EVALUATION PAPER 1

Question 1

L2 MEMORY: Multi-store model of memory

Answer 1

• KF
• HM
• Baddeley

Question 2

L3 MEMORY: Types of LTM

Answer 2

• Clive Wearing
• Case study
• Tulving (brain scans)

Question 3

L4 MEMORY: Working Memory Model

Answer 3

• KF
• Braver et al (brain scans)
• Baddeley et al (dual-task performance)

Question 4

L5 MEMORY: Retrieval failure

Answer 4

• Baddeley and Hitch (rugby)
• Lab studies (high control)
• Lab studies (low mundane realism)

Question 5

L6 MEMORY: Interference theory

Answer 5

• Carter and Cassady, Godden and Baddeley
• Locations need to be completely different
• EWT can be improved in the CI

Question 6

L7 MEMORY: Misleading information

Answer 6

• Loftus and Palmer and Gabbert et al
• Low mundane realism
• Older people are less accurate than younger people so tell us little

Question 7

L8 MEMORY: Anxiety

Answer 7

• Johnson and Scott and Christianson and Hubinette
• Pickel (surprise)
• Unethical to create anxiety in ppts

Question 8

L9 MEMORY: Cognitive Interview

Answer 8

• RWA (effective for police)
• Kohnken et al
• Time consuming (enhanced CI)

Question 9

L1 SOCIAL INFLUENCE: Asch

Answer 9

• McCarthyism
• Ethical issues
• Only used male American volunteers

Question 10

L2 SOCIAL INFLUENCE: Types and explanations of conformity

Answer 10

• Asch post interviews supports NSI
• More appropriate to consider NSI and ISI together
• NSI doesn’t affect people who don’t care about social approval.

Question 11

L3 SOCIAL INFLUENCE: Zimbardo

Answer 11

• Zimbardo’s dual role
• Abu Gharib (situational factors)
• Richer and Haslam (BBC Prison Study; social identity theory)

Question 12

L4 SOCIAL INFLUENCE: Milgram

Answer 12

• Unethical (negative inducements)
• La Jeu de la Mort (80% gave maximum shock levels)
• Hofling: 21/22 nurses obeyed unjustified demands from doctors

Question 13

L4 SOCIAL INFLUENCE: Milgram’s variations

Answer 13

• Systematically altered one variable at a time
• Bickman (NYC security 2x obeyed)
• RWA (excuses the Nazi’s behaviour)

Question 14

L5 SOCIAL INFLUENCE: Social-psychological explanations of obedience

Answer 14

• Abu Gharib
• RWA (implications for legal systems)
• Film of Milgram - researcher at fault due to legitimacy authority

Question 15

L6 SOCIAL INFLUENCE: Dispositional explanations of obedience

Answer 15

• Elms and Milgram
• Correlations
• Flawed methodology (acquiesces in that f-scale only measures tendency to agree with everything)