quiz of AS Psychology- Memory

Which study supports the existance of unitary stores for the LTM and the STM?

. The Case Study of H.M

. Bahrick et al

. Brown and Kulik

. Conrad

The STSS is encoded in...

. Iconic (Visual)

. Echoic (auditory)

. Both Iconic and Auditory

. Semantic (meaning)

The long term memory is...

. encoded Semantically, can store unlimited amounts of data, can store infomation for years

. Encoded Iconicly and echoicly, can store 7+ or - 2 items at a time, can store immeasurably large amounts of data

. encoded Semantically, can store immeasurably large amounts of data, can store infomation for years

the relationship between Anxiety/memory follows the Yerke-Dodson law.

. True

. False

. Yerke Dodson law?! It's good to have some but too much is bad

. Yerke Dodson law?! Anxiety is bad because people are too busy being worried to focus

Harry Harlow did the experiment about...

. Monkeys preference toward comfort or food

. The capacity of the STM

. The case study of HM

. The experiment to see if people would electrocute somebody to death if told to do so by an authority figure

The Cognitive interview is...

. Better than the normal interview in every conceivable way; it just takes more skill and time

. Better in every way but more irrelevant infomation occurs, and can cause distress to the Participant

. Both Answers above

. It is no better than a normal interview.

Leading question have most effect on...

. Children?

. The elderly

. The stuborn?

. Distressed participants?

The working memory model is better than the Multistore model

. True, but only for the short term memory

. False. There is much more evidence against it than there is for it.

. True. It is the only model which shows how the memory works and has little evidence against it.

. Both A and C

. None of the above

The WMM (working memory model) Consists of....

. The Phonological Loop, The Central Executive, The Visuo-spatial Scratchpad

. The STSS, The STM, The LTM

. The Episodic Buffer, The central executive, The Phonological loop, Visuo-Spatial scratchpad

... is a flaw with the 'story method' of memory improvement

. More unrelated words recalled

. Context Dependency

. Low ecological Validity

. Low Population Validity

"Bartlett" Study was about... and showed that...

. The Reconstrutive nature of memory... Medium anxiety is best for accurate recall

. The Reconstrutive nature of memory... The longer a memory is left, the less accurate the subsequent recall is

. The effects of institualisation on memory... Institualised Children had less accurate memorys and were more likely to attention seek

. The Effects of age on memory... Age to memory accuracy follows the yerkes dodson law

Weapon Focus is bad for memory

. True

. False

. It's reduces the likelyhood that the face of the weapon holder is remembered hence yes, weapon focus is bad for memory

. False. People focus more when a weapon is in the room so recall is improved