A Level Psychology key terminology (Memory)

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Duration
How long the information is stored in the memory for.
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Capacity
How much information can be stored in the memory.
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Encoding
How the information enters the memory store.
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Acoustic encoding
When sound information enters through an auditory stimuli.
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Semantic encoding
When information enters the LTM through personal experiences/ specific meaning.
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Amnesia
It's a clinical condition that involves memory problems.
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Chunking
When similar information/ digits together into larger units, which increases the STM.
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Sensory register
Where information collected from the 5 sense is stored in the memory store that lasts no more than a few seconds.
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Central executive
Is a dynamic system that's responsible for the control and regulation of information entering the slave systems of the WMM.
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Phonological loop
It's a part of the working memory model that sound information enters the STM.
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Articulatory process
It's a part of the phonological loop, which is a part of the WMM, that repeats sounds or words in the working memory until they're needed.
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Phonological store
It's a part of the phonological loop, which is a part of the WMM, that repeats sounds or words in the working memory until they're needed.
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Visuo-spatial sketchpad
It's the part of the WMM that deals with visual and spatial information and helps with navigation.
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Episodic buffer
It's a part of the WMM that is a temporary store that combines information from the other slave systems and joins those components to the LTM.
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Cognitive interview
An interview technique that's devised to improve the accuracy of witness recall.
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Cue-dependant forgetting
When information isn't recalled due to a lack of triggers.
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State-dependant forgetting
When information is forgotten due to the emotional/ physical state of recall isn't the same than at the time of learning.
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Interference theory
The theory that memory can be disrupted by not just previous learning but information learnt in the future.
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Leading questions
When questions are phrased in a particular way that prompts the witness to give a particular answer.
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Multi-store model
An explanation that describes how information flows through different stores to enter the LTM.
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Post-event discussion
A potential source of misleading information where witnesses discuss what they saw after the event occurred.
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Proactive interference
A cause of forgetting where previously stored information prevents remembering/ learning new information.
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Retroactive interference
Where new information is learnt and affects the recall of previously learnt information.
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How much information can be stored in the memory.

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Capacity

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How the information enters the memory store.

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When sound information enters through an auditory stimuli.

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When information enters the LTM through personal experiences/ specific meaning.

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