ERQ- memory models

Potential Q

Explain 1 study of 1 model of memory.

What’s the multi store model?

The first model to separate memory into sensory, short term and long term memory, it says we are overloaded with sensory stimuli.

what happens if we pay attention to the stimuli.

They pass through sensory memory into short term memory and the info is held there until other information takes its place and if we rehearse it it’s moved to the long term memory.

What’s another model of memory?

• Schema theory is mental representations that come from previous experience and knowledge.

• Schemas help us to predict what to expect based on what has happened before.

• They are used to organise our knowledge and help us to make sense of current experiences.

What’s the study supporting MSM?

Glanced and Cunitz

What’s the aim?

To investigate the multi store model?

What was the design?

Repeated measure design

What was the method?

• researcher read 15 words to participate and asked them to recall the words from each list in any order

• The participants were asked to recall the words immediately after the list was finished or a 10 second or a 30 second delay.

• During delays the participants had to count backwards from 100

What were the results?

• when there was no delay the participants remembered the first and last few words which shows the words at the first on the list were rehearsed and moved to the LTM which was primacy.

• The words at the end of the list were in the STM which was the recency effect.

whats the conclusion of msm?

This study gives support that the multi store model is correct because the long and short term memory can be stored in different places and the information in the STM can be displaced.

Is the multi store model biased?

It isn’t as culturally biased but it can be seen as reductionist because it simplified memory into only 3 stores.

Does the multi store model have application?

Yes to education and how to revise so you remember content that was learned.

What study supports the schema theory and the aim?

Brewer and Treyens wanted to investigate how schemas influence encoding and retrieval of episodic memory.

What was the design?

Independent measures design.

What was the method?

• Participants were shown a room for 35 seconds snitch was supposed to look like an office, with typical, atypical, and missing objects.

• They then had to recall what they saw.

What was the results?

Participants didn’t remember everything from the office and added random things that fir their schemas for offices.

What’s the conclusion of this study?

Schemas influence both encoding and retrieval, leading to biased and sometimes inaccurate memories.

Is schema theory testable?

Yes because it predicts that previous knowledge affects memory and it has support from the findings of Brewer and Treyens.

Does the schema theory have evidence?

Support from Bartlett war of ghosts and brewer and Treyens

Can schema theory be applied to real life?

Eyewitness testimony memory can be distorted

Education

Is schema theory biased?

It can be biased because schemas come from culture and how we are brought up and Bartlett focused on western population.

Does schema Antony predict behaviour?

Schema theory is better at explaining like why memory distortion happens.