Memory

Question 1

Cognitive interview
Fisher + Geiselman

Answer 1

1. Report Everything
2. Reinstate Context
3. Reverse Order
4. Change Perspective

Question 2

Milne + Bull

Answer 2

Combination of report everything + context reinstatement produced better recall

Question 3

Johnson + Scott

Answer 3

Greasy pen
Bloody knife

Question 4

Yuille + Cutshall

Answer 4

Gun Shop
13/21 witnesses took part
Interviewed 4-5 months after and compared to original police report

Those who reported highest levels of stress were most accurate (88% compared to 75%)

Question 5

Proactive interference

Answer 5

Older memory interferes with new memory

Question 6

Retroactive interference

Answer 6

New memory interferes with old

Question 7

McGeoch + McDonald

Answer 7

Learn 2 lists then recall original
Most similar lists produced worst recall

Question 8

Baddeley + Hitch

Answer 8

Rugby players

Question 9

WMM

Answer 9

Baddeley

Question 10

Tulving (Retrieval Failure)

Answer 10

Encoding Specificity Principle
-A cue must be present at encoding and at retrieval if it is to help recall

Question 11

Godden + Baddeley

Answer 11

Context dependent forgetting
Divers
Recall 40% lower in non-matching conditions

Question 12

Carter + Cassaday

Answer 12

State-dependant forgetting
Anti-histamines
Recall significantly worse when states were different

Question 13

Attkinson + Shiffrin

Answer 13

MSM

Question 14

Sensory Register

Answer 14

-High capacity
-Short duration (less than 1/2 a second)
-2 main stores:
-Iconic (coded visually)
-Echoic (coded acoustically)
-Info only passes further into memory if attention paid to it