psychology

psychology

1. input

   • encoding
     • storage
       • retrieval
         • output
           • recall the information
         • taken out of storage
       • held in the brain until the brain needs the informaton
     • changed into a format the brain understands
   • information enters the brain

2. sensory store

   • short term memory
     • long term memory
     • output
     • maintenence rehearsal
     • retrieval
     • transfer
   • attention
   • input
     • encode

3. amnesia

   • retrograde
     • unable to reacall past events before the accident
     • frontal lobe
   • anterograde
     • unable to make new memories
     • hippocampus

4. availability problems

   • data no longer stored in the brain forgotten forever
     • long term

5. accessibility problems

   • cannot retrieve until cues are accessable
     • short term

6. reconstructive theory

   • concerned with what happens when information is stored and retrieved from memory
   • memory is not like a tape recorder, where we mentally play back events and recall them exactly the way they happened
   • its more like an imaginary reconstruction of past events influenced by our attitudes and are responses to the events

7. schema

   • where we have gaps in our memory so we use fake information to fill in the gaps based on what would normally happen
   • e.g- might of gone on a picnic with bob and sue but you cant remember you went with them so you say you went with your family

8. confabulation

   • when you lie but you think that actually happened so its honest lying

9. misinformation

   • peoples memorys are changed due to the information that is given after the event and it chages there mind

10. leading questions

    • questions that contain information previously known to the witness and makes them want to answer differently

11. distortion

    • when things change

12. criticisms of the reconstructive theory

    • not scientific enough- describes memory but doesn't describe it - eg how confabulation works
    • open to demand characteristics- might have guessed the aim and changed the story because of what you got told- Bartlett's war of ghost story
    • being subjective in his research- he might of decided participants were all confabulation