A Level Psychology - Memory

What is coding?

What is Capacity?

What is Duration?

What was Alan Baddeley's experiment?

What did Baddeley find?

What was Jacobs experiment (1887)?

What did Jacob find?

Describe one research procedure for the Duration of memory.

Evaluate Alan Baddeley's study into coding.

Evaluate Jacob's research into capacity

Evaluate Margaret and Peterson's research into duration.

Describe the features of short-term memory (STM)

Describe the features of long-term memory (LTM)

Describe the characteristics making up the sensory register

What is maintenance rehearsal?

What is retrieval?

Name one research supporting the lifetime capacity of the LTM

What is the multi-store model (MSM) ?

Describe research evidence into the MSM.

Describe what Shallice and Warrington (1970) found in their case study of KF, who had amnesia

Endel Tulving viewed the MSM as too simplistic, and proposed that there are actually three LTM stores. What were they?

What is episodic memory?

What is semantic memory?

What is procedural memory?

What did the studies of Henry Molaison (HM) and Clive Wearing show?

What did Tulving's brain scan study show?

What is the working memory model?

What is the central executive?

What is the phonological loop?

What is the visuo-spatial sketchpad?

What is the episodic buffer?

Describe research evidence supporting the WMM.

What did Baddeley's dual task experiment show?

What is interference?

What is positive interference?

What is negative interference?

McGeoch and McDonald studied retroactive interference. Describe how they did this.

What did they find?

Evaluate this study

Explain how Baddeley and Hitch supported this.

What is retrieval failure?

What are cues?

What is the encoding specificity principle? (ESP)

Godden and Baddeley tested this theory in a study. Describe its procedure.

What did they find?

Carter and Cassaday also did an experiment like this, in which ppts were given drugs/or not when learning (internal cues), then recalled in either condition. What did they find?

Evaluate research evidence into the encoding specificity principle (ESP)

What is eye-witness testimony?

What is misleading information?

What is a leading question? Give an example of one

What is post event discussion?

Describe one research procedure that studies 'leading questions'.

What did they find?

What is phenomenon memory conformity? List an experiment in which this is supported

Evaluate research evidence supporting misleading information.

How does anxiety affect recall?

Describe research evidence showing that anxiety has a negative effect on recall.

What did they find?

Describe research evidence showing that anxiety has a positive effect on recall.

What did they find?

Why can such experiments into effects of anxiety produce ethical issues?

Evaluate the tunnel theory in terms of research evidence.

What are the 4 main techniques used in a Cognitive Interview to help the recall of an eyewitness