AQA A Level Psychology Study Guide with Questions and Answers

central executive - acts as a filter to determine what information is received - limited capacity - baddeley found participants couldn't type letters and numbers on a keyboard whilst speaking random numbers - limited research phonological loop - stores verbal information - divided into: - acoustic store: holds words heard - articulatory process: holds words heard and repeats them visuo-spatial sketchpad - stores visual and spatial information - divided into: - visual cache: stores visual material - inner scribe: handles spatial information - baddeley found participants couldn't trace a capital F whilst explaining each angle as both use the VSS - the brain activates in the left hemisphere for visual information and right information for spatial information supporting the divided store episodic buffer - created by baddeley as a general store - stores all types of information - limited capacity - a case study shows a person held 25 items in their STM which is more than the capacity of the VSS and PL suggesting a third store - very limited research to support this being here interference theory example and evaluation information in the LTM gets disrupted with other information during coding which leads to inaccurate recall. 1. proactive interference: occurs when something previously-stored interferes an attempt to recall something new e.g. trying to recall a new phone number but getting confused with the old one 2. retroactive interference: occurs when newly stored information interferes with the recall of previously stored information e.g. trying to recall your new number plate but getting confused with the old one baddeley and hitch got rugby players to recall all the teams they have played against to test interference theory and trace decay. they found forgetting was more due to the number of games played rather than the time between each game supporting interference theory rather than decay theory