Paper 1 : Memory

Question 1

Bahrick

Answer 1

Showed long term memory duration is unlimited, photo recognition of classmates

Question 2

Baddeley

Answer 2

Short term is coded acoustically and long term is coded semantically

Question 3

Miller

Answer 3

Capacity of short term memory is 7 +-2 items and capacity of LTM is infinite

Question 4

Petersen et al

Answer 4

Short term memory duration is 18-30 seconds

Question 5

Clive wearing

Answer 5

Could make new short term but not long term

Question 6

Patient KF

Answer 6

Couldn’t make audio stm but could make visual

Question 7

Patient HM

Answer 7

Could make new procedural memories but not episodic or semantic

Question 8

Glanzer and Cunitz

Answer 8

People more likely to remember words at beginning of the list rather than at the end

Question 9

Baddeley experiment

Answer 9

Dual task technique, found we can do 1 visual and 1 verbal but not 2 visual

Question 10

Godden and Baddeley

Answer 10

Participants learnt words on ground or underwater and was tested either on land or underwater

Question 11

Goodwin

Answer 11

Tested drunk or sober

Question 12

Loftus and Palmer

Answer 12

Altered verb they used whilst questioning participants on a car crash. 41mph for smashed and 32mph for contacted

Question 13

Yuille and cutshall

Answer 13

Asked leading questions on real life armed robbery, didn’t affect outcome

Question 14

Gabbert

Answer 14

Showed 2 videos of same event, allowed to discuss, 71% said they saw something they didn’t see

Question 15

Johnson and Scott

Answer 15

33% of participants identified man if he was carrying a knife but 47% could if he was carrying a pen

Question 16

Christianson and Hubiette

Answer 16

Found in real life situations doesn’t matter if weapon is being carried or not

Question 17

Kohnken

Answer 17

Cognitve interview increases correct information by 81% but increases incorrect information by 61%