Outline and evaluate research into encoding in memory (8) A study by Baddeley was conducted in 1966. He did two experiments looking into the STM and LTM. In these two studies he gave participants four lists of words. These were a list where the words were acoustically similar another where they were acoustically different and one where they were semantically similar and the last where they were semantically different. They were read the lists and then given an interference task for 20 seconds
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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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Critically review the ways in which the Belbin model of team roles might be applied to the recruitment and selection of new team members like the ’John Lewis Partnership ’. Consider and outline both its strengths and limitations. Table Of Contents - Introduction Page 1 - Meredith Belbin’s model of team roles Page 1 - Applying Belbin’s model to the selection process Page 1 - Efficiency of application; the strengths and limitations Page 1-2 - Conclusion Page 2
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Outline and Evaluate Models of Memory. (12 Marks) There are roughly four models of memory in total‚ but two stand out and are used in this particular specification. Atkinson and Schifrin’s (1968) “Multi-Store Model” is one of them. Their model suggests that the memory consists of three stores‚ a sensory store‚ a short-term store and a long-term store; all three have a specific and relatively inflexible function. It stressed that information for our environment such as the visual or auditory
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Understanding the principles and practices of assessment. Unit 001 1.5: Compare the strengths and limitations of a range of assessment methods with reference to the needs of individual learners. Each learner has their own specific requirements regarding the process in which they are able to produce evidence to meet the requirements through a range of assessment methods. In order to meet the requirements for each vocational qualification the assessor must first establish which methods of assessment
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analysing the interview of the south Asian women we can see that there are many limitations and strengths to an in depth interview. However we can see that overall strengths of an interview outweigh the limitations portraying to us that carrying out an interview is advantageous for the interviewer as well as the interviewee. Firstly we can see that the interview of the South Asian women was qualitative data. This is a strength as it provides us with a detailed picture as to why Indian‚ Pakistani and Bangladeshi
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Outline and Evaluate Biological Explanation for Mental Illness The Biomedical model of Mental Illness states that metal illness is caused by either a physical problem with the brain‚ for example that some schizophrenic patients have parts of there hippocampus missing. Genetics‚ meaning that you inherit a genetic pre-disposition to depression or some other mental illness as someone in your close family had that mental illness‚ or down to neurotransmitter (serotonin‚ dopamine...) imbalances in
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Utilitarianism- Journal Questions (Formative Assessment) 1a) What are the strengths of Utilitarianism? 1b) Utilitarianism has several limitations. Identify two limitations and suggest improvements to Utilitarianism that enable it to avoid these limitations. Utilitarianism is a consequentialist theory: it holds that we ought to act in whatever way has the best consequences (i.e. the greatest "utility"). For most utilitarians‚ this means maximising the good and minimising the bad. Utilitarianism
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The behavioural model suggest that all behaviours – including abnormality – is learnt. It suggests that we have very few innate characteristics that we are born with. According to the behavioural model there are three ways in which we learn‚ these include classical + operant conditioning and social learning theory. Classical conditioning is learning by associated‚ this is when we create a new stimulus response link by associating one stimulus to a response. For example little albert was conditioned
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Albert Bandura (born December 4‚ 1925) is a psychologist who is the David Starr Jordan Professor Emeritus of Social Science in Psychology at Stanford University. For almost six decades‚ he has been responsible for contributions to many fields of psychology‚ including social cognitive theory‚ therapy and personality psychology‚ and was also influential in the transition between behaviorism and cognitive psychology. He is known as the originator of social learning theory and the theoretical construct
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