Memory mindmap

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  • Memory
    • Coding, capacity & duration
      • LTM
        • semantic coding, capacity & duration of a lifetime
        • Coding: Baddeley - word recall
        • Duration: Bahrick - yearbooks
      • STM
        • acoustic coding, 7+- 2 items, 18-30 secs
        • Coding: Baddeley - word recall
        • Capacity: Jacobs - digit span test
        • Duration: Peterson & Peterson - trigrams
    • Multi-Store Model (MSM)
      • represents how memory works in STM + LTM
    • Tulving's 3 types of LTM
      • Episodic: time-stamped events
      • Semantic: knowledge of world
      • Procedural: actions/skills
    • Working Memory Model (WMM)
      • central executive: allocates tasks to sub-systems
      • phonological loop: processes auditory info
      • visui-spatial sketchpad
      • episodifc buffer: brings all into single memory
    • explanations for forgetting
      • interference
        • When two pieces of information conflict, resulting in forgetting of one or both, or distortion of memory [LTM]
        • McGeoch & McDonald - effects of similarity
      • retrieval failure
        • occurs when we don't have the necessary cues to access memory. it's available, but not accessible unless a cue is provided.
        • Tulving's ESP
        • anti-histamine & deep sea divers
    • Factors affecting eyewitness testimony
      • misleading info
        • leading questions
          • loftus & palmer
        • post-event discussion
          • Gabbert - crime video
      • anxiety
        • negative effect on recall
          • weapons - waiting room
        • positive effect on recall
          • fight-or-flight: shooting in gun shop
    • improving EWT accuracy
      • cognitive interview
        • Reinstate the context Reverse the order     Report everything Change perspective

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