case studies

case studies

1. Glanzer and Cunitz

   • serial position curve
     • list of 30 words
       • after list has been read you need to write down as many words as you can remember
     • the first and the last words showed to have a higher recall rate
       • they where given the attention needed to transfer into the LTM or STM

2. clive wearing

   • after getting herpes simplex in 1985 Clive was unable to make new memories
   • he kept his procedural memories but was unable to create any new semantic or episodic memories
   • he remembered his wife

3. Peterson and Peterson

   • trigram study
   • p's were asked to count back from 451 In 3's after showing them a trigram
     • this would stop them from rehursing
   • changed the intervals of counting from 3,6,9,12,15,18 seconds

4. Conrad

   • encoding in STM
   • acoustically similar and dissimilar letters
   • write down the letters in the correct order

5. braddeley

   • encoding LTM and STM
   • acoustically similar words acoustically dissimilar words semantically similar words semantically dissimilar words

6. Loftus

   • reconstruction of an automobile destruction
   • smashed, collided, bumped, hit, contacted
   • the verb conveyed an impression of the speed of the car was travelling and this altered the participants perceptions

7. Johnson and Scott

   • weapon effect
   • research negative recall and anxiety
   • bloody knife and a pen
     • after an argument
   • 49% of the participants that saw a pen remembered the offender
     • 33% of the participants that saw the knife were able to identify the offender