AQA A Level Psychology Quiz - Memory

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What is memory?
The process by which we retain information learnt in the past
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What is the duration of short term memory?
18-30 seconds
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Who investigated the duration of short term memory and what did they use to assess?
Peterson and Peterson, three-word trigrams
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What is the capacity of the STM?
5-9 items
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What is chunking?
Making items meaningful, so they relate to existing items in the LTM (e.g. acronyms)
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How is the LTM coded?
Semantically
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Who investigated coding in the LTM and the STM?
Baddeley
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Who created the Multi Store Model of memory?
Atkinson and Shiffrin
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What is needed in order to keep information in the STM?
Maintenance rehearsal
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What is the coding for the sensory store/register?
Sense specific (echoic/iconic)
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Who are the two case studies that support the MSM?
Clive Wearing and KF
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Who suggested that there was different types of LTM?
Tulving
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What is semantic memory?
Memory for facts and knowledge, time stamped, is taught and requires conscious recall
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Other than the two case studies, what is used to evaluate the types of LTM?
Neuroimaging/brain scans
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Why did Baddeley and Hitch propose the working memory model?
Research showed that there was more than one type of STM
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What are the two slave systems?
The phonological loop, visuospatial sketchpad
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What are the two subdivisions of the visuospatial sketchpad?
Inner scribe, visual cache
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What is another name for the phonological store?
Inner ear
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What did KF have trouble processing after a motorbike accident which impaired his STM?
Verbal information
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What are the two types of interference?
Reactive and proactive
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Who provided supporting evidence for the types of interference with lab experiments?
McGeoch and McDonald
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Other than interference, what is the other explanation of forgetting?
Retrieval failure
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What principle did Tulving propose?
Encoding specificity principle
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What type of profession did the participants in Godden and Baddeley's have?
Divers
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Who gave participants antihistamines in order to assess the impact of cues?
Carter and Cassaday
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What verb provoked the highest judged speed in Loftus and Palmer's study assessing eye witness testimony?
Smashed
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Who investigated the effects of post-event discussion?
Gabbert et Al
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In Loftus' weapon focus effect research, what percentage of accuracy did the participants describe the man in the first condition (man holding pen)?
49%
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Yuille and Cutshall did research on real life witnesses to an armed robbery in Canada, what did they find? (evaluation to criticise WFE)
Higher levels of stress, meant they were more accurate
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Why isn't the cognitive interview fully effective?
It doesn't eliminate the errors in witness recall
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