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Fun With Psychology - Would You Make a Good Eye Witness?

Discover how memory and attention work, through fun activities that test how good an eye witness you would be. The class looks at how we can fail to see something even when looking right at it and how our memorys work.
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1 live meeting
55 mins in-class hours
Certificate of Completion
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Class Experience

US Grade 7 - 10
Beginner Level
The class will provide a fun and interactive look at how our minds work. This class will introduce the topics of memory and attention. The theme of the lesson is 'would you make a good eye witness?' We will go through a number of interactive activities that allow learners to experience first hand the way our memories can often be in accurate followed by an explanaition of why these errors can occur. We also look at our limited attention capacity and why we cannot attend to everything we see.

The class will start with a short story to show learners that our memories work by attaching meaning to events.

We will look at videos which demonstrate that we can often miss things that happen right in front of us.

Learners will also have the chance to be witnesses to a crime (this only involves a 'criminal' walking away with an item that has been left unattended) and test how well they would do as an eye witness. 

All the activites are a relaxed and fun way to show learners first hand how human memory and attention work.
Learning Goals
How our memories work and why this is important in eye witness accounts
How eye witness accounts can be improved
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Pre-Requisites
This is an introductory class so there are no previous requirements.
Supply List
None required
External Resources
Learners will not need to use any apps or websites beyond the standard Outschool tools.
Joined October, 2024
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I have a diploma of higher education in forensic psychology and am currently in the final year of a forensic psychology degree. 

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Meets once
55 min

Live video meetings
Ages: 11-15
2-9 learners per class

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