Cognitive Psychology Research Studies

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A Levels Psychology (PSYA1 Cognitive Psychology) Flashcards on Cognitive Psychology Research Studies, created by Gurdev Manchanda on 05/01/2015.
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JACOBS 1890 CAPACITY STM Investigated SERIAL DIGIT SPAN between 4 and 10 digits 7+-2 items precisely presented every half second
EVALUATION OF JACOBS + a lot of supporting evidence - Miller - lacks mundane realism- laboratory experiment, material doesn't have any significance to the particiant
MILLER 1965 CAPACITY STM chunks span of STM is limited but not by bits of info but by chunks number of chunks that can be remembered is 7+-2
PETERSON AND PETERSON 1959 DURATION STM TRIGRAM RECALL interference task=ensure testing STM count backwards from 100 in threes at 18 secs, correct was 10% retention interval increased= percentage correct decreased
BAHRICK ET AL 1975 DURATION LTM YEARBOOKS - asked to identify individuals shows existence of accurate very long term memory after 34 years could recall 90% of classmates
BADDELEY 1966 ENCODING STM 2 lists of words - acoustically similar = 55% recall acoustically dissimilar = 75% recall means that info tends to be acoustically coded - that's why they got muddled
BADDELEY 1966 ENCODING LTM 2 lists =
LOFTUS AND PALMER A: MISLEADING INFORMATION EWT P: 45 students P: clip of car accidents, ppts split into 5 groups, asked how fast
GOODMAN AND REED A: EFFECTS OF AGE ON EWT P: 3, 6 and 22 year olds P: in room w/ male stranger who asked questions and told them a sequence of events. recall was five days later F:
LOFTUS ET AL A: EFFECTS OF ANXIETY ON EWT, weapon focus P: 36 uni students P: showed 18 slides of a man in a queue and receiving money at the end. for one group the man was holding a cheque in his hand, and for the other, he was holding a gun F: they all performed well on the questionnaire, only 11% of those who saw the gun identified the man correctly in comparison to 39% of whom saw the cheque, analysis of eye movement showed that the ppts fixated on the gun more frequently and for longer than the cheque
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