“Doctored images can affect what we eat, how we vote and even our childhood recollections. The
question scientists are asking is why there’s
nothing we can do to stop it.”
By: Rose Eveleth
Published: BBC, 13
December 2012, http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20121213-fake-pictures-make-real-memories
Level of Difficulty:
**
BEFORE YOU READ
·
Elizabeth Loftus: How reliable is
your memory? https://www.ted.com/talks/elizabeth_loftus_the_fiction_of_memory
·
Scott Fraser: Why eyewitnesses get it wrong
QUESTIONS
1.
What exactly is the “glitch” that the writer
refers to? The fact that….
2.
The writer implies that the way our memories are
formed and the way our minds work makes deception easier / makes forgetting
easier / makes remembering easier/ makes misdirection easier / makes misconduct
easier.
3.
What conclusion can be drawn from the experiment
with the hot air balloon and the one with Bugs Bunny?
4.
What surprising discovery was made as a result
of the gambling experiment?
5.
Imagine you wanted to remove the word “it” at
the end of the sentence beginning “Of course, people aren’t walking…” just below the subtitle "Political Trickery. What
would you replace it with? Be careful. This is a grammar question and has one
answer.
6. The experiment carried out by Slate demonstrated that
it is possible to promote damage to property /alter attitudes to protests /
make protests more crowded / increase the danger of injuries.
7.
Most news channels have plenty of visual material
on their websites. We learn from the article that this could be because……
8.
Who would be more likely to believe photos
showing Vladimir Putin saving beached whales?
9.
What innate problem seems to prevent people from
being able to pick out fake images? The human inability to…
10.
Why, according to the text, do we remember a
particular joke but not who told it? Because although we remember the joke, …………………………..
11.
The bad news concerning all the experiments
involving fake images is that …
12.
What is the difference between the examples of
doctored images provided in the paragraph beginning “The worry” and the
photograph of John Kerry at a Vietnam War protest. Explain in your own words.
13.
The take home point from this text is that our
memory is often…..and therefore open to manipulation.
WRITING TASK
Write a cause and effect essay where you discuss the reasons
why fake news has such a powerful grip on people’s minds.
HOW FAKE IMAGES
CHANGE OUR MEMORY AND BEHAVIOR KEY AND TEACHERS’ NOTES
The issue of fake
news has been dominating the headlines around the world so it will be
interesting to analyse the reasons why such news has such a grip on our minds
even if it is proved to be wrong. The text examines the reasons for this issue
and reports the findings of studies that have been carried out.
1. The
fact that human memory is like a desert mirage
2. Makes
misdirection easier
3. Old
memories seem the easiest to manipulate
4. Even
after being told that the footage was doctored, participants sometimes recalled
the cheating that never happened.
5. That
you have seen them
6. Alter
attitudes to protests
7. People
trust photographs so much that they actually place more weight on information
that is accompanied with an image (regardless of…)
8. His
supporters
9. Analyse
lighting and reflections
10.
We don’t remember where the information came
from.
11.
There is not much that anyone can really do to
guard against being duped by these images
12.
Possible answer: décor or props are added in the
first case. The events did actually take place. The event is completely wrong
in the second case; it never happened at all.
13.
Non-factual
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