Factors affecting EWT

Question 1

MSM

Answer 1

LTM:can be retrieved to STM e.g questioning
STM: must be rehearsed to be encoded into LTM

Question 2

Tulving

Answer 2

Semantic:stores knowledge of the world- everyones semantic is diff-eye witness is subjective
Episodic: EWT reliant on episodic mems- have to be retrieved consciously

Question 3

Misinformation effect

Answer 3

Post event information interfering with the memory of the original event
e.g Loftus Bug´s Bunny exp

Question 4

Reconstructive Memory

Answer 4

Distortion: incorrect memories that map onto existing schemas.
Simplification: remembering the gist of events but lacking details
Rationalisation: changing unfamiliar parts to fit in with own culture
Transformation: Using schema based knowledge to interpret situations.

Question 5

Reconstructive hypothesis

Answer 5

two bits of info go into one memory- info gathered from event, info supplied after-intergrated and merge together-unable to know where it came from.

Question 6

Weapon focus

Answer 6

witness focuses on the weapon not the offender-sig lower recall of details on the offender.

Question 7

Yerkes-Dodson Law

Answer 7

as arousal/stress increases, performance improves up to the optimum point,where it starts to decrease