Memory

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How do Psychologists define memory
The Process of encoding, storing and retrieving infomation.
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Name 3 forms of Encoding
Visual, Acoustic and Semantic
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What are the 3 aspects of storage
Capacity, Duration and Coding
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Name the 3 main types of retrieval
Recognition, Recall and Relearn
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What is short term memory?
Limited capacity 7(+/-2), short 30 seconds and mainly acoustic.
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What is long term memory?
Infinite capacity, no limit, acoustic, visual and semantic.
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Define the Multi-store model
the theory of memory that suggests information passes through a series of stores.
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What is the serial position effect ?
Where people were given a list of randomised words to remember.
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Recency Effect
Remember words at the end of the list as it is still in STM.
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Primacy Effect
Remember words at the beginning of a list because of rehearsal.
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Reconstructive model of memory
Sugests what we recall from LTM is not an accurate representation of what happened.
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Aim of Bartletts war on ghosts
To use a story from a different culture to see how cultural expectations affect memory.
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What is Serial Reproduction?
where someone recalls a bit of information before reproducing it to another who will then reproduce it to someone else.
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War of Ghosts results
Story was shortened, cultural phrases were changed and the recalled version became fixed.
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