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Cowan (2001)

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STM is limited to 4 chunks.

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Vogel et al. (2001)

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STM for visual stimuli limited to 4 items.

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Simon (1974)

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Size of chunks affects how many can be remembered.

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Jacobs (1887)

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Digit span test, it is easier to recall digits than letters
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Recall improves with age.

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Reitman (1974)

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Peterson and Peterson (1959) actually found evidence for displacement, not decay.

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Nairne et al. (1999)

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Items can be remembered in STM for 96 seconds.

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Brandimote et al. (1992)

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Encoding for STM can also be visual.

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Wickens et al. (1976)

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Encoding for STM can also be semantic.

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Frost (1972)

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Encoding for LTM can also be visual.

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Nelson and Rothbart (1972)

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Encoding for LTM can also be acoustic.

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Miller (1956)

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7 +/- 2 is the magic number of items that can be recalled in STM.

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Peterson and Peterson (1959)

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Trigram experiment (THX 512, for example): Recall was 90% accurate after 3 seconds but only 2% after 18 seconds.

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Bahrick et al. (1975)

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Photo memory test. LTM decreases over time.

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Baddeley (1966)

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STM is mainly encoded acoustically whilst LTM is mainly encoded semantically.

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Beardsley (1997)

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The prefrontal cortex is active during STM.

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Squire et al. (1992)

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The hippocampus is active during LTM.

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Scoville and Milner (1957) [case study of HM]

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HM had his hippocampus removed and could not form new LTMs.

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Craik and Lockhart (1972)

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Deep processing is more important than maintenance rehearsal for forming lasting memories.

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Craik and Tulving (1975)

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Participants remember nouns better when they have to fit them into sentences (deep processing).

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Logie (1999)

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STM relies on LTM and therefore cannot come before it in the MSM.

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Ruchkin et al. (2003)

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Brain scans showed that LTM is used for STM tasks as Logie (1999) had said it would.

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22
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Hitch and Baddeley (1976)

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Dual task performance supports the WMM.

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Shallice and Warrington (1970) [case study of KF]

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KF lost STM for auditory but not visual information.

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Trojano and Grossi (1995) [case study of SC]

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SC was fine apart from being unable to learn word pairs out loud.

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Farah et al. (1988) [case study of LH]

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LH performed better on spatial tasks than visual imagery tasks.

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Eslinger and Damasio (1985) [case study of EVR]

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EVR performed well at reasoning tasks but not decision making, showing that there may not be a singular Central executive.

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Baddeley et al. (1975)

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Phonological loop can only hold 2 seconds-worth of information.

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Corkin (2002) [case study of HM]

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HM could learn new procedural LTMs but not episodic or semantic LTMs.

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Hodges and Patterson (2007)
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Irish et al. (2011)

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Some Alzheimer’s patients can form new episodic LTMs but not semantic LTMs.
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Some Alzheimer’s patients can form new semantic LTMs but not episodic LTMs.

30
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Spiers et al. (2001)

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Amnesiac patients lost episodic and semantic LTMs but retained their procedural LTMs and the perceptual-representation system (PRS) that allows for ‘priming’.

31
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Müller and Pilzeccker (1900)

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First study to find retroactive interference.

32
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Underwood (1957)

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Found proactive interference.

33
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McGeoch and McDonald (1931)

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The more similar the materials, the more interference.

34
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Baddeley and Hitch (1977)

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Rugby players study: the more games played, the more interference and thus less recall.

35
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Anderson (2000)

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Interference is uncommon and an unimportant explanation of forgetting.

36
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Ceraso (1967)

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Recognition (but not recall) makes a spontaneous recovery after 24 hours and so memories interfered with are just unavailable not lost.

37
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Danaher et al. (2008)

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Interference is common when similar brands are advertised to people in a short space of time.

38
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Kane and Engle (2000)

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People with greater working memory are less affected by proactive interference.

39
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Tulving and Thomson (1973)

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Encoding specificity principle: memory is most effective if information at the time of encoding is present at the time of retrieval.

40
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Tulving and Pearlstone (1966)

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It is easier to remember words if the category is given (acting as a cue).

41
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Abernethy (1940)

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Tests are easier if the room is the room you learnt the material in.

42
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Godden and Baddelely (1975)

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Scuba divers study: if the location (context) is the same at the time of encoding and retrieval then retrieval is more effective.

43
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Goodwin et al. (1969)

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Drunk study: learning words drunk or sober makes it easier to to retrieve them drunk or sober respectively.

44
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Smith (1979)

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Thinking of the room the learnt the material in is enough to help you remember it.

45
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Smith and Vela (2001)

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Context effects are eliminated when learning meaningful information.

46
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Nairne (2002)

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Relationship between cues and retrieval is correlational not necessarily causal.

47
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Baddeley (1997)

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Encoding specificity principle is circular.

48
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Tulving and Psotka (1971)

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Cues eliminate interference effects.

49
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Gabbert et al. (2003)

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Post event discussion and conformity effects reduce accuracy of eye-witness testimony (EWT).

50
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LaRooy et al. (2005)

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Repeat interviewing is especially damaging for the EWT of children.

51
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Braun et al. (2002)

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Seeing a cut-out of Bugs Bunny made participants more likely to report shaking hands with him at Disneyland. Bugs is not Disney and so this could not be true.

52
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Foster et al. (1994)

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Testimony is more accurate if witnesses think what they are witnessing is real.

53
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Yuille and Cutshall (1986)

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Real-life eye-witnesses in Canada were very accurate despite being fed misleading information.

54
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Wells and Olson (2003)

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DNA exoneration has revealed that many people have been falsely convicted due to inaccurate EWT.

55
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Schatcher et al. (1991)

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Older people are more susceptible to misleading information.

56
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Berkerian and Bowers (1983)

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Response bias may account for apparent effects of misleading information on EWT.

57
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Loftus et al. (1987)

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Anxiety focuses attention on central features of a crime.

58
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Christianson and Hubinette (1993)

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The most anxious witnesses (victims) had the best recall of all witnesses.

59
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Christianson (1992)

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Memory for negative emotional events is better than for neutral events.

60
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Deffenbacher (1983)

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Yerkes-Dodson effect accounts for mixed research findings into anxiety. There is an optimal stress level.

61
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Pickel (1998)

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Surprise is more important than anxiety for weapon focus. The higher the surprise, the lower the recall.

62
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Halford and Milne (2005)

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Victims of violent crimes have better recall than victims of non-violent crimes.

63
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Bothwell et al. (1987)

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Neurotics show falling accuracy as stress increases whereas stable witnesses show an increase in accuracy in these conditions.

64
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Fazey and Hardy (1988)

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Catastrophe theory: after an optimum point, increased physiological arousal results in catastrophic performance and memory failure.

65
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Geiselman et al. (1984)

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Developed the cognitive interview (CI).

66
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Köhnken et al. (1999)

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CI results in an average increase in the amount of correct information by 34%.
This was a 80% increase in correct information but also a 60% increase in incorrect information.

67
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Milne and Bull (2002)

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The ‘report everything’ and ‘mental reinstatement’ components of the CI result in significantly higher recall.

68
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Kebbell and Wagstaff (1996)

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CI requires more training and more time than standard interview. Most police forces that do use the CI only use 1 or 2 components such as the ‘mental reinstatement’ and the ‘report everything’ component.

69
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Mello and Fisher (1996)

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The benefits of the CI are greater for older witnesses.

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