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What is capacity?

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maximum amaount of information memory can hold

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What is coding

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how memory modifies information so it can be stored

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What is duration?

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length of time a memory stays stored

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Multi-store model (MSM)

Who proposed the multi-store model?

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Atkinson and Shiffrin 1968

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Multi-store model (MSM)

What is the multi store model?

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memory divided into a model of stages information passed through

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Multi-store model (MSM)

What are problems with MSM?

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  • oversimplifies memory
  • no account for different types of things to remember
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Sensory memory

What is sensory memory?

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everything we see, touch and taste

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Sensory memory

What are the stores called in sensory memory?

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Sensory registers

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Sensory memory

What do the sensory registers do?

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holds information gathered from senses for a short time

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Sensory memory

What does multi sensory encoding include?

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  • Iconic - visual
  • Echoic - sound
  • Haptic - touch
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Sensory memory

What is the capacity of sensory memory?

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large

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Sensory memory

How long is information held in sensory memory?

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milliseconds for visual and 2-3 seconds for auditory

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Memory

What are the stores for encoding ?

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  • acoustic - sound
  • visual - appearance
  • semantics - meaning
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Short term memory (STM)

What is the main way of encoding in STM?

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Acoustic

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Short term memory (STM)

Where does evidence of encoding come from?

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Substitution errors

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Short term memory (STM)

What are substitution errors?

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when people substitute information for similar information that needs to be learnt - likely to confuse info

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Long term memory (LTM)

What is long term memory?

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storage of info over a long period of time with potentially unlimited storage

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Long term memory (LTM)

How long does it take for info to be transferred to LTM?

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30 seconds

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Long term memory (LTM)

What is the main encoding for LTM?

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Semantic - meaning

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Long term memory (LTM)

What are the types of LTM?

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Declarative and procedural

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Long term memory (LTM)

What is Procedural memory?

implicit

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unconscious skills that require no conscious thought eg. walking

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Long term memory (LTM)

What is declarative memory?

explicit

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Conscious memory we have for facts and events

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Long term memory (LTM)

What are the 2 types of declarative memory?

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  • semantic
  • episodic
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Long term memory (LTM)

What is semantic memory?

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general knowledge about the world

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Long term memory (LTM)

What is episodic memory?

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experiences and personal recollections of episodes of our lives

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Forgetting

What is interference?

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when one memory disrupts ability to remember another

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Forgetting

What are the 2 types of interference?

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  • proactive
  • retroactive
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Forgetting

What is proactive interference?

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when previously learnt information interferes with new info

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Forgetting

What is retroactive interference?

A

new information interfering with old info

30
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Forgetting

What are the 2 types of forgetting?

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  • context
  • state
31
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Forgetting

What is cue-dependent forgetting?

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retreival failure - memorys stored in LTM but cant be accessed

32
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Forgetting

What was Tulvings retreival failure forgetting theory?

1972

A

We cant access a memory until the right cue is used

33
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Forgetting

What is context dependent forgetting?

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when environment during recall is different to the environment information was learnt

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Forgetting

What is State-dependent forgetting?

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when mood/psychological state is different during recall then when information was learnt

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Central executive WMM

What is the central executive system?

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a poorly nderstood component of wmm said to direct info to slave systems

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Central executive WMM

What is the CE supported by?

A

2 slave systems that work independently to eachother

37
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Central executive WMM

What are the slave systems?

A
  • articulatory phonological loop
  • visuo-spatial sketchpad
38
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Central executive WMM

What is the articulatory phonological loop?

A

holds information regarding words

39
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Central executive WMM

What is the visuo-spatial sketchpad?

A

STM for visual and spatial information

40
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Episodic buffer

What is Episodic buffer?

A

In the working memory model combining information from the other components to make a sensible memory

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Working memory model (WMM)

Who proposed the working memory model?

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Baddeley and Hitch

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Working memory model (WMM)

What is the working memory model?

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description of stm as a system with multiple components

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Working memory model (WMM)

What are the strengths of the WMM?

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  • influential
  • evidential research to support
  • makes sense of a range of tasks
44
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Working memory model (WMM)

What are the weaknesses of the WMM?

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  • doesnt offer complete understanding of how memory works
  • fails to account for musical memory
45
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Eye witness testimony

What is EWT?

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When a victim/witness of something recalls their account of events based upon what they visually remember

46
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Eye witness testimony

Who was Loftus and what did she do?

A

a professor who did extensive research into ewt and its flaws based on external influence

47
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Eye witness testimony

What are the 3 stages of EWT?

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  1. witness encodes details of event into LTM
  2. witness retains information
  3. witness retreives memory from storage
48
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Eye witness testimony

Why are the 3 stages flawed?

A

after a shocking event or an event in gereral memory can quickly become distorted and reconstructed unaccurately

49
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Eye witness testimony

Who led the misleading questions study?

A

Loftus and Palmer

50
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EWT

What is a leading question?

A

a question which encourages a certain answer

51
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Eye witness testimony

What was the misleading questions study?

A

a look into whether asking leading questions alters someones account of the situation post event.

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