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Question

What is articulatory suppression task

Answer 1

A repetitive task that ties up the articulatory process

Answer 2

That participants had more difficultly doing two visual (tracking a light and describing the letter F) than dong a visual and verbal task at the same time

Answer 3

Gave participants tasks involved the central executive while they were having a brain scan

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Found greater activity in area known as the left prefrontal cortex Activity in this area increased as the task become harder Demands on the CE increase it has to work harder to fulfill its function

Answer 5

They asked rugby players to try remember the names of teams they had played so far in that season week by week Because most of the players had missed games for some the last team they played might have been two weeks ago of three weeks ago

Answer 6

The results showed that accurate recall did not depend on how long ago the matches took place Much more important was the number of games played in the meantime So a player recall of a team from three weeks ago was better of they had played no matches since then

Answer 7

Gave participants five lists of 24 words each list organised into six categories The categories were not explicit but was presumed that they would be obvious too participants

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Recall was about 70% for the first word list but fell as participants were given each additional list to learn presumably due to interference At the end they were given a cued recall test they were told the names of the categories as a clue recall rose again to 70%

Answer 9

Goes so far as to argue that retrieval failure is perhaps the main reason for forgetting from LTM

Answer 10

Some examples

Answer 11

Suggests cues are worth paying attention to For instance we have all had the following experience of Being in your bedroom and thinking i should go downstairs Go downstairs only to forget what it was you come down When you go back upstairs remember When we are having trouble remembering something It is worth making the effort to try and recall the environment in which you learned it first

Answer 12

Argues that context effects are actually not very strong especially in real life Different contexts have to be very different need before and effect is seen

Answer 13

Replicated underwater experiment but used a recognition test instead of recall participants had to say wether they recognised a word read to them from a list instead of retrieving it for themselves

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That leading questions can have such distorting effect on memory that police offices need to be very careful about how they phrase their questions when interviewing eyewitnesses

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People in age group 18-25 and 35-45 were more accurate than people in the group 55-78 All age groups were more accurate when identify people of their own age group

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When you are more accurate when identify people of their own age group

Answer 17

Argue that many answers participants give in lab studies of EWT are result of demand characteristics

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Points out that you remember as an eyewitness can have a very important consequences in the real world but the same is not true in research studies

Answer 19

Conducted an experiment using scissors a handgun a wallet or a raw chicken as the hand held item in a hairdressing Salon video (where scissors would be low anxiety low unusualness) Eyewitness accuracy was significantly poorer in the high unusualness conditions (chicken and handgun)

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Found that CI also requires special training and many forces have nit been able to provide more than a few hours

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Found that each individual element was equally valuable Found that using combination of report everything and reinstatement produced better recall than any of the other conditions

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