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AQA AS Psychology - Cognitive Psychology

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show How much can be held in memory  
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show Transferring items of info into code, creating a 'trace'  
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show Ps shown nonsense trigrams and asked to recall them after 3, 6, 9, 12, 15 or 18secs. During pause they performed an interferance task. They found when rehearsal is prevented, very little can stay in STM longer than 18secs.  
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show 392 Ps asked top recall ex-classmates (free-recall test). They were shown photos and asked to recall names of people shown (photo recognition test) or given names and asked to match them to a photo (name-recognition test).  
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Jacobs (1887) studied capacity of STM   show
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show Found the capacity of STM to be 7 plus or minus 2. He suggested 'chunking' is used to combine individual letters or numbers into larger, more meaningful units (eg. telephone numbers, acronyms)  
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show Acoustic coding  
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The type of coding mainly used in LTM   show
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Baddeley (1966) investigated coding in STM and LTM   show
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show Atkinson & Shiffrin's model of memory: contains SM, STM and LTM  
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show Baddeley & Hitch's model of memory: contains the articulatory-phonological loop, the central executive and the visuo-spatial sketchpad  
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Articulatory-phonological loop.   show
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show One of the 'slave systems' proposed in the WMM. Deals with temporary storage of visual and spatial information.  
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