Memory- Cognitive psychology

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What are the THREE types of memory?
Sensory Memory, Short term memory & Long term memory
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What is SENSORY MEMORY?
Visual& Auditory information (Basically anything we get from our five senses)
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What did PETERSON&PETERSON find?
Ppts given a nonsense trigram could recall up to 80% accurately after 3 seconds
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Which Psychologist studied VERY LONG TERM MEMORY, with photos from ppts yearbooks?
Bahrick et al.
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How long is the DURATION of the STM&LTM?
STM= Seconds and minuets LTM= Hrs, days and years
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What was MILLER's magic number?
7 +/- 2
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Who researched ENCODING in STM?
Baddely
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Who proposed the MULTI-STORE MODEL?
Atkinson&Shiffrin
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How are things transferred to the LTM?
Rehersal
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What are the components of the WORKING MEMORY MODEL?
Central executive, Phonological loop, visuo-spatial sketchpad & episodic buffer
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What is a LIMITATION of the WMM?
The central executive is over simplified and not described well
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What is EWT?
Where a witness is used to provide evidence in court
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What one way can EWT be INACCURATE?
Witnesses are often innacurate
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How many experiments did Loftus&Palmer do involving car crashes?
2
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What TWO factors can influence the ACCURACY of EWT?
Anxiety&Age
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Who investigated children as witnesses?
Parker&Carranza
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Anastasia&Rhodes came up with _________ bias
Own Age
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Give one characteristic of the COGNITIVE INTERVIEW
Report everything
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What was the increase in recall in Khonken's study on the cognitive interview?
34%
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What is the method of LOCI?
Association between things you need to remember and locations
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What is a criticism of Memory improvement strategies?
Only work when remembering a list or order
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