Oral Defense AP Sem

 1. Student A, how did the group decide to include Student B’s perspective/lens/conclusions into the overall presentation? Ella

• Provided psychological and neurological basis for the project

• Understand the main idea of what goes on in the brain that makes it misremember things so easily

• Put emphasis on the malleability of memory

• Also a lot of studies and examples

• For example: Deese-Roediger-McDermott

1. Student A, how did the group decide to include Student B’s perspective/lens/conclusions into the overall presentation? Victoria

• Historical and theoretical lense

• Historical: helped understand the origin, how it got its name 

• Helped understand the context for how this even started 

• acted as a basis for understanding the overall idea

• Ex: the story about the misrememberance of Nelson Madela’s death acted as an example and a basis for understanding what is being talked about

• Theoretical: understand some scientific theories (yet to be proven) explaining why the Mandela Effect takes place and what it may mean for the state of our universe

 2. Student A, give one specific way that your thinking changed as a result of learning about Student B’s findings.  Ella

• One of the things that changed my perspective about this topic was the correlation of memory and emotion

• Specifically, this was the information about the amygdala—a major part of the brain which is associated with memory corelation to emotions

• What her research said is that we have better memory of things that cause largely emotional surges

• Therefore, things that are associated with less emotion are more likely to be misremembered

 2. Student A, give one specific way that your thinking changed as a result of learning about Student B’s findings.  Victoria

• The association of the Mandela Effect with the Multiverse and Parallel Reality Theories showed us that (even though not yet proven) there is a potential correlation within the happening of our universe and the working of our brain, leading to a linkage that could explain why we misremember and what about the universe leads us to this

• There might be non-tangible things that cause this—things that we might never know affect our very brains

• my research was all about concrete evidence, things in our real world

• but hers provided a contrast of not just thoery, but a whole potential truth that we might not know of

3. Reflecting on your colleagues’ work, which one had the greatest impact on your overall understanding of the problem your group identified?

• Ella’s work had the greatest impact on my overall understanding of the Mandela Effect thanks to her research which provided the basics on the psychological and neurological aspects

• Her examples of studies, such as the Deese-Roediger-McDermott study 

• Helped understand the nature of the brain and the common trends Understand the main idea of what goes on in the brain that makes it misremember things so easily

• Put emphasis on the malleability of the brain

• Also a lot of studies and examples

• understanding how the individual works and then we could work our way into understanding how everyone works collectively

4. What is an example of a compelling argument from one of your peer’s individual reports that you decided to exclude from your team presentation and why?

• Victoria researched a lot of “good” examples which showed more perspectives about how easily memory can be manipulated 

• Although they were very insightful, we decided to exclude them because we had more relevant and concrete examples

5. What is a way in which your team’s resolution makes you think differently about your own individual research?

• My team’s resolution about the psychological aspects made me realize that the

• The Mandela Effect is not just about a group of people who misremember something, but it is broken down into the individual person and brain— into layers of different factors, and a cause and effect loophole which never ends

• Everything affects everything

6. Describe an argument from one of your peer’s individual reports that made you think differently about your team’s solution or conclusion

Victoria’s argument on the potential correlation between the Mandela Effect and the Multiverse Theory as well as the Parallel Reality Theory made me reconsider how we view the workings of our brain and perception of the world. This interesting potential linkage between our universe and our own thoughts shows that there is a lot more to memory that we do not know. This made me reconsider if there is more to the Mandela Effect than schemas and subjectivity of reality, but an underlying source that comes from what is happening within our universe.

7. If you had another team member, what other perspectives or limitations could they have researched that would have made a useful contribution to the project?

• How it differs between age  groups

• Study the brain more deeply

• Could have been useful to understanding how this applies to daily life, what are the trends seen with it, and overall a more detailed analyses and research