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Struggling with A-Level Psychology essays? These A*-standard memory essay plans will help you structure your answers perfectly and secure top marks. Each plan is clear, concise, and packed with evaluation points, key studies, and critical analysis to impress examiners. Designed for maximum efficiency, these plans follow AQA mark schemes, ensuring you hit all assessment objectives. Plus, they are aesthetically laid out with neat formatting to make revision more engaging and effective.

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Multi-store Model
AO1
• ATKINSON + SHIFFRIN

• stimulus from environment • info from environmen
• Sensory register briefly stored in
• unlimited capacity sensory register
• Duration of 250 ms information that is
• Coding echoic + iconic depiction of of sense that has picked it up attended to moves to
• Forgotten due to decay - not paid att / rehearsed short-term memory
information that is
• STM rehearsed as moved
• limited cap of 5-9 items from short term
• duration = 18-30s memory long-term
• Coding mainly acoustic memory
• Forgetting due to decay - duration of 15-30s exceeded
• Info displaced

• LTM
• unlimited cap
• Lifetime duration
• Semantic coding

• Forgetting due to retrieval failure + absence of corr retrieval cues

• retrieval = LTM -> STM
• Prolonged rehearsal = STM -> LTM
• rehearsal loop = process of mentally repeating information in short-term memory to maintain its present and prevent
forgetting

AO3
S: EVIDENCE FROM MEM STUDIES
• PETERSON + PETERSON - lab exp - STM dur = 15-30s
• BAHRICK - LTM unlimited
W: LAB EXP
S: HM
• case study
• Problems in LTM after brain surgery
• Rem little personal + public events
• STM intact
• Sep stores

W: CASE STUDY
W: STM MANY STORES
• BADDELEY + HITCH

, Working Memory Model
AO1
BADDELEY + HITCH
• Model of STM - active store

• central executive
• Most imp
• Problem solving + decision making
• Supervisory function - over 3 slave systems

• phonological loop
• Stores + processes limited am of verbal + speech - based sounds
• Phonological store : stores heard words
• Articualatory process : maintenance reh of items stored in ph store + cap of 2s of info

• VSS
• Setting up + manipulating mental images
• Limited cap of 3-4 items
• Visual coding
• Visual cache - stores visual info
• Inner scribe - record, arrangement of objects in visual field

• episodic buffer
• Integrates, visual spatial and verbal information
• Storage component of central executive
• Links working memory to LTM


AO3
S: BADDELEY + HITCH
• ps could perform reasoning task while reading aloud 6 digits
• 2 tasks carried out simultaneously in STM
• Sep stores + suv comp dividing att

W: LAB EXP
• artificial + controlled
• Low eco val
• Limits gen
W: ROLE OF CE UNCLEAR
• argue CE many components
• EVR
• Perform reasoning tasks
• problems with decision-making
S: RW EVIDENCE : KF
• motorbike acc
• Brain damage
• Impaired art loop but intact VSS
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