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Psychology GCSE Unit 1: Memory

A quiz to the help you revise the topic of memory.
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Last updated: February 3, 2016
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Changing information so that it can be stored.
Encoding
Holding information in the memory system.
Storage
Recovering information from storage.
Retrieval
The idea that information passes through a series of memory stores.
Multi Store Theory
Holds information received from the senses for a very short period of time.
Sensory Store
Holds approximately seven chunks of information for a limited amount of time.
Short-Term Store
Holds a vast amount of information for a very long period of time.
Long-Term Store
Information received later is recalled better than earlier information.
Recency Effect
The first information received is recalled better than subsequent information.
Primacy Effect
Altering our recollection of things so that they make more sense to us.
Reconstructive Memory
Thinking about the physical appearance of words to be learnt.
Structural Processing
Thinking about the sound of words to be learnt.
Phonetic Processing
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Thinking about the meaning of words to be learnt.
Semantic Processing
The depth at which information is thought about when trying to learn it.
Levels of Processing
Things that we have learnt that make it difficult to recall other information that we have learnt.
Interference
When information we have recently learnt hinders our ability to recall information we have previously learnt.
Proactive Interference
When information we already learnt hinders our ability to recall new information.
Retroactive Interference
The general setting or environment in which activities happen.
Context
Being unable to learn new information after suffering brain damage.
Anterograde Amnesia
Loss of memory for events that happened before brain damage occured.
Retrograde Amnesia
In the context of eyewitness testimony, the extent to which it can be regarded as accurate.
Reliability
A question that hints that a particular type of answer is required.
Leading Question
A method of questioning witnesses that involves recreating the context of an event.
Cognitive Interview
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