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AQA A-level Psychology: Memory Latest 2023 Graded A+ Capacity The amount of information that can be stored. Coding The format in which information is stored. Duration The amount of time information can be stored. Episodic memory A type of LTM. Store of personal events such as the last time you went to the beach. Semantic memory A type of LTM store. Stores general information, knowledge that's shared by everyone for example that Paris is the capital of France. Procedural memory A type of L...

AQA A level Psychology: Memory key studies Latest 2023 Graded A+ Baddeley (1966) CODING IN STM & LTM Acoustically similar/dissimilar words Semantically similar/dissimilar words Immediate recall worse for acoustically similar STM is acoustic Recall after 20 mins worse with semantically similar words LTM is semantic Jacobs (1887) CAPACITY OF STM Digit span: researcher reads 4 digits and increases until the order cannot be recalled correctly 9.3 numbers 7.3 letters Miller (1956) CAPACITY OF STM...

EPPP Cognitive with complete solution 2023 updatedPsychophysics - correct answer the study of relationships between the physical characteristics of stimuli, such as their intensity, and our psychological experience of them just noticeable difference - correct answer the threshold at which one can distinguish two stimuli that are of different intensities, but otherwise identical Phonological loop - correct answer the part of working memory that holds and processes verbal and auditory inform...

What is obedience? A form of social influence in which an individual follows a direct order from a figure of authority. What was Milgram's (1964) study? Milgram (1964) sought an answer to why such a high proportion of the German population obeyed Hitler's commands to murder over 6 million Jews in the Holocaust and other social groups during WW2. Procedure: 40 US men were given the role of TEACHER through a fixed draw - ordered to administer (fake) electric shocks to LEARNER (confederate)...

Chapter 8 the cell anatomy and division questions well answered 2022What is memory? The process that allows us to record and retrieve experiences and information . What are the three basic memory processes? -Encoding = Translating into neural code -Storage = Retained over time -Retrieval = pulled back out What are the 3 stage model? 1)Sensory memoy 2)Working/short term memory 3)Long term memory Describe sensory memory. 1)Iconoic stores: visual information -Lasts fr...

The tutor for the first-year psychology group is dealing with the topic of impulse conduction in the human nervous system. After the group discussion, the tutor asks the students the following questions to test their knowledge of the study material. The part of the neuron that is responsible for receiving information signals from other neurons is called . 1. Myelin sheath 2. boutons 3. dendrites 4. soma Answer: The correct answer is 3 Refer: A-Z of Psy, pg. 88 Reasoning: The soma rece...

CHAPTER 5 MEMORY: MODELS AND RESEARCH METHODS Basic Questions 1. For which type of stimuli was your memory span the longest? For which was it the shortest? 2. What three types of mistakes could one make in recalling the stimulus sequence that would lead to it being scored as incorrect? 3. Approximately how many items can the average person hold in short-term memory? Advanced Questions 1. Typically, when the stimulus sequence consists of long words, one’s memory span is shorter than wh...

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