Hi. A small number of my students complain, usually just before exam time, that there's an overwhelming amount of stuff to remember (names, particularly). Others seem to remember lots of unrelated bits of pieces from very different parts of the course, or are able to remember facts with very little notion of why I bothered them with those particular facts. This term, I thought that I would try to promote their "source memory" by presenting occasional snippets from lectures and asking them to fit them into a Mandler-type hierarchical structure, that is, to identify their location in the syllabus. Actually, I wanted to make an on-line game of these exercises, but ran into programming problems -- most of those (cross my fingers) seem to be under control now, and there are links to the exercises (and to the original printable versions that I used) to be found at http://www.unb.ca/psychology/likely/temporary_links.htm (The snippets are specific to Hist of Psych, but the principle might apply to quite a number of courses.) I'd be interested in hearing from other TIPSters who have tried to address this "source memory" problem. (I wonder sometimes if it comes from studying for testbank MC exams, or, worse, from _just_ studying lists of MC questions.) Also, my ability to test the games is very limited -- a few times before, TIPS people have alerted me that some script or other fails to work in a particular configuration of computer and browser that I don't have available. I'm a bit nervous that this new code may do that too, so would be grateful for feedback. Long time no post, but still a TIPSfan, -David =========================================================== David G. Likely, Department of Psychology, University of New Brunswick Fredericton, N. B., E3B 5A3 Canada History of Psychology: http://www.unb.ca/psychology/likely/psyc4053.htm ===========================================================
