Cognitive Psychology

Cognitive Psychology

1. Key studies

   • Godden & Baddeley's Divers study of context dependent forgetting
   • Craik & Tulving's Levels of Processsing Study

2. Research methods

   • laboratory experiments
   • field experiments
   • natural experiments
   • operationalisation
   • hypotheses
     • alternative/experimental
     • 1-tailed /directional
     • 2-tailed/non-directional
     • null

3. Models/ theories of memory and forgetting

   • Mulitstore Model of Memory
     • Peterson & Peterson
   • Levels of Processing
     • Craik & Tulving
   • Cue-dependent theory of forgetting
     • Godden & Baddeley
   • Trace Decay
     • Peterson & Peterson

4. Key issue

   • The Reliability of Eye Witness Testimony
     • Loftus & Palmer
     • Weapon Focus
       • Pickel

5. Key Terms

   • information processing
   • memory
   • forgetting
   • storage
   • retrieval

6. Define the Approach

7. Practical

   • Gender difference in context dependent forgetting