2.1Memory Flashcards
What is introspections
Analysing own conscious mental process
What is encoding
Interpreting incoming information
What is the serial position effect
*Primacy effect - Items of the start of list go into LTM , easy to remember
*recency effect - items at the end go into STM, easy to remember
Items in the middle forgotten
Supporting evidence for multi-store model
HM - impaired LMT, intact STM
KF - impaired STM, intact LTM can’t make new memory
Weakness off multi store model
Ignores level of processing
Components of working memory model
STM
Central executive
Phonological loop
Viso spatial sketch pad
Episodic buffer
Central executive
limited capacity
Coordinates other systems
Phonological loop
Inner ear
Stores acoustic and verbal info
Episodic buffer
Memories and events
Visuo spatial sketchpad
Vision
Limitation if wmm
Doesn’t consider other senses
Strength of wmm
Consider process
Type of LTM
Episodic
Semantic
Episodic memory
Events and experiences
What is semantic memory
General knowledge
Weakness of type of LTM
same area of brain activated so not distinct
Strength of type of ltm
distinct store -amnesic patients impair episodic but less semantic
Components of levels of processing theory
Structural
Acoustic
Semantic
Which component required shallow processing
Structural
Which component required deep processing
Semantic
Strength of level of processing
hardto measure how deep process is measured
Weakness of lvl of processing
no distinct between ltm + stm
forgetting function graph
as time goes on less likely to remember
interefence / retroactive inhibition
new info interferes with old
reconstructed memory
filling in gaps with inaccurate memory
bartlett who read people stories finding, time frame people recalled from
15 mins to 6 years
findings
rationaisation
distortin
fill gaps with schema
loftus and palmer car study
asked eye witness how fast was going when it HIT
changed adjective
2 reasons why we forget
decay
interference
