AQA A level Psychology – Memory UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT Answers
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AQA A level Psychology – Memory
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AQA A Level Psychology – Memory
AQA A level Psychology – Memory
UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and
CORRECT Answers
Study of capacity of STM - CORRECT ANSWER- Miller (Immediate Digit Span Test)
Jacobs Support
Study of duration of STM - CORRECT ANSWER- Peterson and Peterson (Trigrams)
24 students given a consonant syllable and a...
AQA A level Psychology – Memory
UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and
CORRECT Answers
Study of capacity of STM - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Miller (Immediate Digit Span Test)
Jacobs Support
Study of duration of STM - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Peterson and Peterson (Trigrams)
24 students given a consonant syllable and a three digit number ie. THX 512.
They were asked to recall the consonant syllable after a retention interval of 3, 6 , 9, 12 or 15
seconds. During this interval they had to count backwards from their three digit number.
Participants were 90% correct after 3 seconds, 20% correct after 9 and only 2% correct after
18 seconds.
Suggesting it is less than 18 seconds.
Study of duration of LTM - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Bahrick (Free recall, photo
recognition and name recognition tests)
400 people of various ages were tested on their memory of high school classmates.
They were given a free recall to recall as many class mates as they could. Then they were
given 50 photos, some with people from their school year book. Bahrick found that recall
after 15 years of graduation was 90% accurate from photos, and after 48 years was 70%. With
free recall it was about 60% accurate and 30%.
Showing that it is possibly an unlimited duration for LTM.
Study of encoding - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Baddeley (Semantically and Acoustically
Similar/Dissimilar words)
Baddeley had lists of acoustically similar words such as: Cat, cab, can, map, mat, max etc.
And also semantically similar words: Huge, big, large, titanic, massive etc.
He found that participants had difficulty remembering acoustically similar words in the STM
and in the LTM struggled with semantically similar words.
He concluded that STM is largely encoded acoustically whereas LTM is encoded
semantically.
, Capacity of STM - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 7+_ 2 units
Capacity of LTM - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Potentially unlimited
Duration of STM - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 30 seconds
Duration of LTM - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- potentially unlimited
Encoding in STM - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Mainly acoustically
Encoding in LTM - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Mainly semantically
What does the MSM model suggest - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- It attempts to explain how
memory works
Memory Consists of multiple stores
There is a sequence between these stores
Evidence to support the MSM - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Glanzer and Cunnitz (primacy
and recency effect)
HM (LTM gone)
Beardsley (Prefrontal cortex for STM and Hippocampus for Ltm)
(Bahrick Peterson and Peterson, miller, baddeley)
Evaluate the MSM - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Too simple (but easier to understand)
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