Memory flashcards
What is reductionism?
When we break behaviour down into individual parts and try to explain it
What is holism?
Explaining something as a whole
What is retrograde amnesia?
Loss of memories prior to the incident
Can be caused by damage to frontal lobe
What is anterograde amnesia?
Unable to form new memories as memory can’t pass through the hippocampus
What is amnesia?
A condition characterised by memory loss
What is Bartlett’s theory of reconstructive memory?
Memory isn’t stored how they happen
Gaps in our memory are filled with existing schemas
Omission- leave out
Transformation- Change to make memory more familiar
Familiarisation- Change to align with schemas
Rationalisation- Adding details
What was Bartlett’s war of the ghosts study?
To see how schemas affect our memory
Participants read then repeated 15-30 minutes later
Participants rationalised
Strengths and weaknesses of Bartlett
+Bartlett replicated with other stories
-Story is strange and unfamiliar
What is primary data?
Data collected by researcher themselves
What is secondary data?
Data previously collected for another purpose
What is the multi store model of memory?
Sensory register then STM then LTM
What is duration?
How long memory is held in each store
What is capacity?
How much information can be held in each store
Explain Peterson and Peterson
To test duration of STM
Participants given trigrams and asked to count back
Longer they had to count back, the less they remembered
35 80% remembered, 18 seconds <10% remembered
