Your homework this week is to continue your path to becoming an experimental cognitive scientist. The data to be analyzed has come from our own class this time!

Take the Transcripts (Alicia removed) from the Story recall we have been doing, and perform an analysis. You can use the summary of the research in Ashcraft (or other sources) as a guide if you wish.

Which information was more likely to be recalled? Which was likely to be forgotten? Was there better memory for meaning or for specific phrases? Facts vs. events? etc. etc.

In particular, report findings and support each finding with examples from the transcripts.

REQUIRED: Look at Brian Winn's Home page, and other page. Look at some of the games he has developed. Are any of them interesting to you? One possibility is that we might examine one or two these games, and do a pilot study of what students actually learn using one of his games.

OPTIONAL: Play a game online you have never played before. Keep in mind our study of learning. After playing it, think about anything you might have learned, or be better at, as a result of having played the game (or would be if you played more).