Applied Cognition - Five Activities

I completed the five activities on the Applied Cognition website. I found them to be interesting and challenging at the same time.

The first activity that I completed was Recognition. In Recoginition they had an array of pennies and the goal was to chose the real penny from the rest. After looking at the pennies for quite awhile I finally just guessed and to my surprise I guessed correctly on the first try.

The second activity that I completed was The Mnemonicizer. This was to show how mnemonic devices can help us to remember miscellaneous information. Examples of mnemonic devices include: All Cow's Eat Grass (for treble clef on the piano) or PEMDAS (parentheses, exponents, multiply, divide, add, subtract) for the order of operations in math. I tried to make a mnemonic device to remember the nine planets (technically eight because apparently Pluto isn't one... I guess). I failed miserably at this task and ended up with the sentence: Moneys voted elaborate meals just so unicorns nibble pleasantly.

The third activity that I completed was Human Memory. This involved hearing twenty words and then you had to write down all the ones you recalled. This is very similar to the in class activities that we did on Wednesday. I did all right on this, but definitely not as well as I did on the in class activities.

The fourth activity that I completed was Interference. This activity involved hearing a list of seven numbers and remembering them. Then each time they gave you a new list of seven numbers with interference to try and hinder your ability of remembering the numbers. I did well on the first list getting all seven numbers but the other two times I did not do so well.

The fifth and final activity that I completed was Short Term Memory. The activity first gives seven pictures and you have to try and remember them. I did well and remembered all seven. The activity then gives you seven words to try and remember. I got all but two. Then the third time they give you seven new words to try and remember. I got five the next time too