cognitive studies Flashcards
We tend to forget information in the middle of a sequence.
primacy/recency effect, a study made by Glanzer and Cunitz
Retelling story, turning out differently than the original.
War of the Ghosts, a Native American story - unusual to western people.
Study made by Frederic Barlett.
Difficult for wester people to retell.
Due to schemas we interpret the story differently, changing it to make it make sense.
We do not remeber everything, the story was shorthened.
Story remained coherent in all versions.
New memory model based on multi-store model.
Working memory model.
Made by Hitch and Baddeley.
Challenged the idea that STM was a single store.
STM had different components: central executive, the episodic buffer, phonological loop and visuospatoal sketchpad.
Sigmund Freud
Forgetting is caused by repression.
False memories can be created with post event information.
Loftus and Palmer study of relability of eye witness testimony.
Found out that the way a question is phrazed can alter memories, due to the schemas we have.
Participants watched a car crash.
Words like “smashed” and “collided” , the mean estimation increased (of the cars’ speed).
