Name: Crash Course Psychology Episode Worksheet | 13 - How We Make Memories
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What's inside this resource

Crash Course Psychology Episode Worksheet: How We Make Memories This 2-page digital worksheet complements the Crash Course Psychology video on how humans form memories. It contains 15 short answer questions tailored to the 10-minute Crash Course video, allowing students to check their understanding as they watch. An answer key is included for self-assessment. This engaging resource works well for individual reflection, small groups, or whole class activities in high school psychology units on memory. Use it to spark discussions or as a homework assignment. Check out more psychology resources like Sociology worksheets and moral philosophy slides at the Active Social Studies store.

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

Summarise the Clive Wearing case and explain what his condition shows about memory
Name the three ways memories are accessed - recall, recognition and relearning - and explain how different test types measure each
Attribute the three-stage model of memory formation to Richard Atkinson and Richard Shiffrin and name its stages: encoding, storage and retrieval
Distinguish sensory, short-term and long-term memory, including short-term memory's roughly thirty-second span and four-to-seven-item capacity
Explain how information moves from short-term to long-term memory through encoding and rehearsal

Teaching tips

The question order tracks the episode, so students can answer as they watch rather than afterwards - items 1 to 3 cover the opening Clive Wearing segment and items 8 to 14 the Atkinson-Shiffrin model that closes it
Questions 5 and 6 overlap deliberately: one asks how memories are typically accessed and the next asks for the three ways by name, which gives a weaker student a second chance at the same content
Item 15 is the only open question and asks students to think back to Clive; save it for discussion rather than marking it against the key, which records only that answers will vary
The short-term memory figures - under thirty seconds, four to seven bits - are the two most testable facts in the episode and appear in two separate items, so they are worth pausing the video on

Skills covered

Extracting factual answers from a video - fifteen items require specific details from the episode, including names, dates and numbers such as 1985, four to seven bits, and thirty seconds.
Understanding a psychological model - questions 8 and 9 name Atkinson and Shiffrin and require their three stages of encoding, storage and retrieval.
Distinguishing related technical terms - separate items define sensory, short-term and long-term memory, and another asks how information passes between the last two.
Reading a case study for meaning - the Clive Wearing questions ask not only what happened to him but what his condition reveals about memory's role.
Writing a reflective response - the closing item asks how memory shapes relationships, with no single correct answer.

Good to know

Questions teachers ask about this resource

Does the sheet work without the video?

No - it is written to accompany one specific episode. The student page is headed "Use the video linked above to answer the following questions" and carries a hyperlink reading "Link to Episode: Here". Every item asks for a detail stated in that episode.

Who is Clive Wearing and why does the sheet keep returning to him?

He is an accomplished London musician who contracted a rare Herpes encephalitis virus in 1985 and can remember almost none of his past nor form new memories. Three questions open the sheet on his case, and the final reflective item asks students to think of him again when considering how memory shapes relationships.

How specific do the expected responses get?

Quite specific. The key names Richard Atkinson and Richard Shiffrin, lists encoding, storage and retrieval as the three stages, and records that short-term memory holds information for usually under thirty seconds and between four and seven distinct bits at a time - figures a student would need to catch during the episode.