Access Bad Weather Update – Thursday

I think the weather caught us by surprise today. 

 (OOPS! Picture fail!)

The forecast was for the rest of the country to be snowed under while our little corner  of the world was to be clear, sunny and a little bit cold.  No such luck, we had a bit of snow as well.  Enough to keep many of my students away today.  So here is an update on what we covered.

Access classes continued with memory.  We watched this video, which introduces some of the forgetting issues we are studying.  Then, we discussed some of the points on the mindmap about forgetting.  (Link to website - paper copies available when you're next in class)

The points we concentrated on today were system failure (displacement, interference and trace decay.  I call them system failure because they can be related to breakdown or leakage from the multistore system), retrieval failure, biological explanations of forgetting and an introduction to psychoanalysis and motivated forgetting.   You should really read Focus pages 22-33.

Here are some more  notes on  forgetting.  References to Gross are from an earlier edition, but you should be able to find it in the latest edition. Notes 1 – system failure.  Notes 2 – amnesia.

Finally, if you're still having trouble producing a bar chart for asssignment 4, here's a walkthrough (kind of!)