Memory Flashcards

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Show the multi store model of memory

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recall
--Sensory--------STM--------------LTM
     store                 |      rehearsal
                              |
                          forget
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Describe levels of processing

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Look|Structural Processing|shallowest 
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Sound|Phonetic processing|medium
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Meaning|semantic processing|deepist
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What is reconstructive memory

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Altering our recollection of things so they make sense to us

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What is retroactive interference

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Info we recently learnt hinders our ability to recall info learnt previously

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What is proactive interference

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When info we already learnt hinders our ability to recall new info

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What is anterograde amnesia

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Being unable to learn new info after suffering brain damage

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What is retrograde amnesia

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Loss of memory for events that happened before brain damage occurred

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What is loftus and palmers study

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Leading questions affect, shown films of car accidents, some were asked how fast when it hit and some asked smashed, participants that heard smashed gave a higher speed estimate, leading questions reduce the accuracy of recall

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What is bruce and youngs study

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To see if familiarity affects accuracy of identifying faces, lecturers were on cctv at start of building, partic were asked to identify the faces on cctv, the lecturers students made more correct identifications that other students and police, previous familiarity helps identifying faces

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What is a cognitive interview

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A method of questioning witnesses that involves recreating the context of an event

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A study for context

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Participants were deep sea divers, divided into 4 groups, they had the same words to learn, 2 groups learnt in the same environment and recalled, and the other 2 learnt in one environment and recalled in another

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A study for interference

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Participants were split in 2 groups, 1 were asked to learn some word pairs, then a second list of word pairs, 2 were asked to learn the first word pairs only, both recalled, 2s memory of the first list was better than 1

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Study of reconstructive memory

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Participants read a story, later they were asked to retell the story as accurately as possible, the retelling was repeated several times over the next few weeks, they changed parts of the story that made more sense to them, each time they retold, the changed a bit more

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A study for levels of processing

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Participants were showed a list of words, one at a time and had to answer yes or no, some needed structural processing, others needed phonetic and others semantic, they were given a longer list and had to identify the words they answered questions about, they remembered 70% semantic, 35% phonetic and 15% that were structural

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What’s a study for the multi-store memory

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Participants had to learn words, 2secs each, and then recalled the words in any order, the ones at the end and beginning were recalled the best, the ones in the middle were recalled worst, this provides evidence for short term and long term memory

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What’s the recency effect

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The last words/ the words at the end

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What’s the primacy effect

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The first words/ the words at the start

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What is semantics processing

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It’s the meaning, it’s in the deepest

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What’s phonetic processing

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The sound of the word, it’s in the medium deepist

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What’s structural processing

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It’s how the word looks, it’s in the shallowest

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Describe the flow of information in memory

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Encoding
Storage
Retrieval