Project 2

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Serial Position Effects & False Memory

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By Rachel Berg

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Let's Begin With A Memory Activity

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Try to remember as many of the following items

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Elephant

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Cat

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Dog

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Zebra

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Lizard

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Lion

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Giraffe

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Which Words Are You Most Likely to Remember?

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do you remember hearing the word elephant?

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What about giraffe?

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Serial Position Effect: tendency to remember the first and last items in a list better than those in the middle. The serial position effect is a form of cognitive bias, and it includes both the primacy effect and the recency effect.

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Primacy              Recency

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An individual's tendency to better remember the first piece of information

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An individual's tendency to remember the last  piece of information

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              Do you remember seeing a monkey?.

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False Memories:

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False memory refers to cases in which people remember events differently from the way they happened or, in the most dramatic case, remember events that never happened at all.

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thank you!  contact info: rabe1542@colorado.edu

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Episode 1

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