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Who did research into coding?

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Baddely

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What did baddely find out about coding?

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Acoustic in STM

Semantic in LTM

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What was baddelys procedure?

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4 different groups

4 different conditions

PPS asked to recall lists of words

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What was baddelys conclusion?

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PPS did worse with acoustically similar words

If asked to recall 20 mins later PPS did worse with semantically similar words

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Did baddely use artificial stimuli?

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Yes

Word lists had no personal significance

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What did Jacob’s find?

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That mean digit span is 9.3 items

That mean letter span is 7.3

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What was Jacob’s experiment?

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Asked PPS to recall 4 digits in the correct order then 5 etc etc

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What did miller discover?

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Noticed things come in sevens- led to him discovering chunking

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What does both Jacob’s and millers experiments lack?

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Validity — could be extraneous variables such as distractions

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Counter evidence to miller?

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Cowan estimated STM about 4 chunks

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What did Peterson discover?

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STM duration is up to 18s without rehersal

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What did bahrick find?

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Yearbooks

Recognition of Faces 90% after 15 years, recall 60%

Recognition dropped to 70% after 48 years

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Disadvantage of Peterson’s experiment?

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Meaningless stimuli (constant syllables)

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Advantage of bahrick?

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High external validity- meaning memories

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What is the multi store memory model? (MSM)

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A representation of how memory works in terms of three stores: sensory register, STM, LTM

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What is a sensory register?

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The memory stores for each of our five senses

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Where is vision coded for? (Sensory register)

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Iconic store

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Where is hearing stored?

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Echoic store

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What is the capacity of the sensory register

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Huge (millions of receptors)

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What is the duration of the sensory register?

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less than half a second

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What is the capacity and duration for both echoic and iconic?

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Brief duration and high capacity

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How do you get iconic and echoic stores to transfer to memory?

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By paying attention to

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In the main, how is STM coded for?

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Acoustically

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How do you transfer info from STM to LTM?

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By rehearsal

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List the capacity and duration of STM
Duration = 30ish seconds Capacity = 5 ish items
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What is the capacity and duration of LTM?
Unlimited
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In the main, how is LTM coded for?
Semantically
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How is LTM created?
Through maintenance rehersal
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Supporting research for MSM?
Studies into coding, capacity and duration demonstrates differences between STM and LTM
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Disadvantage of MSM?
More than one type of rehearsal- elaborative rehersal necessary for transfer to LTM
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Is there more than one type of STM?
Yes- studies on amnesia show different STMs for visual and auditory
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What is episodic memory?
Events in our daily lives (‘diary’)
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What is semantic memory?
Memory for knowledge of the world- includes language
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What is procedural memory?
Memory for automatic and skilled behaviours
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What are episodic, semantic and procedural memory types of?
LTM
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Evidence to support episodic, semantic and procedural memory?
Clive wearing & HM had damaged episodic memory but semantic and procedural was fine
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Evaluation of clinical evidence (eg. HM)
Case studies very individual so cannot generalise
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What did neuroimaging show about episodic and procedural memory?
Recalled from different parts of the prefrontal cortex
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Does long term memory study have real life application?
Yes Training programmes for adults with mild cognitive impairment
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What is working memory model used for?
Dynamic processing in short term memory
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List the 4 parts of the working memory model
Central executive Phonological loop Visuo spatial sketchpad Episodic buffer
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What is the central executives role in the WWM?
Coordinates slave systems and allocates resources Limited storage
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What is the phonological loops role in the WWM?
Auditory info Phonological store and articulatory process (maintenance rehearsal)
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What is the visuo spatial sketchpad’s role in the WWM?
Visual information Visual cache (store) and inner scribe (spatial arrangement)
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What is the episodic buffers role?
Integrates processing of slave systems and records the order of events (linked to LTM)
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Disadvantage of the central executive?
Not yet fully explained, most likely has different components
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Support of WWM, dual task performance?
Difficult to do two visual tasks at a time, but one visual and one verbal is ok. (Baddely et al)
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Clinical evidence for WWM?
KF had poor auditory memory but good visual memory Damaged PL but VSS fine
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What are the two types of interference?
Proactive- old disrupt new Retroactive- new disrupt old
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What did Mcgeroch and McDonald study?
Studied retroactive interference- by using 6 groups who had to recall 10 words
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What did McGeroch and McDonald find?
Recalling Similar words created more interference
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What is the supporting evidence for interference?
Baddely and hitch (rugby players recalling who they had played that season) supported interference
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Disadvantage of interference studies?
Artificial materials used (lists of words)
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What did lab studies show about interference?
These well controlled experiments showed interference
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What is the encoding specifics principle? (And who)
TULVING Cues most effective if present at coding and at retrieval (meaningful link?)
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Who looked into context depending forgetting?
Godden and Baddely (deep sea divers) Recall was much better when external contexts matched
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Who looked into state depending forgetting?
Carter and Cassiday
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What did carter and cassiday find?
(Anti-histamine) Recall better when internal states matched
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What is the supporting evidence for retrieval failure theory?
Eyesnick claims retrieval failure is most important reason for LTM forgetting
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Disadvantage of Baddely research for retrieval failure?
No forgetting unless contexts are very different (land vs under water)n
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Recall vs recognition for retrieval failure?
A sense of cues affects recall but not recognition
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What did lotus and palmer investigate?
Estimating Car speeds affected by leading questions
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What did loftus and palmer find?
Verb smashed speed estimated = 40.5 mph Verb contacted speed estimated = 32.8 mph
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Why do leading questions affect EWT?
Response bias- no change to memory Substitution explanation supported by loftus and palmer- verb smashed PPS more likely to report seeing broken glass
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How does post event discussion affect eyewitness testimony?
Discussions contaminate eyewitness memory Gabbert et al demonstrates effect, calls it memory conformity- NSI involved
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Disadvantage of the experiments conducted looking into misleading info for EWT?
Tasks are artificial
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Advantage of research into misleading information in EWT?
Real life application- help avoid miscarriages of justice by changing police interviewing
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What are the individual differences effects on Misleading info on EWT?
Age- older people may be less accurate because of own age bias
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Who did research into anxiety having a negative effect on EWT?
Johnson and Scott
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What did Johnson and Scott find?
(Weapon focus) High anxiety knife condition led to less good recall Tunnel theory of memory- focus on weapon mostly
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Who did research into anxiety has a positive effect on EWT?
Yuille and cutshall
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What did yuille and cutshall find?
(Shooting) High anxiety associated with better recall when witnessing real crime
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Who explained contradictory findings for anxiety and EWT?
Yerkes- Dodson law suggests both low and high anxiety lead to poor recall
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Why might weapon focus not be important for EWT?
Pickle (raw chicken) showed that it may be surprise and therefore tells us nothing about effects of anxiety?
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What are the ethical issues surrounding anxiety and EWT?
Creating anxiety in lab studies may cause psychological harm
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Disadvantage of feild study (in link to anxiety and EWT)
Cannot control what happens to witnesses between the crime and the interview
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What are the 4 steps involved in the cognitive interview?
Report everything Reinstate the context Reverse the order Change perspective
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What is happens in the report everything step?
Include every detail even unimportant events- interviewed shouldn’t interrupt
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What happens in reinstating the context?
Picture then scene and recall how you felt Context-dependent forgetting
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What happens in reversing the order?
Recall from the end and work backwards Disrupts expectations
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What happens in changing the perspective?
Put yourself in the shoes of someone else present Disrupts schema
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What is the enhanced cognitive interview?
Adds social dynamics eg. Establishing eye contact
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Disadvantage of CI?
Takes longer and need special training
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Advantage of ECI?
Constantly produces more accurate recall than standard interview
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Disadvantage of CI? (Information)
Creates an increase in inaccurate information

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