Psyc345 Memory Lab
Empathy set

This study concerns how people empathize with others.. For instance, when people empathize they try to look at things from another person's perspective. Attached you'll find a pile of cards here which describe what this person, Ellen, did in a variety of situations. What you need to do is to sort the cards into three piles. So that we can get an idea of what your piles mean to you, write down a label for each of your piles either while you are sorting or when you are through.

After you have finished sorting, you'll be asked why Ellen did what she did; your task will be to try to anticipate Ellen's own answers to these same questions.

Memory set

This study concerns memory...in how you remember what other people do. Attached you'll find a pile of cards here which describe what this person, Ellen, did in a variety of situations. What you need to do is to sort the cards into three piles. So that we can get an idea of what your piles mean to you, write down a label for eahc of your piles either while you are sorting or when you are through.

After you have finished sorting, you'll be asked to recall as many of the episodes as you can...In sorting use the criterion for which episodes go into which piles that you think will help you most in remembering the information on the card.

Goals and Traits

Goals: Medical School; Losing Weight, Dumping Boyfriend.
Traits: Dishonest; Short-tempered; Kind/Generous

Behaviors

During a chemistry exam, Ellen sneaked a glance at her neighbors answers. (med school, dishonest)

At a restaurant, Ellen gave her nephews the dessert that came with her dinner. (diet, generous)

When her friend Celia wasn't looking, Ellen stole five diet pills from Celia's purse. (diet, dishonest)

Ellen told her boyfriend that she'd gone shopping, when really she was having coffee with another guy. (dump boyfriend, dishonest)

Ellen invited her friend to a movie that she and her boyfriend were going to see. (dump boyfriend, dishonest)

Before the history test, Ellen loaned her notes to a girl who'd missed class because her grandma died (med school, generous)

Ellen swore as she tried to type between the tiny lines on the med school application (med school, short-tempered)

When he was forty minutes late to pick her up, Ellen acidly told her boyfriend that he was a jerk sometimes (dump boyfriend, short-tempered)

Ellen snapped at her mother, after her mom suggested it wasn't good to skip meals.(diet, short-tempered).