- Baddeley and Hitch felt that the STM was not just one store, but a number of different stores - This is because if you do two things at once and they are both visual tasks you don’t perform as well as if you did them separately - But, if you do two things at once...
- Forgetting is the loss of the ability to recall or recognise something they have previously learned INTERFERENCE THEORY - Interference is an explanation of forgetting as one memory disrupts the ability to recall another. - As the two pieces of information conflict...
- Forgetting in LTM is mainly due to retrieval failure and a lack of accessibility rather than availability - This is the failure to find an item of information because you have insufficient clues or cues RETRIEVAL FAILURE THEORY - This is forgetting due to...
- The eyewitness testimony is the evidence provided in court by a person who witnesses a crime, with a view to identifying the perpetrator of the crime - Eyewitness testimonies are a critical role in criminal investigations but there's evidence to say that they are...
- Stressful situations create anxiety, crimes and accidents are no exception - Anxiety is a state of emotional and physical arousal. - The emotions include having worried thoughts and feelings of tension whilst physical changes include an increased heart rate and...
- Although eyewitness testimony may lack accuracy EWT is still vital to the police and courts - So, psychologists have been looking into how to improve EWT, one of the ways being the cognitive interview THE COGNITIVE INTERVIEW - Fisher and Geiselman (1992) argued that...
- In 1985 Endel Tulving realised that the MSM’s view of LTM was too simplistic and inflexible. - He proposed that there are three different LTM stores, containing different types of information. - He also divided these into two main types of memory: explicit or...
- A representation of how memory works based on three separate memory stores (sensory register, short term memory and long term memory) and how information is processed between these stores DESCRIPTION - Richard Atkinson and Richard Shiffrin (1968) presented the...
SHORT TERM MEMORY - The limited capacity memory store - Your memory for immediate events - Memories disappear unless they are rehearsed - Capacity is between 5-9 items - Duration is between 18-30 seconds - Coding is mainly acoustic - Sometimes referred to as working...