Teaching About Memory With Movies
Core Concepts to Cover:
- 3-Stage memory model: Sensory memory, short-term memory, and long-term memory
- Encoding, storage, and retrieval of memories
- How forgetting happens
- Traumatic brain injuries and other brain decays
- Eyewitness testimony and memory distortions
- Methods for improving memory
Core Vocabulary to Cover:
priming
chunking
encoding
maintenance rehearsal
episodic memory
declarative memory
procedural memory
retrieval
recall
recognition
mnemonic
serial position effect
massed practice
distributed practice
semantic memory
sensory memory
anterorgrade amnesia
retrograde amnesia
sleeper effect
Alzheimer’s
Teaching Cognition With Movies
Core Concepts to Cover:
- Overview of the thinking process and concept formation
- Overview of problem solving algorithms and heuristics
- Nature of intelligence and how to validly measure it
- Elements of creativity and how to validly measure it
Core Vocabulary to Cover:
convergent thinking
divergent thinking
mental set
mental images
intelligence quotient
crystallized intelligence
fluid intelligence
bell curve
standard score
percentile rank
concept
functional fixedness
heuristic
algorithm
Teaching Language Acquisition With Movies
Core Concepts to Cover:
- Structure of human language
- Stages of human language development: Receptive and Expressive
- Second language learning
- Overview of language comprehension
- Overview of language production
- Noam Chomsky’s contribution to language research
- Evaluating animal language studies
Core Vocabulary to Cover:
morpheme
phoneme
syntax
grammar
semantics
over extension
over generalization
linguistics
Movies That Teach About Language Acquisition
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Last modified on September 7, 2023