Topic 2-Memory

Question 1

Strengths of Peterson and Peterson

Answer 1

they used standardised procedures such as fixed timings
Demonstrates how interference of verbal distractions can affect our ability to retain info in our short-term memory

Question 2

Weaknesses Of Peterson

Answer 2

Used Trigrams not ecologically valid
Lacks mundane realism

Question 3

Strengths of MSM

Answer 3

Murdock (1962) discovered the serial position effect
Cases of amnesia show that brain injury can damage the LTM but not the STM

Question 4

Weaknesses Of MSM

Answer 4

Sometimes we remember info but not because we rehearsed it - E.g. the info is more meaningful to us so we remember it
Cases of amnesia show that some long-term memories are damages while others are not

Question 5

Strengths of Bartlett’s Reconstructive memory theory

Answer 5

Police use a cognitive interview to avoid eyewitnesses misremembering events which may lead to the wrong person being prosecuted
Conducted research using folk stories and images, which are a realistic use of memory

Question 6

Weaknesses of barletts reconstructive

Answer 6

Bartlett’s findings could be seen as subjective. Analyzed each story based off his own interpretations.
not very scientific
Cared about unique participants
as Yuille and
Cutshall (1986) who found that eye witnesses were in fact quite accurate and memories
were not reconstructed in the way that Bartlett may claim.

Question 7

Strengths Of War Of Ghosts

Answer 7

May have ecological validity
Bartlett replicated this procedure with other stories and found similar results
Qualitative data was gathered

Question 8

Weaknesses of war of ghosts

Answer 8

Story was unfamiliar - May also lack ecological validity
Lacks a standardised procedure
Unscientific analysis of data