Question I
What makes up the cortical and subcortical brain? How are these two structures of the human brain different, and what are three examples of ways that they work together in your day-to-day life?
Question II
Do you feel that you have a strong working memory: why or why not? What types of strategies can help someone trying to remember a large amount of information, and what might hinder someone from remembering as many items at a time as they would like?
Question III
You get a major promotion at work (congrats!). How does this experience get processed by your memory system? Why might this memory feel "stronger" than the memory of any other day at work? What would you have to do to "forget" this memory, and how successful do you think you would be at that?
Question IV
You go to your favorite restaurant to order dinner. What are the schemas and scripts involved in this event? To what degree are phonetics, semantics, and syntax important in the role of schemas and scripts?
Question V
Although humans are known for their ability to recognize faces, what tends to (i) help us remember and (ii) skew our memories of faces? What are two real-world scenarios where memories for faces may be impacted by bias?