to the whole topic of memory. See
Teaching of Psychology 1991 I believe. I don't have exact reference.
Students really liked it.
Michael Quanty
Psychology Professor
CBMTS Project
When I teach the unit on memory in Intro Psych, I start out with a 10-item
quiz that has items illustrating short-term memory, long-term memory, and
various phenomena like encoding failure and so forth. The short-term memory
items are strings of digits - one string is meaningless, another is a str
Why don't you just do a quick demo. Put together a list of 10-15
words, show them to the students briefly, then ask them to write down
as many as possible. I've done this frequently and students typically
get about 7 words down. From here it is easy to put together a list of
10-15, equally
Nice joke!
Michael Sylvester asks a simple, noninflammatory question related to
standard research in psychology ... I'd almost forgotten it was April
Fool's Day!
--Robin
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Robin Pearce "Practice random a
