Decision One:
Curriculum Map
Topic: Cognitive Domain of Psychology – Unit 4A - Memory
Key Learning(s):
Unit Essential Question(s):
Memory Classifications and Processes
Concept:
Encoding IVB-1
Lesson Essential Questions:
What is memory and how
are memories encoded,
stored, and retrieved?
Vocabulary:
Memory, episodic memory,
explicit memory, implicit
memory, encoding, storage,
maintenance rehearsal,
elaborative rehearsal,
retrieval, context-dependent
memories, state-dependent
memory.
Three Stages of Memory
Forgetting and Memory Improvement
Concept:
Concept:
Stages of memory: IVB-2
Memory Improvement: IVB-5
Lesson Essential Questions:
How do the three stages of
memory interact to determine
whether information is
remembered or forgotten?
Lesson Essential Question
What are some of the reasons
people forget, and what can be
done to minimize forgetting?
Vocabulary:
Sensory memory, iconic
memory, eidetic imagery, echoic
memory, short-term memory,
primacy effect, recency effect,
chunking, interference, long-term
memory, schemas
Vocabulary:
Recognition, recall, relearning,
decay, retrograde amnesia,
anterograde amnesia, infantile
amnesia
Grade: 11/12
Optional
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