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6. What is proactive interference

  • Interference caused by external stimuli e.g/ a loud sound
  • When concious processes such as speech interfere with the recall of information
  • The tendency for previously learned recall to disrupt the recall of new information
  • The tendency for new information to disrupt the recall of previously learned information

7. What is eyewitness transference?

  • There is no familiarity and no memory of a face
  • A failure to encode faces
  • The face is familiar, but the situation remembered in is incorrect
  • There is familiarity of a face but no real memory

8. What is the serial position effect?

  • It is hardest to recall items from the middle of the list, due to primacy and recency effects
  • Items with a longer digit length are hardest to recall from a list due to the capacity of STM
  • It is easier to recall info at the start as first items are studied the most
  • It is easier to recall items from the end as they were last studied

9. Which tasks did amnesiac pps perform best at?

  • Implicit memory tasks, at a similar level to the controls
  • Explicit memory tasks
  • Free recall tasks
  • Recognition

10. What did the case study of HM show?

  • Different brain regions are important for memory, of which there are different types
  • That STM and LTM can be damaged independently
  • Evidence for retrograde amnesia
  • Evidence for anterograde amnesia

11. What are the two types of LTM?

  • Explicit memory (factual knowledge + personal exp.) and Implicit memory (Long term memories of conditioned responses+learned skills
  • Episodic memory (impersonal facts and everyday knowledge), Semantic memory (Personal experiences linked with specific times and places)
  • Explicit memory (Long term memories of conditioned responses and learned skills), Implicit memory (factual knowledge and personal experiences)
  • Semantic memory (impersonal facts and everyday knowledge), Episodic memory (Personal experiences linked with specific times and places)