Memory Models
This memory model was proposed by Atkinson and Shiffrin and consists of sensory, short-term, and long-term stores.
What is the Multi-Store Model of Memory?
This theory suggests that forgetting occurs because new information disrupts previously stored memories
What is interference theory?
Loftus and Palmer’s study investigated the effect of these on memory recall
What are leading questions?
What is the acronym for the CI
PROD
This famous amnesic patient suffered severe anterograde amnesia after suffering from encephalitis
Who is CW?
This type of long-term memory involves recalling personal events and experiences
What is episodic memory?
This occurs when older memories interfere with the recall of new memories.
What is proactive interference?
Loftus and Palmer found that those in the smashed condition reported seeing broken glass when there was none- this was not reported in the other verb conditions- what is the name of this effect?
What is confabulation?
This brain structure is crucial for the formation of new long-term memories and was surgically removed in patient HM
What is the hippocampus?
In the Multi-Store Model, this type of encoding is primarily used in long-term memory.
What is semantic encoding?
Godden and Baddeley’s study on deep-sea divers supports this theory of forgetting
What is context-dependent forgetting?
This factor refers to when witnesses discuss an event with others, which can distort individual memory recall.
What is post-event discussion?
This study proved that STM is 18-30s in Duration- when rehearsal is not present
Peterson & Peterson
According to Baddeley and Hitch’s Working Memory Model, this component is responsible for integrating information from multiple sources
What is the episodic buffer?
Tulving's theory that states that cues improve memory retrieval
What is Encoding Specificity Principle?
Who are Yuille and Cutshall?
Bahrick et al. found that recognition of high school classmates’ names and faces remained high for up to this many years
48 years
The 2 components found in the Visuospatial Sketchpad
What are the inner-scribe and visual cache?
This type of forgetting occurs when memory retrieval is blocked due to emotional or psychological factors.
What is repression?
This rule states that EWT are most accurate at moderate levels of anxiety- an upside-down U
What is Yerkes-Dodson Law?
This researcher developed the concept of ‘schema theory’ and showed how memory can be reconstructed.
Who is Bartlett?