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What does the MSM state about the capacity of LTM and duration of memories?

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LTM has unlimited capacity and memories have duration potentially for a lifetime

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Interference

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One memory interfering with another

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What may interference result in?

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Completely forgetting something or one thing being distorted

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Proactive interference

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New information is being interfered with by previously learnt information

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Example of proactive information

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You get a new phone number, but you have difficulties reciting it because your old number keeps on interfering with it

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Retroactive interference

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Old information is being interfered with by new information. New information ‘overwrites’ previously learnt information

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Example of retroactive interference

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You get a new phone number but when you are asked to recite your old number, you have difficulties because the new number keeps on interfering with it

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Who conducted research into interference in 1995?

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Howe

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Participants of Howe’s study

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4-6 year old children

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What were children given to learn in the control condition of Howe’s research?

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8 pictures

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What did children have to learn in the experiment condition of Howe’s research?

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They had to learn two picture lists, one after the other

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What were children in the control group asked to recall after 24 hours in Howe’s research?

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Items from the picture lists they had learnt

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What were the individual experimental groups asked to recall after 24 hours in Howe’s research?

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Half of the experimental group asked to recall items from first picture list only
Half of the experimental group asked to recall items from both picture lists

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What experimental design did Howe use?

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Individual groups

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Why did Howe chose picture lists instead of word lists?

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Because the age of participants meant that some children may not of been able to read

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Results of Howe’s study

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Participants who learned both lists experienced interference during storage of lists which resulted in unlearning of first picture list they saw

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What type of interference was demonstrated in Howe’s research?

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Retroactive interference

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What is a natural experiment an example of?

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A research method

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What are independent groups an example of?

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An experimental design

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What must be included in a ‘write a hypothesis’ exam question?

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Independent variable (s)
Dependent variable (s)

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Who carried out research into interference in 1997?

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Baddeley and Hitch

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What was the aim of Baddeley and Hitch’s research into interference?

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To investigate interference theory/effects in an everyday setting

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What setting was used in Baddeley and Hitch’s research into interference?

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An everyday setting of rugby players

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What were the rugby players told to recall in Baddeley and Hitch’s research into interference?

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Recall the names of the teams they had played over a rugby season

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How many games did the rugby players play over the season in Baddeley and Hitch’s research into interference?

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Some players played in all games in the season and others missed out on some due to injury

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Time interval for all players in Baddeley and Hitch’s research into interference?

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Time interval from start to end of season same for all players

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What would the results be like in Baddeley and Hitch’s research into interference if the decay theory was correct?

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All players would recall similar percentage of games played as time is the only factor to cause forgetting

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What would the results be like in Baddeley and Hitch’s research into interference if the interference theory was correct?

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Players who played most games would forget more due to interference

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Why was Baddeley and Hitch’s research into interference a natural experiment?

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Because the IV couldn’t be controlled

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Results of Baddeley and Hitch’s research into interference

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The greater number of intervening games played, the lower tje percentage of team names recalled correctly

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What theory do the results of Baddeley and Hitch’s research into interference support?

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The interference theory as the players who played more games forgot the most amount of games

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Positive evaluation of proactive and retroactive interference: research

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Supports explanations for forgetting

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Positive evaluation of proactive and retroactive interference: Howe’s research

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Lab experiment meaning conditions are controlled so extraneous variables won’t effect the findings

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Positive evaluation of proactive and retroactive interference: Baddeley and Hitch’s research

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Natural experiment shows interference can be an explanation for forgetting as the ecological validity is high

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Negative evaluation of proactive and retroactive interference: Howe’s research

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Lab experiment meaning results may lack ecological validity which will not be representative of how we forget in everyday life

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Negative evaluation of proactive and retroactive interference: Baddeley and Hitch’s research

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Natural experiment means extraneous variables cannot be controlled so results may not be highly reliable

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Why are cues needed for retrieval of some information?

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Because the information is present in the LTM but cannot be retrieved without cue

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Example of use of cues (teacher)

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Teacher who can’t remember someone’s name will ask for the first letter of it (cue) in order to remember it

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Two types of cues

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External cues
Internal cues

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Where are external cues? With example

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In the environment such as a smell

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What are internal cues? With example

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Cues inside of us like an emotion or mental state

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Who carried out a study into context-dependent forgetting?

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Godden and Baddeley

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What did Godden and Baddeley investigate in their study of context-dependent forgetting?

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The effect of the environment on recall

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Where did Godden and Baddeley’s study of context-dependent forgetting take place?

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Scotland

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What participants were used in Godden and Baddeley’s study of context-dependent forgetting?

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18 divers from a diving club

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What were the divers asked to learn in Godden and Baddeley’s study of context-dependent forgetting?

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Lists of 36 unrelated words of two or three syllables

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4 conditions in Godden and Baddeley’s study of context-dependent forgetting

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Learn on beach recall on beach
Learn on beach recall underwater
Learn underwater recall on beach
Learn underwater recall underwater

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Mean recall score for participants who leant and recalled on beach in Godden and Baddeley’s study of context-dependent forgetting

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13.5/36

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Mean recall score of participants who leant on the beach and recalled underwater in Godden and Baddeley’s study of context-dependent forgetting

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8.6/36

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Mean recall score who participants who learnt underwater and recalled on the beach in Godden and Baddeley’s study of context-dependent forgetting

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8.5/36

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Mean recall score for participants who learnt underwater and recalled underwater in Godden and Baddeley’s study of context-dependent forgetting

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11.4/36

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What did results of Godden and Baddeley’s study of context-dependent forgetting show?

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Context acted as a cue to recall as participants recalled more words when they learnt and recalled words in same environment

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What theory does Godden and Baddeley’s study of context-dependent forgetting support?

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Theory of context acting as a recall cue

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When were the recall results the worst in Godden and Baddeley’s study of context-dependent forgetting?

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When there was a change in context

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Why do findings of Godden and Baddeley’s study of context-dependent forgetting have to be treated with caution?

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Because they don’t tell us how other people (people who aren’t divers) respond

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Research method used in Godden and Baddeley’s study of context-dependent forgetting

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Field experiment

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Experimental design in Godden and Baddeley’s study of context-dependent forgetting

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Independent groups

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Extraneous variables in Godden and Baddeley’s study of context-dependent forgetting

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Possible rough weather may distress divers when they were underwater which would take their focus away fro cue/word list

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What did Abernathy find about the influence of contextual cues in a study into exam results?

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Found that students performed better in tests if they took place in same room as they learnt the informstion

60
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When does state-dependent forgetting occur?

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When your mood or physiological state during recall is different from your mood or physiological state when you were learning

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Who carried out research into state-dependent forgetting?

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Goodwin

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Participants of Goodwin’s study into state-dependent forgetting

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48 male medical students

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What did the participants in Goodwin’s study into state-dependent forgetting do on day 1 and day 2 of the study?

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Day 1 they did a training session
Day 2 they went through testing

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4 groups participants were randomly assigned to in Goodwin’s study into state-dependent forgetting

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Sober on both days
Intoxicated on both days
Intoxicated day 1 sober day 2
Sober day 1 intoxicated day 2

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How much alcohol did each intoxicated participant hand in their blood?

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100ml

66
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How many tests did participants have to perform in Goodwin’s study into state-dependent forgetting?

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4

67
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Which groups performed the worst in Goodwin’s study into state-dependent forgetting?

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Intoxicated on day 1 sober on day 2
Sober on day 1 intoxicated on day 2

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What group performed the best in Goodwin’s study into state-dependent forgetting?

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Sober on both days group

69
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What group performed better than the group with changes of state in Goodwin’s study into state-dependent forgetting?

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Intoxicated on both days group

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How does Goodwin’s study into state-dependent forgetting support the stat-dependent memory theory?

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Because performance was the best if participants were in the same state on both days

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Research method used in Goodwin’s study into state-dependent forgetting

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Lab experiment

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Experimental design used in Goodwin’s study into state-dependent forgetting

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Independent groups

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Why were individual differences likely to be avoided on Goodwin’s study into state-dependent forgetting? (Positive evaluation)

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Participants were randomly assigned to each condition

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Why was there a beta-bias in Goodwin’s study into state-dependent forgetting? (Negative evaluation)

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Because the sample minimised any potential differences between males and females as the sample was only made up of males

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