Cognitive Approach

Cognitive Approach

1. Models of Memory

   • Levels of Processing
   • Multi Store Model
     • Atkinson and Shifferin 1968
     • There are 3 stores
       • Sensory Memory Store
         • information enters through the senses
         • Lasts upto 2 seconds
         • Only passes to STM if the information is important
       • Short-Term Memory
         • Can hold around 7 items
         • Lasts between 18 and 30 seconds
         • Encoding
           • Mainly Acoustic
         • Information is passed to LTM if rehersed
           • Lost if not rehersed
       • Long-Term Memory
         • Infinite Capacity
         • Memories can last forever
         • Endoding
           • mainly semantic
     • Evaluation
       • Strengths
         • Clive wearing
         • Glanzer and Cunitz
       • Weaknesses

2. Research Methodology

   • Lab Experiment
   • Field Experiment
   • Natural Experiment

3. Studies in Detail

   • Levels of Processing
   • Context-Dependant

4. Evidence of Practise

5. Theories of Forgetting

6. Key Issue