Schmolck Flashcards

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What is the aim of Schmolck?

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To see where semantic memory is in the brain/how brain damage lines up with semantic knowledge

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2
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How big was the sample?

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6 amnesia patients and 8 controls

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3
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Which design is Schmolck?

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Matched pairs- they were matched on age, sex and education then were in one condition

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4
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The brain damaged patients could be looked at in two halves which were

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MTL only damage and MTL & Anterolateraltemporal lobe damage

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5
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What resources were used?

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24 pictures of objects and 24 pictures of animals which could be broken into groups i.e water animals

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How many tasks did they do?

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13, 9 from the semantic battery

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What sort of tasks did they do?

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Name the picutre, point at a named object, describe an object, put them into categories

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How were the description tasks scored?

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by observers on a 1-4 scale

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What are the results?

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MTL+ patients performed worse than MTL (who were no different from the controls)

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10
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What are the results about HM?

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HM did the worst in the MTL group

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11
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For non living objects which is the correct percentage identified?

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MTL+ 62pc vs MTL 90pc

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12
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What is a problem with the sample?

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All of the brain damage is unique and therefore cannot be representative of others

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13
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Does this study have a good sample size?

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This is a small sample of participants and so the results might not be representative to a wider population

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14
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What is a strength of the design used?

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It used a matched-pairs design which reduces participant variables since people were matched on things like intelligence beforehand so it doesn’t impact the results

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15
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Is Schmolck eliable?

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Most of the procedure is standardised like everyone having the same pictures of objects and animals

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16
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Is Schmock high in mundane realism?

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No as line drawings of objects/animals and the tasks etc are not like real life examples of using memory

17
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What is a strength of this study in terms of reliability?

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Inter-rater reliablity was gained from researchers on the description tasks

18
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What is a problem with the ethics of the study?

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Since they had brain damage and memory issues they might have had problems with informed consent