Memory

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Coding
Format of how info is stored
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Duration
How long info can be stored for
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Capacity
Amount of info that can be stored
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What are the 2 ways to remember words?
Acoustically and semantically
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What is digit span?
Recalling a list of digits in the correct order
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What is artificial stimuli?
Words have no meaning
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Was the stimuli meaningless in the STM study?
Yes as it doesn't reflect real-life
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What is the multi-store model?
Representation of how memory works in 3 terms called sensory, register, STM and LTM.
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What is sensory register?
The memory stores for each of our 5 senses
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What is iconic store?
Vision
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What is echoic store?
Hearing
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What are the 4 stages of the multi-store model?
Stimulus, sensory register, STM and LTM
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How many items and how long can the STM store?
5-9 items for 30 seconds
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What is episodic memory?
LTM store for personal events
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What is semantic memory?
LTM store for our knowledge of the world
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What is procedural memory?
LTM store for knowledge on how to do things
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What is the working memory model?
Representation if STM suggesting it's a dynamic processor
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What is phonological loop?
Bit of the WMM that processes info in terms of sound and divided into phonological store and the articulatory process
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What is visuo-spatial sketchpad?
Bit of the WMM that processes visual and spatial info in mental space called our 'inner eye'
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What is episodic buffer?
Bit of the WMM that brings things together into a single memory
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What is proactive interference?
When older memories disrupt the recall of newer memories
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What is retroactive inference?
When newer memories disrupt the recall of older memories
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Who studied retroactive interference?
McGeoch and McDonald
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What is a cue?
A 'trigger' of info that allows us to access a memory
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What did Tulving say about encoding specificity principle?
The same cues (can't be different cues) have to be present when encoding and retrieving the info
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What is context-dependent forgetting?
External cues
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What is state-dependent forgetting?
Internal cues
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What was Godden and Baddeley's experiment on forgetting about?
Divers had to learn a list of words underwater or on land and then had to recall on land or underwater
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What was Carter and Cassaday's experiment on forgetting about?
Pps had to learn a list of words and passages of prose either when on a drug or not and then had to recall on a drug or not
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What did Loftus and Palmer experiment regarding eyewitnesses?
They investigated wether leading questions would affect a pps answer
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What can affect a eyewitness?
Misleading questions, leading questions and post-event discussion
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What is a cognitive interview?
A method used to help eyewitnesses retrieve accurate memories
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What are 4 main techniques used in the cognitive interview?
Report everything, reinstate the context, reverse the order and change the perspective
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