Key Concepts & Applications
This can help trigger a memory.
What is a cue.
This is the amount of space each store has.
What is capacity.
This was the sample of this study.
Who is Clive Wearing.
This is a mental representation of an object or situation, based upon prior experience
What is a schema
This research method was used in both studies.
What is a (lab) experiment.
This stage in the information processing model is similar to a computer interpreting a song as binary.
What is encoding.
This can increase the capacity of the STM
What is chunking.
This research method was used.
What is a case study.
Recall is influenced by these two things.
Experience and Expectation.
This was used to collect data from participants.
What is a questionnaire.
Damage to this part of the brain can cause anterograde amnesia.
What is the hippocampus.
This is the amount of time information remains in each store.
What is duration.
Researchers were able to image CW's brain using this.
What is an MRI.
This is when the mind incorrectly fills in gaps in our memory.
What is confabulation
This was an impossible character participants in study 2 were influenced to remember.
Ariel or Bugs Bunny
If there is too much information in an advert, is can cause this.
What is overload.
Information will move from the sensory store to STM if this occurs.
What is attention.
Although he had anterograde and retrograde amnesia, he was still able to do this...
(Hint: Name a skill)
play the piano, recognise his wife and children, conduct an orchestra, read, write and talk
This is when a memory is different from the events that actually took place.
What is distortion.
Braun was interested in investigating this type of memory.
What is Autobiographical.
This part of the brain is responsible for procedural memory.
What is the cerebellum.
Information in the STM is encoded in this way.
What is acoustically.
This caused irreversible damage to CW's brain.
What is HSVE
These can cause distortion.
What are leading questions
Given that students were receiving credit, this method of sampling was most likely used.
What is volunteer or self selected.