psychologists/researchers (memory) Flashcards
what did baddeley research?
coding of memory stores
he found that participants recalled acoustically similar words worse from STM and recalled semantically similar worse from LTM
STM = acoustic, LTM = semantic
what did jacobs research?
capacity of STM
digit span recall
what did miller research?
capacity of STM
looked at patterns (seven days of week etc)
7+/-2
what did peterson and peterson study?
duration of stm
trigrams
18 seconds
what did bahrick study?
duration of LTM
yearbook study
photo-recognition: 90% accurate after 15 years, 70% accurate after 48 years
free recall: 60% after 15 years, 30% accurate after 48 years
what did atkinson and shiffrin research?
multi store model of memory
what did tulving research?
the stores of LTM (episodic, semantic, procedural)
what did baddeley and hitch research?
working memory model
what did baddeley and hitch research?
memory inteference (rugby player study)
what did tulving and psotka research?
how interference occurred due to absence of cues
word list (one category with category headings, one without)
what did mcgeoch and mcdonald study?
retroactive interference
word list recall study
what did tulving study?
encoding specificity principle (ESP)
what did baddeley and godden study?
context-dependent forgetting
deep sea divers
what did carter and cassaday research?
state-dependent forgetting
antihistamine study
what did loftus and palmer research?
the impact of leading questions on EWT
change of verb car crash study
what did gabbert research?
the impact of post-event discussion on EWT
showed video of same crime but with different hair colour of perpetrator
what did valentine and mesout study?
the impact of anxiety on EWT
what did johnson and scott study?
weapon focus and negative impact of anxiety on EWT
grease and pen vs blood and knife
what did yuille and cutsall study?
positive impact of anxiety on EWT
real life witnesses of murder of theif in gun shop
what did yerkes and dodson research?
explained contradictory findings of effect of anxiety on EWT
yerkes-dodson law
what did deffenbacher research?
supported yerkes-dodson law
reviewed 21 studies of EWT
what did fisher and geiselman research?
the cognitive interview
(fisher later developed additional elements to focus on
what did christianson and hubinette research?
impact of anxiety on EWT
swedish bank robber study
