Bahrick Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

AQA A-Level Psychology Memory topic notes [paper 1]

This summarizes all the case studies you need to know for AQA A-level psychology, for the memory sub-topic.

AQA AS Psychology – Memory Questions and Answers 100% Pass Coding The format in which information is stored. (How) Who Did Research On Coding? Baddely Baddely's Procedure Four groups were given lists to remember a) acoustically similar words b) acoustically dissimilar words c) semantically similar words d) semantically dissimilar words -They were asked to recall the words some had to immediately (STM) others had to wait 20 minutes (LTM) Result of Baddley's Experiment For STM Confusion be...

Memory revision notes with detailed explanation of AO1 and AO3 evaluation for each bullet points. I made these notes myself and I got an A* in psychology aqa a level with these written notes alone. You can convert the notes to flashcards like I did if you want to quiz yourself. Includes key studies and key psychologists including Bahrick, Peterson, miller, loftus, mcgeogh, tulvin and a lot more. Topics 1. Coding, capacity and duration of memory 2. The multi store model of memory 3....

Baddely Correct Answer Coding evidence for STM and LTM; 74 ppts word list recall for four groups; acoustically similar, acoustically dissimilar, semantically similar, semantically dissimilar. immediate and 20 minute later recall Baddely results Correct Answer participants did worse on acoustically similar words for STM, and worse on semantically similar for LTM (meaning they code that way) Jacobs Correct Answer Capacity research of STM with a digit span test, 4 digits start and then decrea...

Study of capacity of STM - ANSWER Miller (Immediate Digit Span Test) Jacobs Support Study of duration of STM - ANSWER Peterson and Peterson (Trigrams) 24 students given a consonant syllable and a three digit number ie. THX 512. They were asked to recall the consonant syllable after a retention interval of 3, 6 , 9, 12 or 15 seconds. During this interval they had to count backwards from their three digit number. Participants were 90% correct after 3 seconds, 20% correct after 9 and only 2% ...

Study of capacity of STM Correct Answers Miller (Immediate Digit Span Test) Jacobs Support Study of duration of STM Correct Answers Peterson and Peterson (Trigrams) 24 students given a consonant syllable and a three digit number ie. THX 512. They were asked to recall the consonant syllable after a retention interval of 3, 6 , 9, 12 or 15 seconds. During this interval they had to count backwards from their three digit number. Participants were 90% correct after 3 seconds, 20% correct after ...

This detailed essay plan has 4 main points that construct the 4 paragraphs for your essay. Each paragraph follows a point, evidence, explanation (P.E.E.) technique with support studies (e.g Bahrick 1975, Jacobs 1887) and further evaluation of the results. The main focus of the points are AO3. The plan is very detailed and is close to a fully developed essay of a top level response. It was written with the help of the AQA A-level Psychology textbook and my class notes.

The ability to recall events from our lives Correct Answer What is the Episodic Memory? A visual representation of memory. It is a structural model in which STM and LTM are unitary stores. Information flows in a linear fashion through each store. Each store has a different capacity, information is held for a different duration, and information coding differs. Correct Answer What is The Multistore Model Atkinson and Shiffrin (1968) Correct Answer Who was the The Multistore Model created...

Study of capacity of STM Miller (Immediate Digit Span Test) Jacobs Support Study of duration of STM Peterson and Peterson (Trigrams) 24 students given a consonant syllable and a three digit number ie. THX 512. They were asked to recall the consonant syllable after a retention interval of 3, 6 , 9, 12 or 15 seconds. During this interval they had to count backwards from their three digit number. Participants were 90% correct after 3 seconds, 20% correct after 9 and only 2% correct afte...