On Tue, 22 Feb 2011 11:58:43 -0800, Patricia Santoro wrote: >Hello All, > >A friend of mine has a job interview next week at a large University where a >teaching demo to a class of 300 is required. If you have any suggestion on how >to engage a large class who do not know you, and will not see you again, >please >share, and I will pass them on. Most of my ideas take time to work through >with >a class, and would be hard to accomplish in just one meeting.
A number of years ago the memory researcher Daniel Schacter was making an invited address at, I think, an Eastern Psychological Association meeting and he started off by using a version of what is now known as the Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM) procedure. That is, Schacter read a list of words and then asked the audience (a large room that was packed with people) to raise their hand to indicate whether a word that he would now say was part of the earlier list. Of course, when he said the non-presented target word over a half of the audience raise their hands, thus providing an immediate and clear example of how false memories can be produced. One can then take this into a traditional memory research areas such the fragility of memory, the unreliability of eyewitness testimony, etc., or in the direction of recovered memories and the problem of how to deal with a person's memory for an event that has no external evidence for (e.g., child sacrifice at satanic ceremonies). For a more clinically oriented presentation, one can focus on how one feels about the memory regardless of whether it is true or not, how not to have it influence one's current thinking and behavior through reframing the memory and developing skills in dealing witht he memory, etc. There is a brief entry on the DRM procedure on Wikipedia which does provide a couple of the relevant references; see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deese%E2%80%93Roediger%E2%80%93McDermott_paradigm I can't vouch whether this will work or not but the original article by Roediger & McDermott (1995) might be accessible here: http://step.psy.cmu.edu/articles/Roediger95.htm A later paper by Stadler, Roediger & McDermott (1999) provides norms for lists and target words (published in Memory & Cognition) and which might be accessible at this link: http://step.psy.cmu.edu/articles/Roediger95.htm -Mike Palij New York University [email protected] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=8925 or send a blank email to leave-8925-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
