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PSYA1: Cognitive Psychology Memory

The Nature of Memory Experimental Methods (Lab, Field, Natural). PSYA1: Cognitive Psychology Memory. Mrs Leach. The Specification. PSYA1 Memory What is A01 and A02?. What is AO1 and AO2?. Let’s apply this to a Donut…. A02 Application & Evaluation. A01 Knowledge & Understanding.

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PSYA1: Cognitive Psychology Memory

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  1. The Nature of Memory Experimental Methods (Lab, Field, Natural) PSYA1: Cognitive Psychology Memory Mrs Leach

  2. The Specification

  3. PSYA1 Memory What is A01 and A02? What is AO1 and AO2? Let’s apply this to a Donut… A02 Application & Evaluation A01 Knowledge & Understanding What is your opinion of the Donut? What are it’s strengths? What are it’s weaknesses? How does it compare to other cakes? What evidence is there for and against this Donut? Describe the Donut…. What is a Donut? What shape is it? What is it covered in? What ingredients does it contain? These questions are designed for you to demonstrate your knowledge and understanding of what a Donut is. You can do this in an exam by describing or outlining studies or theories. By doing this you are showing you know and understand! These questions are designed to develop your evaluation and critical thinking skills. You can do this in the exam by evaluating theories using strengths and weaknesses. You can also present research evidence to support or refute.

  4. To Start.. Imagine and discuss… You wake up one morning and you’ve lost your memory. Try to answer the following questions: • What do you normally do in a day that you would no longer be able to do? • What if you did not recognise your friends or family? • What experiences would you miss if you couldn’t remember TV programmes or news articles? • How could you plan your day if you forgot what you were thinking about a few minutes earlier?

  5. Success Criteria How will I know if I am learning? 1.Describe STM in terms of capacity, encoding and duration (AO1) 2.Describe LTM in terms of capacity, encoding and duration (AO1) 3. To provide evidence in the form of studies for each description. (AO2) 4.To explain what a lab experiment is and give advantages and disadvantages (AO3)

  6. What is Memory? Rehearsal Short Term Memory Long Term Memory Encoding Sensory Memory Encoding Retrieval Types of Memory

  7. What is Memory? A quick Experiment- results later!

  8. What is Memory? Evidence for STM and LTM Now or Later? The “Recency/Primacy” Effect (Murdock 1962) • Based on Murdock 1962 study. Laboratory experiment. presented participants with a list of words, one at a time, which they then recalled in any order (free recall). • Your teacher is going to read you a list of 20 words, your job is to remember as many of the words as possible, as soon as your teacher has finished reading them write them down straight away (silently, don’t discuss or talk)

  9. What is Memory? The “Primacy/Recency” effect You are now going to analyse the results. Your teacher will count up which words the class could remember.

  10. Now or Later? The “Recency/Primacy” Effect • Now plot your results on a graph: the X-axis will be word position and the Y-axis will be % recall. • Do you see a pattern? Does is look anything at all like this figure?: Now you are going to analyze the results of your memory study.

  11. What is Memory? • You should have found that words read first and words read last are remembered better than words read in the middle! WHY? Can you explain why this is in terms of short term and long term memory??

  12. What is Memory? Now or Later? The “Recency/Primacy” Effect • Explanation:This experiment provides evidence that there are 2 types of memory (short term & long term). • It is thought that memory is good for the words read last because they are still in short term memory (because you have just heard them) - this is the Recency effect. • And memory is good for the words read first because they made it into long term memory - this is the Primacy effect.

  13. Research Methods Link • Lab experiments 4.To explain what a lab experiment is and give advantages and disadvantages

  14. What is Memory? Short Term Memory • Capacity • How much can it hold? • Encoding • How is information stored? • Duration • How long does information last?

  15. Short Term Memory • Encoding: info enters the brain via the senses and is then stored in various forms. A stimulus can be encoded visually as a word or picture, acoustically (sound) or semantically- (knowledge about the meaning of the word) glove

  16. Capacity and Encoding STM Experiments

  17. Short Term Memory Capacity Chunking Enoding Click Here to Continue

  18. What is Memory? We are finding out about….. • Capacity of STM • Chunking in STM • Encoding in STM All this by participating in some simple experiments. Click on the forward button to proceed.

  19. What is Memory? Experiment 1- Capacity of STM • Before proceeding, you will need a pen/pencil and a sheet of paper. • When you go to the next page, you will be presented with a sequence of numbers, which will appear in the centre of the screen at one second intervals. • Try to memorise the numbers in sequence as they are presented. • When you hear a tone/see the word NOW appear, write the numbers down in the same order as they were presented, (serial recall), on the sheet of paper. • Click on the forward button to start Trial 1 of Experiment 1.

  20. 4 3 6 8 9 2 1 5 7 NOW

  21. How did you do? - see below • 5 7 4 8 3 1 9 6 2 • Miller, (1956) talks of ‘the magical number seven, plus or minus two’, meaning that: • on average, the capacity of STM is between 5 and 9 items of information. • Try the experiment again, this time with letters as the stimulus material, writing them down in the same order as they were presented, when you see the word NOW appear. You will need a fresh sheet of paper. • Click on the forward button to start Trial 2 of Experiment 1.

  22. What is Memory? Q S A E R B H K T NOW

  23. Difficult, isn’t it? - Answers below • Q A H E R S B K T • You probably found that you remembered between 5 and 9 items, digits or letters, on each trial, in line with Miller’s (1954) findings. • Now try Experiment 2 - click on the forward button for details.

  24. What is Memory? Experiment 2 • Before proceeding, you will need a pen/pencil and a fresh sheet of paper. • When you go to the next page, you will be presented with a line of letters across the centre of the screen which will appear for approximately 10 seconds. • Your task is to remember as many of the letters as you can, in the order in which they were presented. • When you see the word NOW appear on the screen, write down on your paper as many of the letters as you can remember, in the same order as they were presented. • Click on the forward button to start Trial 1 of Experiment 2.

  25. G C E B T E C G C S E G N V Q A S NOW

  26. What is Memory? Difficult, wasn’t it? • Now try it again, using a fresh sheet of paper, obviously! • Click on the forward button to start Trial 2 of Experiment 2.

  27. What is Memory? GCE BTEC GCSE GNVQ AS NOW

  28. You probably did better this time - Answers below. GCE BTEC GCSE GNVQ ASWhy might this be? – (apart from having seen the stimulus material twice, an example of the practice effect). • Miller (56) found that the capacity of STM could be considerably increased by combining, or organising, separate ‘bits’ of information, e.g. letters or digits, into larger chunks. • Armed with your new-found knowledge, click on the forward button to try Trial 3 of Experiment 2, writing your answers on a fresh sheet of paper when the word NOW appears.

  29. 1 9 0 0 1 9 1 4 1 9 1 8 1 9 3 9 1 9 4 5 2 0 0 0 NOW

  30. What is Memory? How did you do this time?Answers below • 1 9 0 0 1 9 1 4 1 9 1 8 1 9 3 9 1 9 4 5 2 0 0 0 • Based on existing knowledge of the two World Wars of the 20th century, you might have been able to reorganise these 24 bits of information into 2CHUNKS, i.e.: • The dates of the two World Wars, 1914-1918 and 1939-1945; • the beginning and end of the 20th century, 1900 and 2000.

  31. Experiment 3 - Encoding in STM • As before, you will need a pen/pencil and a fresh sheet of paper. • When you go to the next page, you will be presented with a sequence of letters, which will appear in the centre of the screen at one second intervals. • Try to memorise the letters in sequence as they are presented. • When you hear a tone/see the word NOW appear, write the letters down in the same order as they were presented, (serial recall), on the sheet of paper. • Click on the forward button to start Trial 1 of Experiment 3.

  32. What is Memory? B V E G D C P T NOW

  33. What is Memory? How many did you get? - answers below. • B D T G C P E V • Remember, to count as correct, the letters must be in the correct sequence. • Armed with a fresh sheet of paper, click on the forward button to start Trial 2 of Experiment 3.

  34. What is Memory? W A F M L Q R Z NOW

  35. What is Memory? Howdid you do this time? - answers below • W L F Z M Q R A • You probably did better on trial 2, above. This is in line with previous research which has found that sequences of letters, (Conrad, 1964), or words, (Baddeley, 1966), which are acoustically similar, i.e. sound similar, are harder to recall from STM than sequences which are acoustically dissimilar. • Such acoustic confusion errors suggest that STM for such material mainly relies on a speech-based or acoustic code, even though the items were presented visually. • Conrad concluded that items are stored in STM as an acoustic code

  36. Short Term Memory Duration

  37. What is Memory? How long can you retain a new phone number before you have to write it down? …if you didn’t rehearse it? • The duration for which STM can retain info is temporary – a very short time • Not much research interest of this aspect, but… • …some findings suggest only a few secondsbefore it fades/decays (unless we rehearse it)

  38. What is Memory? Activity: duration of STM • This next experiment was first carried out by married couple Peterson & Peterson (1959) • Got students to recall combinations of 3 letters (trigrams), after longer and longer intervals. • During the intervals, students were prevented from rehearsing by a counting task! • On the next screen, you will see a trigram for a few seconds. • A 3-digit number will then appear in its place. When this happens, start counting backwards in 3’s from the number until you are told to stop. • Pens down….ready?

  39. What is Memory? 303 V J P

  40. What is Memory? 419 X G A

  41. What is Memory? 297 K Z Y

  42. What is Memory? After 18secs, fewer than 10% recalled correctly. • Their findings suggest that our STM fades in under a half a minute if we are not rehearsing it: After only 3secs, 80% recalled correctly. Recall got progressively worse as the delay grew longer!

  43. What is Memory? The Nature of Short and Long Term Memory Peterson and Peterson (1959) Investigated the duration of STM, preventing rehearsal Findings: 3 second interval (condition 1) – more words recalled 18 second interval (condition 6) – less recalled Conclusion: Information stays in STM for less than 18 secs if verbal rehearsal is prevented. Most actually disappears in the first few seconds.

  44. What is Memory? Short Term Memory • Capacity • How much can it hold? • Encoding • How is information stored? • Duration • How long does information last?

  45. What is Memory? Long Term Memory Our LTM is so big it is impossible to measure so it can hold and UNLIMITED amount of information • Capacity • How much can it hold? • Encoding • How is information stored? • Duration • How long does information last? They can last a life time so it depends how long you live!

  46. What is Memory? LTM- Capacity • Seems to be limitless- so why do we forget things? • Memories last a long time, however we are not always able to retrieve the info. • Evidence- the ‘tip of the tongue’ phenomena

  47. What is Memory? Storage Retrieval Encoding LTM

  48. What is Memory? LTM- Duration- Lasts a lifetime? Bahrick at al (1975) • Natural experiment 400 ppts aged 17-74 asked to list high school classmates, names, recognise classmates photos, recognise classmates names.

  49. What is Memory?

  50. What is Memory? LTM- Duration- Lasts a lifetime? • Bahrick at al (1975) Results • Test < 15 years since school recognition was 90% accurate for names and photos • Test = 48 years later, 80% names, 70% photos! • Free recall- less good • 15 years- 60% • 48 years 30%

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