AQA A AS Psychology January 8th 2009
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Re: AQA A AS Psychology January 8th 2009We've started with Unit 2. In my opinion social psychology is(Original post by Jamstar)
Lol, everybody hates attachment! I hope biological/social psychology will be more interesting. Individual differences should be good, but I thought that about cognitive psychology so...
, but physiological psychology and psychopathology are quite interesting.
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Re: AQA A AS Psychology January 8th 2009Cognitive Psychology
the multi-store model of memory
can someone help me on these questions please?
To what extent can we apply the findings of Jacobs to everyday life?
are there any problems with using letter or digit span as a measure of the capacity of short-term memory?
thankyou in advance!
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Re: AQA A AS Psychology January 8th 2009(Original post by LittleMissTwinkle)
Cognitive Psychology
the multi-store model of memory
can someone help me on these questions please?
To what extent can we apply the findings of Jacobs to everyday life?
are there any problems with using letter or digit span as a measure of the capacity of short-term memory?
thankyou in advance!
Yes if the amount for each aren't equal=i.e there are more letters than digits making it obviously easier to remember digits
they aren't very meaningful, and artificial so having another sort of stimulus as a measure of the capacity might show a greater STM capacity especially if it's more meaningful information and relates to everyday life(unlike remembering digits and letters, which don't relate to everyday life)
is Jacobs the guy who studied STM capacity..I think he is
well from what I've said above we really can't because he used digits and letters which is not something you'd do IRL-it lacks ecological validity.
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Re: AQA A AS Psychology January 8th 2009my mind has gone blank. i'm totally confused:/ thank you anyway Malsi!(Original post by Malsi101)
Yes if the amount for each aren't equal=i.e there are more letters than digits making it obviously easier to remember digits
they aren't very meaningful, and artificial so having another sort of stimulus as a measure of the capacity might show a greater STM capacity especially if it's more meaningful information and relates to everyday life(unlike remembering digits and letters, which don't relate to everyday life)
is Jacobs the guy who studied STM capacity..I think he is
well from what I've said above we really can't because he used digits and letters which is not something you'd do IRL-it lacks ecological validity.
hope that helps :O
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Re: AQA A AS Psychology January 8th 2009(Original post by LittleMissTwinkle)
all of it
Due to your talking about multi-store model and questions about Jacobs and capacity I assume it was about Jacobs' 1887 study into the capacity of STM:
http://www.psypress.com/pip/resource...pup=ch09-rs-01
Now remember he used more letters than digits making it easier for digits to be recalled.
It lacks ecological validity (it's artificial)as remembering numbers and letters isn't something you'd do irl,is it? So therefore if he had used another stimulus(another measurable thing that would relate to everyday life) then it might have shown STM's capacity to be greater?
get it?
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Re: AQA A AS Psychology January 8th 2009Oh! haha(Original post by Malsi101)
Due to your talking about multi-store model and questions about Jacobs and capacity I assume it was about Jacobs' 1887 study into the capacity of STM:
http://www.psypress.com/pip/resource...pup=ch09-rs-01
Now remember he used more letters than digits making it easier for digits to be recalled.
It lacks ecological validity (it's artificial)as remembering numbers and letters isn't something you'd do irl,is it? So therefore if he had used another stimulus(another measurable thing that would relate to everyday life) then it might have shown STM's capacity to be greater?
get it?
If you have any q's feel free to ask via PM or add me on msn if you like
now i get it! thank you Malsi! i shall rep you!xx
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Re: AQA A AS Psychology January 8th 2009basically I've answered both in one...
To what extent can we apply the findings of Jacobs to everyday life?
Not greatly as like I said remembering digits and letters is not something you'd do IRL, it lacks ecological validity.
are there any problems with using letter or digit span as a measure of the capacity of short-term memory?
yes because using digits and letters as a measure of STM capacity is not that valid due to it not being a great stimulus for STM - and not being very MEANINGFUL to everyday life(like I said remebering digits and letters is not something you'd do in everyday life) so therefore if there was to be another measure that was more meaningful it might show STM's capacity to be greater than Jacobs made out
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Re: AQA A AS Psychology January 8th 2009(Original post by Malsi101)
basically I've answered both in one...
To what extent can we apply the findings of Jacobs to everyday life?
Not greatly as like I said remembering digits and letters is not something you'd do IRL, it lacks ecological validity.
are there any problems with using letter or digit span as a measure of the capacity of short-term memory?
yes because using digits and letters as a measure of STM capacity is not that valid due to it not being a great stimulus for STM - and not being very MEANINGFUL to everyday life(like I said remebering digits and letters is not something you'd do in everyday life) so therefore if there was to be another measure that was more meaningful it might show STM's capacity to be greater than Jacobs made out
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Re: AQA A AS Psychology January 8th 2009Privation is never forming a bond with a caregiver. Rutter claimed this is worse than deprivation. He provided evidence in the case of The Czech twins and Genie who never formed emotional bonds with their parents and were treated cruelly and had little social or intellectual stimulation.
Genie never seemed to fully recover but the Czech twins did; possibly due to them forming bonds with each other and being discovered earlier giving time for them to recover and improve on such horrific experiences.
However this evidence is not exactly reliable due to us not knowing exactly what happened;what if there were even a brief bond? So more scientific controlled evidence is needed however this would be unethical to conduct!
It is hard to generalise the findings due to them being case studies.
There is mixed results as to how much a person can recover from privation.
And there weren't just maternal deprivation involved; they also had little intellectual/social stimulation so you have to take those factors into account!
Hope that helps!
It sure as hell helped with my revision; all that came from the top of my head
. There is just an impossible ammount to learn and if a question comes up on privation then I'm stuffed.
but I was being stupid lol. Gah it's just non stop revision for me 
