This assignment is related to the course material on Memory. You should review the textbook and lectures on this topic before beginning this assignment.
Your Picture:
• Find a picture that involves an experience that you remember relatively well, which means you can recall enough detail to tell someone a coherent story about the event. This event also must involve at least one other person with whom you have contact and can ask about his or her recollection of this memory.
Part 1: Your Memory:
• Write down your recollection of the memory connected to this picture in as much detail as possible. You will include this memory in your PA #1 submission.
• What type of memory is it? Note: Cite from the textbook section on Memory Storage.
• What influenced your recollection of this memory? Note: Cite from the textbook section on Memory Retrieval and/or Parts of Brain Involved in Memory.
Part 2: Someone else’s Memory:
• Without sharing your own memory, ask the other person involved in this experience about his or her recollection of the event. For example, (shows picture) “Hey, what do you remember about this?”
Part 3: Analyzing the Discrepancies:
• Describe the difference between your recollection and the other person’s recollection. What details differed?
• Why do you think you remembered the event differently? Note: Cite from the textbook section on Memory Retrieval and/or Memory Construction.
• Why do you think you forgot certain aspects? What impacted your memory? Note: Cite from the textbook section on Amnesia and Forgetting.