PPE MEMORY

Question 1

What is episodic memory

Answer 1

personal memories that include specific details of event

Question 2

What are somantic

Answer 2

knowledge about the world. shared by everyone

Question 3

What are procedural memories

Answer 3

Skills that you learn and then perform automatically

Question 4

Briefly describe retrieval failure as an explanation of forgetting. Outline one limitation of
this explanation.

Answer 4

forgetting is due to an absence of cues, preventing access to long-term memory
* cues may be context dependent (to do with the place where information was originally stored) or state
dependent (the person’s emotional/physical state at the time of encoding

Question 5

What are the 2 types of forgetting

Answer 5

-interference theory
- retrieval failure

Question 6

What are the 2 types of interference

Answer 6

-pro-active- old effects new
-retro active-new effects old

Question 7

Describe badely and hitch rugby

Answer 7

asked players to try recall names of all rugby teams they played that season. hadn’t all played same number of games. Amount of time passed not key factor to recall amount of games influenced.

Question 8

What is a problem with baddely and hitch rugby

Answer 8

lacks control. can’t establish cause and effect

Question 9

What is retreval failure

Answer 9

info not retreaved due to absence of cues at time of recall.

Question 10

What are 2 types of retreval failure

Answer 10

-context dependent forgetting- lack of external cues
-state dependent forgetting-lack of internal cues

Question 11

What does godden and baddeley support

Answer 11

context dependent forgetting

Question 12

Describe godden and baddeley

Answer 12

having scuba divers learning and recalling words. Underwater, under, under+land. land+under, land+ land
Found recall better when location the same

Question 13

Evaluation of godden and badely

Question 14

What did Gabbert et al used for and what did they find

Answer 14

-Post-event discussion
-71% of participants mistakenly recalled aspects of an event they had picked up in a discussion

Question 15

What study can we use for leading questions

Answer 15

loftus and palmer

Question 16

What was loftus and palmer

Answer 16

1)car crash video: “About how fast were the cars going when they___” contacted, hit, bumped, collided, smashed
2) Second experiment. Participants heard “smashed” more likely falsely recall seeing broken glass

Question 17

Evaluation of loftus and palmer

Answer 17

-high control of variables
-Lack of ecological valididty

Question 18

What study can be used for weapon focus

Answer 18

johnson and scott

Question 19

What did johnson and scott do

Answer 19

low anxiety condition- heard fighting left room with pen
high anxiety condition- heard fighting and left room with bloody knife
-when asked to identify man those in high anxiety less accurate

Question 20

What are the conditions of cog interview

Answer 20

-reinstate context
- report everything
- reverse order
- change perspective