Understanding Information Processing: Slippery Snakes Activity Reflection
This assignment requires you to reflect on the Slippery Snakes activity, which explores the differences between visual and auditory memory. You will write a paragraph summarizing your experience and insights gained from the activity.
Group 1
Reflect on your experience with the Slippery Snakes activity, focusing on how it demonstrated the differences between visual and auditory memory processing.
Janet Simmons and Don Irwin have developed a classroom exercise that powerfully demonstrates that our visual memory is superior to our auditory memory.
Adapted from an exercise developed to compare visual to auditory memory by Don Irwin and Janet Simons from the Developmental Educational Learning Institute in Des Moines, IA, 1993.
Instructions: Please rate the sentence I will read aloud on how well you can form a vivid mental picture or image of the action of the sentence. Use the following scale: 1 (Impossible to image) to 5 (Very easy to image).
Instructions: Please rate the sentences I will read aloud on how easily you can pronounce them. Repeat the sentences silently to yourself. Use the following scale: 1 (Very difficult to pronounce) to 5 (Very easy to pronounce).
Question 1a
Write a five-sentence paragraph on what you learned about how we process information from the Slippery Snakes activity. Include what the instructions asked you to do, how well you were able to recall the information, and what you learned about information processing.
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