issues and debates

Question 1

ethics

Answer 1

case studies of brain damaged patients such as HM raise issues of confidentiality and informed consent.

Question 1

practical issues

Answer 1

most research lies on lab experiments so raise issues around ecological validity, mundane realism in the tasks carried out, control and operayionalisayton of variables

Question 2

reductionism

Answer 2

studying memory
breaking up areas of cognition such as memory and forgetting and less importune is placed on the interconnections between parts of the brain.

Question 3

comparisons

Answer 3

models of memory show different ways of explaining memory

Question 4

psych as science

Answer 4

one of the most scientific perspectives as it adopts the scientific method in explaining how we process info.

Question 5

culture and gender

Answer 5

how memory is reconstructed based on culture of gender stereotypes; or differences in digit span

Question 6

nature nurture

Answer 6

hm would suggest that the hippocampus plays an important inherent role in forming new memories so sides with nature
reconstructive memory emphasises on how our learned schema and experinces have helped our memories develop through interaction with the environment.

Question 7

understanding over time

Answer 7

baqddleys work led to the working model.
has illustrated how knowledge about behaviour is built over time.
EWT led to questioning of reliability in witnesses

Question 8

social control

Answer 8

use of EWT and manipulation using leading questions in courtroom situations

Question 9

knowledge in society

Answer 9

help with dementia
helping aid revision techniques
debate whether EWT is reliable

Question 10

socially sensitive

Answer 10

issues of memory loss due to dementia and how the study of this is socially sensitive