Memory Overview
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- Created on: 08-03-14 15:08
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- Memory
- Models
- Multi-Store Model
- One way (Linear) flow of information
- STM
- Encoding mainly acoustic
- Capacity - very limited 7+/- 2
- Duration - about 20 seconds
- LTM
- Encoding mainly semantic
- Capacity - unlimited
- Duration - up to a lifetime
- Evaluation
- POSITIVE
- Support from clinical case studies and lab experiment
- NEGATIVE
- Too simplistic - stores not unitary and information flow not linear
- POSITIVE
- Working Memory Model
- Evidence to support existence of visuo-spatial and phonological loop
- NEGATIVE
- Capacity of central not quantified
- No clear explanation of how the central executive works
- POSITIVE
- Demonstrates that STM has more than one component
- Explains how we can carry out more than one cognitive task at a time
- Multi-Store Model
- Inaccurate EWT
- Anxiety of witness in lab studies
- Schemas
- Age
- Children give less complete testimony
- Children more susceptible to misleading information
- Misleading information
- Distorts memory for witnessed event
- Is original memory diluted or obscured?
- Leading questions - subtle effects
- Accurate EWT
- Anxiety of witness in real-life situations
- Serious consequences of testimony
- Blatantly inaccurate misinformation
- Cognitive Interviews
- recreate context
- report all details
- recall events in different order
- change perspective
- Models
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