Memory — Cognition, Part 1

The through-line

Memory is the unit where the content and the method are the same thing. Students are learning how encoding works while encoding it, and how forgetting works while forgetting it. That's an opportunity most units don't offer, and the plans already exploit it — nearly every concept arrives as a demonstration performed on the class rather than a definition delivered to it. Serial position, depth of processing, digit span, context effects, remote associates, the rumor chair, the eyewitness scene. Students experience their own memory failing in a specific, predictable way — and remembering that failure is the rehearsal. The demonstrations do the encoding; the terms only name what the class already lived. So review here means re-running the demos, not re-reading the list.

How to use the lesson pages

• Same conventions as every unit in this course — one path per slot, 90-minute blocks, bold non-negotiables, alternates in the appendices. The full how-to is on the course page.