Psychology "Outline and evaluate the multi-store model of memory" (12 marks) The multi-store model of memory‚ was first described by Atkinson and Shiffrin(1968)‚ and suggested that memory consisted of three seperate stores‚ the sensory memory store‚ the short-term memory (STM) store and the long-term memory (LTM) store.They also presented a diagram to represent this and according to this model‚ memory is portrayed as a flow of information through a system of fixed stages‚ beginnging with
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combat fatigue during World War two‚ civil rights workers‚ and American Indians. It was these studies which led Erikson to believe that Freud misjudged some important dimensions of human development. Throughout this essay‚ Erikson’s psychosocial model will be explored‚ discussed and evaluated interms of it’s concepts‚ theories and assumptions. The theoretical underpinning will be discussed with reference to the nature versus nurture debate and also the continuity versus discontinuity argument. It
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Critically evaluate essentialist approaches to the theorisation of sexuality. Essentialism argues that there are ‘real’ and categorical sexualities in the world and that each of these sexualities can be described definitively according to a set of characteristics or properties‚ e.g. a man that has sexual intercourse with another man fits the category of homosexual (Hammack‚ 2005). This conceptualises sexuality in terms of ‘sexual orientation’‚ assuming that no sexual orientation; whether homosexual
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For the Functionalists‚ education performs a positive function for all individuals in society and has a powerful influence over it. The education system serves the needs of an industrial society by providing a more advanced division of labour; socialising new generations into societies shared norms and values and‚ according to meritocratic criteria‚ allocates roles in. Education supposedly meets societies through three related economic roles; socialisation; allocation and vocational training.
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In Psychology‚ it is important to be able to critically evaluate a claim about human behavior. I evaluated many different articles in this course and had to determine if they are creditable or not. Critical thinking helped me throughout this course in order to prove creditability on articles discussing human behavior. Over time I gained more knowledge when it comes to evaluation a claim. This is an important skill to have and is extremely useful in this course. To begin with‚ my major writing assignments
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Cecilia Nguyen Evaluate two models of one cognitive process This essay will be discussing one particular cognitive process: the memory by evaluating two models‚ which are the Multi store model introduced by Atkinson and Shiffrin in 1968 and the Working memory model by Baddeley and Hitch in 1974. The first model is the multi store model. It was first proposed by Atkinson and Shiffrin in 1968 and is a typical example of the information-processing approach. According
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Multi store model of memory The idea of a multi store memory was discovered by Atkinson and Shiffrin in 1968 and argues that memory can be divided into three separate structures; (commonly referred to as stores) sensory memory‚ short term memory and long term memory. Information from the environment first enters the sensory memory also known as (sensory store) encoded through one of the five senses depending on the type of information. It remains in the sensory memory for duration of 2 seconds
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Outline and Evaluate strategies for memory improvement. (12 marks) The first main memory improvement technique is the use of verbal mnemonics that focuses around words. For example acronyms‚ (where a word or sentence is formed from the initial letters of other words) e.g. - UNICEF - The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund. Another technique is an acrostic (a poem or sentence where the first letter in each line/word forms the method used for the item being remembered). E-g Homework
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Outline and evaluate research into the duration of memory (12 marks) Peterson and Peterson researched into the duration of the STM. They used trigrams and asked their participants to recall them after a retention interval‚ the retention interval was different every time. They found that after 3 seconds participants could recall about 90% correctly but after 18 seconds only 2% could be recalled correctly. Peterson and Peterson concluded that the STM has a limited duration and when rehearsal is
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Running head: TWO FORMS OF DEDUCTIVE REASONING – ABSTRACT AND THEMATIC – AND THE RELATIONSHIP WITH WORKING MEMORY 1 Abstract The relationship between two forms of deductive reasoning - abstract and thematic - and working memory capacity were examined. Two forms (abstract and thematic) of the Wason selection task and the Ospan test for general working memory capacity were used. Seventy eight‚ third-year‚ distance psychology students were tested in a counterbalanced experimental design.
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