Cognitive Psychology

1. After participating in this activity, what do you think the students will remember? How might those memories differ from those students would have if they only read about the Civil War in their textbook?
- I am a very visual learner and so they will have the memory of acting out what happened instead of just reading about it. When reading they will retain some of the events and details, but with the activity they engaged in it will help them understand how they did things and lived during the war.

2. How does Mr. West’s use of a Civil War re-enactment engage students’ emotions? What is the relationship between emotions and learning?
- You remember emotions and how you felt when doing something and that's why you get scared of some things, because you have a memory of being scared doing it before. The students will remember the re-enactment because they were able to live it for a day.

3. Based on the principles of dual-coding theory, what activities would be effective for Mr. West to use as a follow-up to the re-enactment?
- Have them talk about their emotions to remember what went on. He also can have the students read a story about a persons emotions during that time and event and have them compare their emotions to see how alike and different their emotions were with the person in the story.

4. Who do you think provides better instruction for his students? Support your answer from an information processing perspective.
- It depends on the age in my opinion. Mr. Dunkins students know what is expected of them and they might slack on the reading and just hunt for the answers in the book all week and then study a little for the test on Friday. Mr. Richards students don't know what to expect and so they should come to class prepared for anything on a given day. I like Mr. Richards way of a variety of teaching, but if I were his student I would like to know the day before what was going on so I could prepare more for class.

5. How would you expect the students’ learning outcomes to differ depending on which teacher they had?
- Mr. Dunkins students would just retain the information in short-term memory because they would only have to retain it until Friday for the test. Mr. Richards students would retain their learning for longer as long as they do well with being prepared all of the time.