cognitive

Question 1

cognitive assumtion?

Answer 1

cognitive processing influences behaviour

Question 2

HM?

Answer 2

51 years, following brain surgery which removed 2/3 of hippocampus , could not learn new info

Question 3

WMM?

Answer 3

central executive- most important controls functions
phonological loop, processes speech and written info
-phonological loop (inner ear) speech persepction in written form
-Articulatory process(outer ear) rehearse and store verbal info
Visuo-spatial sketchpad: visual and spatial images/postions/locations.

Question 4

Baddeley results?

Answer 4

Stm relies on acoustic encoding (sound different) and LTM relies on semantic encoding (different meaning)

Question 5

case studies?

Answer 5

HM
KF: motorcycle accident damaged parietal lobe and stm. Digit span of 1 (phonological store damaged) but intact visual store. supports wpm different systems
KC: motorcycle accident, episodic memories were damaged, semantic still in tact

Question 6

dyslexia evidence?

Answer 6

mcdougall et al- poor readers had worse memories

Question 7

alzeimers evidence:

Answer 7

baddeley et al 2000, alzeimers led rot reduced attention span

Question 8

contemporary aim?

Answer 8

investigate the development of the phonological loop of children between ages of 5-17 using digit span

Question 9

contemporary results

Answer 9

5: 3.76
15-17: 5.83

Question 10

LTM incomplete?

Answer 10

1985 procedural memory was added

Question 11

evidence for reconstructive?

Answer 11

loftus and palmer
brewer and trevyers, recall of expected items in an office.

Question 12

key question?

Answer 12

is EWT too unreliable to trust?
+MSM (barrack and 70/80% recall from high school)
+LTM (Godden and Baddeley (1975) +reconstructive (loftus and palmer)-

Question 13

stat test for practical?

Answer 13

Wilcoxon signed ranks, 16.5, not significant, accept null…