assignment2
Taliste cheese
4/3/2014
Psyc 2301
Assignment 2
My first victim was my mother I explained to her what memory aid was and how you conducted the class experiment on the students in class. My mother is just like me so she was not very thrilled about the fact that she had to remember information in such short notice. I explained to her that she was not being judged. I started the memory test in a very calm setting which was in my mother's room where she was comfortable. I explained to my mother that I was going to give her a deck of cards. In random format she would need to pick out seven cards. Once she selected the seven cards she had one minute to view the cards in the order that they were selected, and then regurgitate them back to me. Reminder my mother is 52 years old and coincidentally she did very well. Now that I know my mother has very good short-term memory. we have to work on long-term memory, because I always have to remind her of things. I only conducted one memory tests with my mother because she was getting kind of aggravated, and for some odd reason she thought I was making her do my homework. My results with my mother was kind of babbling, because usually my mother act like she cannot hear anything you say. The results were actually the other way around proving that my mother was not telling the truth. Conducting this test on my mother has giving me something to hold over her head in proving that she has selective memory.
My second victim was my cousin. I conducted the memory test by sitting down in our apartment, and playing a simple game of cards. My cousin is a big-time over achiever so anything that I say she cannot do is considered a competition. I basically tricked her into believing that I was competing against her to remember the different signs on our cards in order. After conducting the experiment with the cards in order I switch them up and had her to try, and remember them randomly. The random selection of cards was pretty
4/3/2014
Psyc 2301
Assignment 2
My first victim was my mother I explained to her what memory aid was and how you conducted the class experiment on the students in class. My mother is just like me so she was not very thrilled about the fact that she had to remember information in such short notice. I explained to her that she was not being judged. I started the memory test in a very calm setting which was in my mother's room where she was comfortable. I explained to my mother that I was going to give her a deck of cards. In random format she would need to pick out seven cards. Once she selected the seven cards she had one minute to view the cards in the order that they were selected, and then regurgitate them back to me. Reminder my mother is 52 years old and coincidentally she did very well. Now that I know my mother has very good short-term memory. we have to work on long-term memory, because I always have to remind her of things. I only conducted one memory tests with my mother because she was getting kind of aggravated, and for some odd reason she thought I was making her do my homework. My results with my mother was kind of babbling, because usually my mother act like she cannot hear anything you say. The results were actually the other way around proving that my mother was not telling the truth. Conducting this test on my mother has giving me something to hold over her head in proving that she has selective memory.
My second victim was my cousin. I conducted the memory test by sitting down in our apartment, and playing a simple game of cards. My cousin is a big-time over achiever so anything that I say she cannot do is considered a competition. I basically tricked her into believing that I was competing against her to remember the different signs on our cards in order. After conducting the experiment with the cards in order I switch them up and had her to try, and remember them randomly. The random selection of cards was pretty