experimento de memoria

These experiments were cool. I thoroughly enjoyed them.The first one I chose was the facial recognition. My first thought was, "this creeps me out". I'm not a big fan of America's Most Wanted and stuff like that. Not my thing. But anyhow, what I tried to do was apply what we'd learned in class. I attempted to make visual connections to objects or faces I already know. For example, one of the men looked like a chipmunk. So as soon as his face appeared in slide show of photos, I immediately recognized him as chipmunk guy. Another guy I thought looked like that guy from the Soprano's who did the dirty in his car with another large, Italian mobster. Again, instant recognition. I found that by making connections, my mind was able to retain more information, and to focus on the tougher faces after I had locked down the distinguished gentlemen. I'm not sure what a good score is really? I got 10 right, and one false alarm, whatever that means. At least I enjoyed this experiment, unlike the next. The word recognition made me bonkers. Like the numbers, I presume this was testing the affect of spacing between viewing a list of letters and having to recall them. I hated it. First of all, the letters were vertical, so I had a harder time reading them, something obviously intentional. Secondly, I wish they had used more kindergarten style words. I realize ether isn't immensely difficult, but it's a heck of a lot easier to assume it was either. Also, bugle. I must have entered bulge at least 3 times, convinced the computer had made an error. The biggest problem I had was not knowing when it would end. I'm the type of person who likes to have a time frame, or at least some time of realm of reference. My average time to recall was 0.1, ranging from 0.09 to 0.15, but mostly falling at 0.1. Is that good? No idea. Overall, this is my favorite part of the class. Actually applying psychology is so fun to me. I am officially a nerd.