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what is sensory memory?
V short term store, holds info in reletavly unprocessed form for less than a second
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How is sensory memory grouped?
Iconic store, Echoic store and Haptic store
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who did research into the sensory memory, and what?
Miller - magic number ±7 and Chunking
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What is 'Cognition'?
the processes of attention, percerption memory, decision making, and language - let us change, store and use information.
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What is 'Encoding'?
The cognitive way information is represented in memory.
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What is 'Semantic memory'?
Meaning based memory
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What did Huang do?
used a recognition test to find out how many of his ex students for over 2 decades he could remember to test LTM. He remembered 80%.
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What did Baddely find in '66
That STM was an acoustic store and LTM was a semantic store.
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Describe a Lab experiment
Controlled environment. Controlled IV.
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describe a Field experiment
Natural environment. Controlled IV.
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describe a Natural experiment
Natural environment. Uncontrolled IV
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What is another word for a Natural Experiment?
A Quasi-experiment
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What is Ecological Validity?
If it resembles or can be generalized to a real life situation.
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What is the IV?
The feature of the experiment that is manipulated/changed
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What is the DV?
The thing that is being measured.
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what does 'Operationalise the IV' meen?
define what, specifically, the IV in the exp. is.
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what does 'Operationalise the DV' meen?
define what, specifically, the DV in the exp. is and how to test it.
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what is internal validity?
how true or real the experiment is.
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what is External Validity?
the extent to which the findings can be applied to real life situations.
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Who invented the MSM and when?
Atkinson and Shiffrin '68
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What are the 5 main points of the MSM?
Structural model, 3 Unitary stores, Liniar Model, Each store Encodes differently, has a different Capacity and different Duration
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why was the MSM critasised?
For being too simple.
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who created the WMM? and when?
Baddeley and Hitch '74
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what are the 4 components of the WMM?
visuo-spatial sketchpad, phonological loop, central executive, episodic buffer
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what does the CE do?
acts as 'main boss', sorts out information into either PL or VSS
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what does the VSS do?
temporary store of visual/spatial info. inner eye.
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what does the PL do?
temporary store of acoustic info (2/3 seconds). inner voice.
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what does the EB do?
waiting room for CE
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what are two main points about the WMM?
slave systems, limited capacity
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what are Schemas?
ready made expectations based on past experiences.
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who discovered that elderly pps. are more likely to be influenced by incorrect info?
Cohen and Falkner
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who discovered that elderly pps. are less reliable in terms of modern tech (film clips)?
Brimacombe
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who discovered that children are more likely to change answer if asked twice?
Samuel + Bryant
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who discovered that children wouldn't correct inaccuracy from an adult (police man)
Roberts + Lamb
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who discovered Weapon Focus?
Loftus et al.
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what is the Yerks-Dodson law?
in Low and High arousal situations performance is poor. In Mid arousal it is best.
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what is 'Leading the Witness'?
when lawyers are accused of getting the witness to say what they want by asking leading questions.
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a study into the effect of leading questions was done by...
Loftus and Palmer
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what did Loftus and Palmer do?
asked about a car accident in different ways that implies different levels of damage to see if it changed awnser.
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how did Carmichael et al. study misleading information? and when?
1932 and they used stimulus pictures and described them in different ways which produced different awnsers.
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Memon, Holliday and Hill found in 2006 that...
positive stereotypes effect childrens judgement but not negative ones.
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