Key Words/phrases In Memory

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Short Term Memory

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Your memory from immediate events which last a very short time and disappear unless they are rehearsed.

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Long Term Memory

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Your memory for events that have happened in the past. This lasts any time from 2 minutes to 100 years.

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Duration

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A measure of how long memory lasts before it's no longer available.

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Capacity

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This is a measure of how much can be held in memory.

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Encoding

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The way information is changed so it can be stored into memory.

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Chunking

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George Miller (1956) proposed that the capacity of STM can be enhanced by grouping digits or letters into meaningful units or chunks.

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Cognitive Interview

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A police technique for interviewing witnesses to a crime, which encourages them to recreate the original context in increase the retrieval of stored information.

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Stage One-Report Everything

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The interviewee encourages the reporting of every single detail of the event, even though it may seem irrelevant.

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Stage Two-Metal Reinstatement of Original Context

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The interviewer encourages the interviewee to metally recreate the enviromentand contacts from the original incident.

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Stage Three-Changing The Order

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The interviewer may try alternative ways through the time line of the incident, for example reversing it.

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Stage Four-Changing The Perspective

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The interviewee is asked to recall the incident from multiple perspectives, for example imagining how it would of appeared to other witnesses.

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Sensory Store/ Sensory Memory

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This is the information at the senses-information collected by your eyes,ears,nose,fingers and so on. You must gain attention to this inforation for it to enter STM.

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Central Executive

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Monitors and co-ordinates all other mental functions in working memory.

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Phonological Loop

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Encodes sounds in the working memory, typically involving maintence rehersal.

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Visuo-Spatial Sketchpad

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Encodes visual information in terms of seperate objects. as well as arrangement of these objects in one's visual field.

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Epidodic Buffer

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Recieves input from many sources, temporarily stores this information and then integrates it in order to construct a metal episode of what is being expierenced right now.

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Word Length Effect

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The observation that people remember lists of short words better than lists of long words.

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Eyewitness Testimony

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The evidence provided in court by a person who witnessed a crime, with a view to identifying the perpetrator of the crime.

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Leading Questions

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Questions that either by it's form or by its content, suggests to the witness what answer os desired or leads them to the desired answer.

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Anxiety

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Is an unpleasant emotional state where we fear that something bad is about to happen.