Crash Course Psychology #14: Remembering and Forgetting

Explore how memories form and why they can be unreliable. This Crash Course Psychology viewing guide uses an eyewitness story to connect memory concepts with everyday experiences.
Grades
Grades 9–12
Pages
2
File type
Zip
Answer key
Included

Updated Feb 21, 2024

Subject
Social Studies
Topic
Memory, Eyewitness testimony
Resource types
Worksheets, Activities
Answer key
Included
Standards
CCSS.L.9.6

Product description

From the author

Crash Course Psychology: Remembering and Forgetting offers educators a viewing guide 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.
The 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.

In the classroom

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.

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).

  • Video-based synthesis — the closing question asks students to name as many memory-and-forgetting factors from the video as they can recall.

Good to know

Questions teachers ask about this resource

Can students use the questions while watching the episode?

Yes. The questions follow the episode’s eyewitness story and memory concepts. Pause for students to write, then use the teacher responses to discuss their explanations.

How do I use the remembering-and-forgetting guide with the video?

Open the separate Crash Course episode through the supplied link. The download provides student questions and teacher responses in Word and PDF.

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Curriculum

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

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