Key studies of Memory 0.0 / 5 ? PsychologyMemoryASAQA Created by: FrankieCreated on: 10-05-15 20:36 Found that short term memory is encoded acoustically Conrad 1 of 17 Found that long term memory is encoded semantically Baddeley 2 of 17 Found that short term memory has a capacity of 7 +/- 2 Simon 3 of 17 Found that the duration of short term memory is between 15 and 30 seconds Peterson and Peterson 4 of 17 Found that the duration of long term memory can be up to a lifetime Bahrick 5 of 17 Suggested the idea of the serial position effect Murdoch 6 of 17 A case study in which he was unable to make new LTM due to brain damage Clive Wearing 7 of 17 A case study in which he was able to recall LTM perfectly but his STM was damaged KF 8 of 17 Found that it is difficult to perform two tasks of the same kind at the same time (two visual tasks for example) Baddeley 9 of 17 Brain scans showed that different parts of the brain were active for different types of activities Cohen 10 of 17 A case study where the removal of a tumour affected ability to make decisions but not the ability to reason EVR 11 of 17 Found that recall is less accurate in the presence of a bloodied knife and more accurate with a greasy pen Loftus 12 of 17 Found that recall of details about a film was more accurate if the film was non-violent, compared to a violent film Loftus and Burns 13 of 17 Found that real witnesses who had been threatened had better recall than witnesses who hadn't Christianson and Hubinette 14 of 17 Found that primary school children were less likely to identify the correct criminal compared to college students Parker and Carranza 15 of 17 Found that people are more accurate when identifying someone of their own age Anastasi and Rhodes 16 of 17 Found that the strength of the verb used impacted the average estimated speed of a vehicle in a car accident Loftus and Palmer 17 of 17
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