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16 Cards in this Set
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What is the encoding, capacity and the duration of sensory memory?
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Encoding - iconic and echoic
Capacity - fraction Duration - 0.4 seconds |
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What is the encoding, capacity and duration of short term memory?
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Encoding - mostly acoustic
Capacity - 7+/-2 items Duration - 15-20 seconds |
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What is the encoding, capacity and the duration of long term memory?
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Encoding - semantic
Capacity - virtually unlimited Duration - almost a lifetim |
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What are the strengths of the multi-store model of memory?
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LTM and STM are distinguished
Primary and Recency Effect |
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What are the weaknesses of the multi-store model of memory?
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Too simplistic and inflexible and doesn't explain the processes involved
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What the strengths of the working memory model?
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Explains ability to carry out tasks that process and store at the same time
Evidence for phonological loop and visuo-spatial scratch pad |
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Name a weakness of the working memory model
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The most important feature is least known about (central executive)
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What is a schema? How does it affect EWT?
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Knowledge packages which are built up through experience of the world which enable us to make sense of familiar situations and aid interpretation of new information
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What is a leading question?
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A question that is worded in such a way that it may bias how a respondant answers. Use "the".
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How is a cognitive interview different from a standard interview?
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Recreate context of original incident
Report every detail Recall in different orders Change perspectives |
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Name three other factors that affect eyewitness testimony
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Age of the witness
Role of anxiety Misleading Information |
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What is elaborative rehearsal and how is a technique for memory rehearsal?
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Information is made meaningful, linking to pre-existing knowledge and therefore its semantically encoded, now the information can be recalled easily because there are several routes to reach items in memory
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Julie has a list of 50 words that she has to learn for a test, what memory improvement technique should she use?
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Organisation - create heirachies
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ESP is a memory improvement technique, what is it?
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Encoding Specificity Principle - the place or the context becomes a retrieval cue, the closer you are the better the cue.
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Any other techniques for memory improvement?
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Mneumonics, method of loci, paying attention, and avoid interference tasks.
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Research into the role of anxiety?
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Yerkes-Dodson Law
Christianson and Hubinette Yuille and Cutshall |
