Topic 2-Memory

Question 1

Strengths of Peterson and Peterson

Answer 1

they used standardised procedures such as fixed timings
Demonstrates how interference of verbal distractions can affect our ability to retain info in our short-term memory

Question 2

Weaknesses Of Peterson

Answer 2

Used Trigrams not ecologically valid
Lacks mundane realism

Question 3

Strengths of MSM

Answer 3

Murdock (1962) discovered the serial position effect
Cases of amnesia show that brain injury can damage the LTM but not the STM

Question 4

Weaknesses Of MSM

Answer 4

Sometimes we remember info but not because we rehearsed it - E.g. the info is more meaningful to us so we remember it
Cases of amnesia show that some long-term memories are damages while others are not

Question 5

Strengths of Bartlett’s Reconstructive memory theory

Answer 5

Police use a cognitive interview to avoid eyewitnesses misremembering events which may lead to the wrong person being prosecuted
Conducted research using folk stories and images, which are a realistic use of memory

Question 6

Weaknesses of barletts reconstructive

Answer 6

Bartlett’s findings could be seen as subjective. Analyzed each story based off his own interpretations.
not very scientific
Cared about unique participants

Question 7

Strengths Of War Of Ghosts

Answer 7

May have ecological validity
Bartlett replicated this procedure with other stories and found similar results
Qualitative data was gathered

Question 8

Weaknesses of war of ghosts

Answer 8

Story was unfamiliar - May also lack ecological validity
Lacks a standardised procedure
Unscientific analysis of data