Memory Eval Flashcards
(9 cards)
Coding capacity and duration
Baddeley:
(+) Led to MSM
(-) Artificial store: Irl meaningful information may lead to semantic coding for STM
Jacobs:
(+) Confirmed by Bopp and Verhaegen
Miller:
(-) Cowan contradiction: STM is only 4 +/1
Bahrick:
(+) Real: Shepard: Meaningless LTM recall lower
MSM
(-) Shallice and Warrington contradiction: KF with AMNESIA, more than 1 STM store.
(-) Craik and Watkin contradiction: ELBAORATIVE REHEARSAL not PROLONGED REHEARSAL
(+) Support: All the studies that highlight differences between LTM and STM
CC: Studies use artificial tasks
Types of LTM
(-) Conflicted NEUROIMAGING evidence: Buckner and Petersen: Semantic on left PREFRONTAL CORTEX and episodic and right PREFRONTAL CORTEX, different to other NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL evidence (Tulving).
(+) Helps with episodic memory deterioration: Belleville: Intervention helped compared to control group to improve episodic recall
(+) Case Studies: Clive Wearing: Procedural and Semantic in tact.
CC: Idiographic approach
WMM
(+) Baddeley Support: Dual task performance. Tasks had to compete for the same SLAVE SUBSYSTEM
(-) Lack of clarity over CE: Baddeley “Most important but least understood”. Some believe it may consist of SEPARATE SUBCOMPONENTS. UNSATIFCATORY COMPONENT.
(+) Case Studies: KF: Procedural and Semantic in tact.
CC: Idiographic approach, example: Other cognitive impairments from motorbike crash
Interference
(-) Artificial tasks
(+) Evidence of RETROGRADE FACILITATION: Diazepam facilized recall when taken AFTER learning list then waiting a week. Diazepam reduced interference (Coenen and Gilles)
(-) Baddeley and Hitch Support: Rugby players
CC: Rare example: Interference is otherwise rare due to lab conditions needed
Retrieval Faliure
(-) Godden and Baddeley contradiction: Recognition had no effect when REPLICATED.
(+) Real-application: Use cues irl to help us
(-) Not applicable to real life: Real life wont have as different situations as on land and in water
Misleading info
(-) Zaragosa and McCloskey: Demand characteristics: Please-U effect
(+) Evidence supporting contamination: Skagerberg and Wright: 2 different hair colours, result was a mixture
(+) Justice system application: Inform police officers, inform JURY
CC: Practical application may be misinformed due to lab conditions
EWT Anxiety
Eval:
(-) Unusualness: Pickel: Replicated but with scissors, handgun, wallet, raw chicken. Significantly higher in handgun and raw chicken
(+) Valentine and Mesout Support: High anxiety group (measured with heart rate) lower recall of actor in Londons Dungeon Labyrinth
(+) Christianson and Hubinette support: Workers directly involved (higher anxiety) remembered more about bank robbery than those who did not.
CC: Interviewed 4-15 months after the event
Cognitive Interview Eval:
(-) Some elements not needed: Milne and Bull: Report everything and reinstate context had the best effect
(-) Time consuming: Time training, time to build rapport
(+) Kohnken support: Meta analysis of 55 studies showed that 41% increase in accurate information
CC: Also increase inaccurate information
