Psychology in Society Flashcards
Cognitive?
Baddeley - gave us more insight into our STM and LTM – people/psychologists developed on his results to find out more about the LTM (for example), like episodic and semantic memory
Schmolck - concluded that the anterolateral temporal cortex has a link with semantic knowledge and memory; which is correlative with dementia patients. They have deficits in the anterolateral temporal cortex, as opposed to the medial temporal cortex
MSM - gave us insight into how our memory works, psychologists then used this model to develop the stores e.g. episodic and semantic memory, and the working memory model
HM - his hippocampus damage and consequential amnesia has helped with many different theories, models and studies. For example, the multi store model of memory and Schmolck’s study
RM - Helps us understand why I witness testimony is maybe very inaccurate, and why it is not recommended to use eyewitness testimonies as sole evidence in court
Also can apply everything to eyewitness testimony key question
Criminal?
MPA, drug treatments
Token economies
EWTs- key question somewhat
