Guidelines for Whittlesea and Williams (2000): I expect you to read the article and be prepared to discuss it actively in class. Those of you who are taking History and Systems are familiar with the process so I'll expect you to serve as good role models for this. I'd like everybody to participate, as it will count toward your participation grade (this counts for 8% of your final grade I believe). Whittlesea's article is pretty interesting and quite readable I think, although it's a challenging piece of research. Be familiar with the concept of memory attributions. When do they happen? When don't they happen? Are they automatic or conscious? How were feeling of familiarities explained by earlier researchers? => fluency of processing. What is it? How is the discrepancy-attibution hypothesis different from the processing-fluency hypothesis? What are the consequences of perceiving coherence, incoherence, and discrepancy? What does it tell us about the way memory works? What kind of tasks did Whittlesea use to test his hypothesis? Are they appropriate/ecologically valid? What other phenomena can his theory be applied to? Can you find examples in your daily life? I won't have a precise plan in mind when we discuss this article. We'll discuss whatever related issues ya'll bring up so come with an outline of what you understood about the article, and with questions about what you didn't understand. I know the discussion is at 8am and it's a terrible time, both for you and me, so let's all be prepared for it so it doesn't become a bad experience we'll all have to dread in the future. Let me know if you have questions about anything before Thursday. |