Crash Course Psychology #14: Remembering and Forgetting by Teach Simple

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Memory and forgetting are explored through fifteen short-answer questions accompanying the Crash Course Psychology video, built around Bernice's eyewitness account of a theft to introduce implicit versus explicit memory, priming, and context- and state-dependent memory cues. Later questions connect the eyewitness story to everyday memory quirks, such as why the first items on a forgotten grocery list are often the ones we still recall (the primacy effect), and a closing prompt asks students to name as many memory-and-forgetting factors from the video as they can. A separate, fully worked teacher answer key gives a complete-sentence response for all 15 questions, including a note that responses to the open-ended final question will vary. Both documents are provided as editable Word files alongside matching PDFs.

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Crash Course Psychology: Remembering and Forgetting offers educators a complete lesson to teach students key concepts related to human memory. This informative resource guides learners to understand core ideas like how memories are stored and retrieved, memory cues, priming, context-dependent memory, and more. \n\nThe package includes a digital worksheet with 15 critical thinking questions about the Crash Course video on remembering and forgetting. Learners will gain insight into fascinating psychological concepts like serial position effects, interference theory, and issues with eyewitness testimony. An answer key is also provided for instructors. This versatile resource works well for whole-class instruction, small groups, homework, and more. It is formatted to integrate easily into Google Classroom and other digital platforms.

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Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

Distinguish implicit memory from explicit memory, with an example of each.
Explain how priming and context-/state-dependent cues can trigger memory retrieval.
Describe the primacy effect using the grocery-list example from the video.
Summarize how an eyewitness account can be shaped by memory processes such as encoding, storage, and retrieval.

Teaching tips

Play the linked Crash Course Psychology video and pause at each relevant point, since all 15 questions follow the eyewitness story and concepts in sequence.
Note before assigning question 15 that the answer key marks it as open-ended ("answers will vary"), so plan to accept multiple valid responses rather than one fixed answer.
Use the separate teacher answer key to confirm that student responses to the definition questions (6, 7, 9-11) capture the same core idea, since answers are short written responses rather than fill-in-the-blank recall.

Skills covered

Memory-concept vocabulary — students define implicit memory, explicit memory, priming, and context-/state-dependent memory (questions 6, 7, 9-11).
Applied case analysis — students trace how Bernice's eyewitness account was formed and later challenged, connecting a narrative to memory-process vocabulary (questions 1-5, 8).
Pattern explanation — question 14 asks students to explain the primacy effect using a concrete grocery-list example.
Video-based synthesis — the closing question asks students to name as many memory-and-forgetting factors from the video as they can recall.

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What real-world scenario frames the worksheet's memory questions?

An eyewitness story: Bernice witnesses a theft, describes the suspect to police, identifies him at the station, and then a memory expert challenges her identification at trial — questions 1-5 trace that sequence before the worksheet moves into memory vocabulary.

How is the final question meant to be graded?

As open-ended: the teacher guide notes that responses will vary and may include any of several concepts covered earlier, such as the primacy effect, the recency effect, context-dependent memory, implicit and explicit memory, priming, or chunking.

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Standards, concepts & topics

Standards

CCSS.L.9.6 — Acquire and use accurately general academic and domain-specific words and phrases, sufficient for reading, writing, speaking, and listening at the college and career readiness level; demonstrate independence in gathering vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression.

Core concepts

Memory encoding and retrieval
Implicit vs. explicit memory
Priming
Primacy effect

Topics

memory psychology crash course critical thinking

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