Theory Evaluations Flashcards
Multi store model weaknesses
Craig and Lockhart believe there is limited storage capacity
Shallice and Warrington motorcycle accident had no short term but did have long term
Strengths of explanation of long term memory
MRI scans show different parts of the brain are used
Heindel found people with Huntingdons disease could learn new facts but not new skills
Dr S Butterworth had a ski accident and could still ski but couldn’t recognise his wife he could also still diagnose himself so he lost episodic memory but nothing else
Tulving performed brain scans and found different parts active when asked different things
Squire and kandel found the cerebellum is used for motor skills
Weakness of explanation of long term memory
Tulving describes but doesn’t explain
MTL used for both types so not seperate
Strengths of reconstructive memory
Bartlett’s story proves that we change to fit our lifestyle
Loftus and Palmer eyewitness testimony
Scientifically testable as reduced to IV and DV
Branford andJohnson did a laundry task but participants didn’t know it was describing laundry and so they added details as to what they thought it was
Weaknesses of reconstructive memory
Bartlett chose an unusual story which was already hard to recall and so it is not reliable
Individual difference are unaccounted for
Not applicable as done in a lab
Stevyers and Hemmer experimental condition says it deliberately induce errors in recall
Multi store model strengths
Glanzer and Cunitz showed that primacy and recency effect are due to different stores of memory
Peterson and Peterson blocked rehearsal and found less recall
Clive wearing couldn’t use his STM and therefore had no LTM (follows a pattern)
MRI scans show brain activity in the different areas dependant on what memory they’re using
