Social Approach

Question 1

what are the 4 things that lead to prejudice in RCR

Answer 1

Intergroup competition
Negative interdependence
Limited resources
Superordinate goal

Question 2

What is negative interdependence

Answer 2

Achieving a goal is more important for both groups but only one group wins

Question 3

What is intergroup competition

Answer 3

When two groups are striving for one goal and prejudice increases

Question 4

what are limited resources

Answer 4

scares material

Question 5

What is a superordinate goal

Answer 5

Goals that can only be achieved through cooperation using positive interdependence to reduce prejudice

Question 6

What does RCT state

Answer 6

whenever there are two or more groups that are seeking the same limited resources this will lead to conflict and discrimination

Question 7

What are the 5 A01 points of the multi store model

Answer 7

1. MSM consists of 3 stores called sensory, LTM, STM
2. Sensory is sense specific and duration of 0.5 seconds
3. LTM has unlimited capacity and duration and encodes semantically
4. STM had capacity of 7+/-2 and duration of 30 seconds and encodes acoustically
5. Info is rehearsed from STM to LTM and is retrieved into LTM and STM

Question 8

What is the first strength of MSM

Answer 8

Supporting evidence
After HM had his hippocampus removed he couldn’t remember that his dad passed as he was not able to rehearse info from STM to LTM so he couldn’t make new episodic memories
Therefore MSM is valid in suggesting that STM and LTM are 2 separate stores and work independently

Question 9

What is the first weakness of MSM

Answer 9

Has contradicting evidence
WMM offers more detailed explanation of STM
WMM says that STM consists of 4 components which hold different types of information
Therefore WMM may be more accurate

Question 10

What is the second strength of MSM

Answer 10

Has application to real life to improve memory capacity
The limited capacity of STM can be increased through chunking which can be used for numbers and postcodes
Therefore MSM is useful in everyday situations increasing external validity

Question 11

What is the second weaknesses for MSM

Answer 11

MSM is reductionist
Takes very complex phenomenon and reduces it to a simplistic concept
Cannot explain Kf (victim of motorcycle accident) being able to add new info to LTM despite his STM being damaged
Therefore memory is more complex than the MSM suggests