Memory Research Seminar, January 21st 2004

• Introductions
  -- speak about your own experiences with memory - its strengths & weaknesses
  How do you set about committing something to memory?
  What do you do that requires mnemonic expertise?
  Have you trained your memory in any domain?
  Have you noticed any changes in your memory over time?
  -- What background you are bringing to our investigations of memory?
• Syllabus & Assignments
• Conference Times -- WebBoard set-up & Contact Sheet, conference content schedule
• Serial Position Curve Experiment
  -- do expt. (with the instruction to remember as best you can with any strategy you choose)
  -- plot using Excel
  -- discussion of the strategies you used for remembering the list of words
• Method of Loci Variation on the Serial Position Curve Experiment
  -- instructions - use SLC images
  -- plot the results with method of loci
  -- discussion of the any differences found between the two conditions
• Penny Study
• Library Picture
• Formulation of Our Seminar Questions
  -- a brainstorming session to generate all of the questions we can raise about the psychology of memory
  -- re-organizing and prioritizing of the questions
  -- post the questions on WebBoard
• Plagarism expt. -- first part - generating names
• Hand-outs for next week - photocopies & Bartlett data collection assignment