Cognitive Psychology

Cognitive Psychology

1. Memory

   • Memory is the process of retaining information after the original thing is no longer present. We need a memory to make sense of the past, present and the future
     • STM
       • Capacity - 7+/- 2 items
       • Encoding - Acoustic
       • Duration - Without rehearsal 18 seconds
       • Baddeley
       • Peterson and Perterson
     • LTM
       • Capacity - limitless
       • Encoding - semantic
       • Duration - Potentially forever
       • Baddeley
       • Bahrick
     • Chunking - Miller
   • Multi-store Model
   • Working memory model

2. Eye witness testimony

   • Loftus
   • Yuille and Cutshall
   • Christianson and Hubinette
   • Anastasia and Rhodes
   • Loftus
   • Loftus
   • Cognitive interview
     • Geisleman
     • Holiday
     • Beknon and Dunnett

3. Memory improvement stratergies

   • Mnemonics
   • Method of Loci
   • Organisation
   • Avoiding interference
   • Peg-word effect