Chapter 2 - Memory - Keywords - Flashcards in A Level and IB Psychology

1. AMethod of interviewing eyewitnesses to help retrieve more accurate memories. Uses four main techniques based on psychological principles of human memory - report everything, reinstate the context, reverse the order and change perspective (9, 9, 2)
3. The format in which information is stored in the various memory stores (6)
5. The length of time information can be held in memory (8)
10. A form of forgetting. It occurs when we done have the necessary cues to access memory. The memory is available but not accessible unless a suitable cue is provided (9, 7)

2. A long term memory store for personal events. It includes memories of when events occurred and of people, objects and behaviours involved. Memories from this store have to be retrieved consciously and with effort (8, 6)
3. Trigger of information allowing access to a memory. Cues may be meaningful or may be indirectly linked due to encoding at time of learning. For example, cues may be external (environmental context) or internal (mood or degree of drunkness) (3)
4. The component of the WMM that brings together material from the other sub-systems into a single memory rather than separate strands. It also provides a bridge betweem working memory and long term memory (8, 6)
7. The amount of information that can be held in memory (8)
8. Forgetting because one memory blocks another cauing both or one memory to become distorted or forgotten (12)
9. Memory stores for each of our five senses e.g. vision (iconic store) and hearing (echoic store). Coding in the iconic sensory register is visual and in echoic, acoustic storage. Capacity of the sensory registers is huge but duration is small (1/2 s) (7, 8)

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