aqa a level psychology - year 1 Exam Questions and Answers With Complete Solutions

central executive -ANSWER - - acts as a filter to determine what information is received - limited capacity - baddeley found participants couldn't type letters and numbers on a keyboard whilst speaking random numbers - limited research phonological loop -ANSWER - - stores verbal information - divided into: - acoustic store: holds words heard - articulatory process: holds words heard and repeats them visuo-spatial sketchpad -ANSWER - - stores visual and spatial information - divided into: - visual cache: stores visual material - inner scribe: handles spatial information - baddeley found participants couldn't trace a capital F whilst explaining each angle as both use the VSS - the brain activates in the left hemisphere for visual information and right information for spatial information supporting the divided store episodic buffer -ANSWER - - created by baddeley as a general store - stores all types of information - limited capacity - a case study shows a person held 25 items in their STM which is more than the capacity of the VSS and PL suggesting a third store - very limited research to support this being here interference theory example and evaluation -ANSWER - information in the LTM gets disrupted with other information during coding which leads to inaccurate recall. 1. proactive interference: occurs when something previously-stored interferes an attempt to recall something new e.g. trying to recall a new phone number but getting confused with the old one 2. retroactive interference: occurs when newly stored information interferes with the recall of previously stored information e.g. trying to recall your new number plate but getting confused with the old one