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Cognitive Psychology Notes - Written by an A* Psychology Student

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  • PEARSON (PEARSON)
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  • Edexcel As Psychology Student Book Activebook With Cdrom

This booklet is a guide to help you study for the Unit 2 Cognitive Psychology section of the Pearson Edexcel A Level Psychology exam. These notes are my personal notes which I used to achieve an A* in my own A Level Psychology exam. Of course, this is only a guide – the notes made here are a star...

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  • September 4, 2019
  • September 4, 2019
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  • 2017/2018
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  • psychology
  • edexcelpsychology
  • edexcel
  • cognitive
  • cognitivepsychology
  • alevelpsychology
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  • pearson

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Considers the ROLE OF COGNITION IN HUMAN
BEHAVIOUR


E.G. PERCEPTION, MEMORY, ATTENTION
compares cognitive processing to computer
processing
COGNITIVE
MULTI-STORY MEMORY MODEL Suggests memory is either short-term or long-term

Considers how components of memory deal with auditory, visual and episodic
THEORIES
WORKING MEMORY MODEL
information
RECONSTRUCTIVE MEMORY Suggests memory is a reconstruction of past events which relies on schemas and results
in confabulation
TULVING’S LONG TERM MEMORY Suggests long term memory has separate episodic and semantic memory

GLANZER AND CUNITZ (1966) Free recall test that found evidence of the serial position effect
STUDIES
BADDELEY (1966b) Found short term memory relies on acoustic encoding and long term memory relies on semantic encoding

SCHMOLK ET AL (2002) Found that damage to the anterolateral temporal cortex is consistent with a loss of semantic
knowledge
HM (1953) Suffered anterograde amnesia after bilateral removal of hippocampus

METHODS
EXPERIMENTS CASE STUDIES

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