Your task is to design a presentation on your assigned topic.
When doing so, try to emphasis at least one TOK concept in the presentation. The TOK concepts are reliability, technology, evidence, validity, certainty, culture, values, beliefs, truth and bias. You will find information in your textbook and resources on my website.
Group 1 Matthew Kwong, Josh, Matthew Lau
The nature of memory
Types of memory: (personal, factual and practical) & (sensory, short-term
and long-term) What kinds of memories do animals have? How are they similar to and how are they different from human memories? The mechanics of memory: neuroscientific basis (dealing with issues of encoding, storage and retrieval of memories) do you really know something if you can passively recognize the answer when you see it or hear it, but are unable to produce it when asked?
Group 2 Megan, Felix, Meghan
The ethics of memory
To what extent do different religions encourage us to forgive and forget?
Is it always wrong to meddle with peoples memories? investigate the issue of PTSD in military veterans Do you think it is better for countries to face up to shameful incidents in their past, or is it better for them to put such incidents behind them? look at relations between China & Japan, and the issue of holding truth and reconciliation commissions in some countries to deal with unethical/immoral past events, but not in other countries. Group 3 Ho Wang, Ingrid, Donna
The reliability of memory
Difference between forgetting and misremembering if you read and enjoy
a novel and a few months later cant remember anything about it, in what way, if any, does it detract from the value of reading? Flashbulb memories is our memory really strengthened in emotionally- charged events? False memories look at the work of Dr. Elizabeth Loftus Memory biases (egocentric bias; narrative bias; emotional bias; vividness bias; hindsight bias and source amnesia) if you had a video of your entire life to date, how much of a discrepancy do you think there would be between your memory and reality? Do you think it is more important to have accurate memories of the past or happy memories of the past?
Group 4 Jerry, Ella, Hoi Man
Eye-witness testimony
Four key sources of interference (stereotyping; misidentification; leading
questions; and imagination inflation) what criteria would you use to decide whether eye-witness testimony is a reliable source of evidence? To what extent does memory inform our [sense] perceptions and expectations? How can we distinguish between memory and imagination?
Group 5 Ian, Sean, Kyle
Construct a psychological test that tests a persons memory
Investigate the methodology used by a psychologist to undertake
experiements Design an experiment that tests the reliability of memory, or the effect of a particular variable on memory. The experiment should be valid, reliable and ethical. You need to give detailed step-by-step instructions to another scientist as to how to conduct the experiment.