Memory

Question 1

Interference

Answer 1

Memories disrupting each other

Question 2

2 types of interference

Answer 2

Pro- active= past memory affecting a new one
Retro- active= new memory affecting a past one

Question 3

Interference A03

Answer 3

Weakness- Artificial Research
Strength- Real world study- Baddeley and Hitch
Weakness- Not only explanation

Question 4

Retrieval Forgetting

Answer 4

Unable to retrieve memory

Question 5

Encoding Specificity principle

Answer 5

Tulving and Pearlstone- 48 items from 12 categories, 50% cues 50% no cues, 60%/40%

Question 6

Context-Depending Forgetting

Answer 6

Ethel Abernethy (1940)- teacher and room specific

Question 7

State depending forgetting

Answer 7

Goodwin et al (1969)- 50% group drunk, 50% group sober- recall list 24 hours later either same or different state

Question 8

Retrieval A03

Answer 8

Strength- Research support
Weakness- Retrieval cues don’t always work
Strength- Real world application- smith think of room

Question 9

Duration of memory

Answer 9

STM- 10-20 seconds
LTM- Up to a lifetime

Question 10

Capacity of memory

Answer 10

STM- 7+- 2 chunks of information
LTM- Potentially the unlimited

Question 11

How memory is encoded

Answer 11

STM- Acoustically
LTM- Semantically
Badeley (1966)

Question 12

Capacity of STM: study

Answer 12

Jacob’s (1887)
1 digit to repeat back, add 1 digit to each time.
Average=9.3 digits, 7.3 letters

Question 13

Duration of STM- study

Answer 13

Peterson and Peterson 1959

Question 14

Duraton of LTM- Study

Answer 14

Bahrick, lifetime

Question 15

EWT study

Answer 15

Loftus and Palmer, car crash leading words

Question 16

EWT Yerkes dodson law

Answer 16

anxiety aids recall to a certain extent

Question 17

Cognitive interview order

Answer 17

Report everything
Reinstate context
Reverse the order
Change perspective