Lab Exercises with Quizzes
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This slide show demonstrates the partial report method developed by Sperling (1960) to examine the capacity of iconic memory.
This slide show demonstrates how many items STM holds, and how the capacity of STM can be extended.
NASA Human Factors provides examples of how cognitive processes work.
Follow-up exercise: The above mentioned experiment is trying to show how different types of information stick in your head. What methods did you use to remember the information? Was the method useful? Would you use another method now?
GoCognitive is a website with various demos exploring cognitive processes.
Follow-up exercise: Have students perform the n-back task. What does this task test? What do you have to do in order to perform well? Does attention play a role in successful performance?
GoCognitive is a website with various demos exploring cognitive processes.
Follow-up exercise: Have students try the working memory capacity exercise. How did they do? What is working memory useful for? What can working memory capacity predispose people to? Is it beneficial?
Try these memory puzzles to learn more about the subsytems of working memory.
An adaptation of Shepard and Metzler's classic study.
GoCognitive is a website with various demos exploring cognitive processes.
Follow-up exercise: Have students try the implicit memory task. How does this task reflect our memory? Is it an intentional or incidental form of memory?
