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Types of Memory
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Process in which information is Retained aboutthe past
↓ ↓

Long-term memory
Short-term
I
memory

Sensory Register




I
.
Limited Limited
stores information

Temporarily Duration
from
capacity
receiving
dniie
our senses
&
-




information from around us


② Unless we
pay attention
to it,
it disappears quickly.
capacity, unlimited capacity
③ has limited
Sensory register a
I
and limited duration.
very
a



④ Information coded
depending ploding:semanti
is on the

thathas picked it
sense
up. Semantic Procedural
Episodia
MEMORY MEMORY
MEMORY


Peterson and Peterson (1959) -
the duration of STM
Results:After seconds, participants
could recall about80%
3
correctly.
After 10 seconds, participants could recall 10% correctly.

Conclusion
Duration of STM-18 seconds.

Bahrick et. al. (1975) -



Long-term memory
Jacobs (1887) -



Capacity of STM




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simplistic and vague .




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only

how STM LTM
explains
,
information is dealt with in
,
and not in .




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.
It has less emphasis on Rehearsal .




Evidence from lab that
☆ a
study supports WMM .




FORGETTING (197-1)
so Tubing and Psotka
If can't retrieve it's forgotten in LTM depend
you
a
memory ,
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-
can
mm
on
getting
mm
cues
mm
.




Interference -

one
explanation for
forgetting Forgetting is treated as a retrieve -




↓ the information still exists but is not accessible

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.




cues help us remember .

They can be
/ mood ) ( surroundings )
information interferes internal external
Cue -


dependent
when the when the old information and →
new .


learning
interferes
with the
ability to recall older with the
ability
information to recall new information +
Strongestin evidence for
LTM
forgetting
EVALUATION
.




lacks meaning in real
who - the
theory world
.




doesn't
@ it 's
supported by tons of ④ it
go
into
biological
.




and
studies
cognitive processes .
- The
theory does not explain all
⑥ there is evidence for it ④ the effects much greater of memory ( like
an are seem
types
existing in real world too .
in artificial
real
lab than
world
-
they do in
p-ro-cedui.ee)
.






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can be affected

F- 'NT can be inaccurate and distorter ; by TELLINGinformation
Loftus and Palmer (197-4) used
Leading questioning question
_
a



Also
that implied and answer in it .




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,
during the study '




they changed
'

the word hit to smashed
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or

' '



collided the
question
'


in How fast the cars were
going
when the collided ! The
'
'


participants given the word smashed
y

'


contacted
the
highest speed while the the lowest
'

who the word
gave ,
ones were
given ,
gave
.




É Leading questions affect the of people 's memory of event
accuracy
can an .




Post event
-
discussion can affect the Accuracy of Recall

Shaw et.at .

( 1997 ) paired participants with a confederate who pretended to be a
participant .
When the participant
responded first ,
the recall was accurate 58 % of the time .
When the confederate was first and
gave
accurate


answers
,
the recall of the
participants was 67% .
When the confederate
gives inaccurate answers
,
correct recall

of the participants fell to 42 % .




Loftus (194-9) -




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with indendent heard condition
In a
study an
groups design participants ,
a discussion in a
nearby room .
In one
,
a




man came out of the room with a
.pe#gre&- on his hands .
In second condition ,
a man came




carrying a knifee Participants .
were asked to
identify the man from 50
photographs .




Participants in condition 1 we 49¥ . accurate .



Only 33% of the participants in condition 2



were correct .




↳ Conclusion when focus
: anxious and aroused ,
witnesses tend to on
the
weapon at the expense of
other details .




↳ Evaluation :


+
High ecological validity as
participants didn't know the
study was
staged .




Ethical distressed at the
issues
participants could have been
frightened and
sight of
-




,
as a man



with a knife covered in blood .




affect EWT !
Misleading questions and Anxiety do not always
I n -
- - - -
mum _ m -



☆H☆ A field
study by Yuille and Cutshall 6986 ) showed that witnesses of a real incident / a
gun shooting)
had
remarkably accurate memories .
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