Key Studies in Memory

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All key studies in Memory
Urvashi Makwana
Flashcards by Urvashi Makwana, updated more than 1 year ago
Urvashi Makwana
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Baddeley (1966) Coding in STM and LTM STM= Acoustic LTM= Semantic
Jacobs (1887) Capacity of STM Procedure: Digit span Findings: pp's could repeat back 9.3 numbers and 7.3 letters
Miller (1956) Capacity of STM 7+/-2 Items
Peterson and Peterson (1959) Duration of STM Procedure: 24 pp's given consonant and 3-digit number to count backwards for 3,6,9,12,15,18 secs Findings: 80% for 3 secs, 3% for 18 secs
Bahrick et al (1975) Duration of LTM Procedure: Recognition test, Free recall test pp's more accurate on recognition test than free recall test
Atkinson and Shiffrin (1968) Multi-store Model of Memory
Baddeley and Hitch (1974) Working Memory Model
McGeoch and McDonald (1931) Interference Interference is strongest when the memories are similar- proactive and retroactive interference
Godden and Baddeley (1975) Context-dependent Forgetting Deep sea divers learned lists on land/underwater Accurate recall lower in non matching conditions
Loftus and Palmer (1974) Leading Questions Car crash video Verb 'contacted'- 31.8mph Verb 'smashed'- 40.5 mph
Gabbert et al (2003) Post-event Discussion Video of crime - two conditions 71% pp's mistakenly recalled aspects picked up in post-event discussion
Johnson and Scott (1976) Anxiety- Negative Effect Low anxiety- pen and grease High anxiety- paper knife and blood Low- 49% correctly identify man High- 33% correctly identify man
Yuille and Cutshall (1986) Anxiety- Positive Effect Real life crime in gun shop pp's who reported high stress were more accurate- 88% compared to 75% for less stress
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