Higher Psychology 2010-2011 :: Resources and Discussion Thread

Just go through the different stages and include a digram. Basically about how information constantly comes through into the sensory memory from the senses and if attention is placed upon it then it moves into the stm and then if rehearsed it moves into the ltm or it is forgotten.

Talk about what Atkinson & Shiffrin (1968) showed. Then include the advantages and disadvantages of the model and then supporting studies such as evidence that there is three definite stores shown by baddeley in with how the stm relies on acoustic coding (1986) and the ltm relies on semantic (1966).

Also you can talk about how Atkinson and Shriffin believed memories where stored in the ltm through rehearsal but Craik and Lockhart (1972) said it was processing rather than rehearsal - it's what you do with the information that leads to storage.

Hope this helps

btw our lecturer has said there is no model question..There was one last year ,but this year the question is about the nature of memory and then EWT or forgetting for the research question.

Nature of memory?

btw our lecturer has said there is no model question..There was one last year ,but this year the question is about the nature of memory and then EWT or forgetting for the research question.

Did he give you any hints about the conformity and obedience question?

we don't do that subject...just prejduice so sorry I'm not sure...
and yes nature means you explain encoding,storage and retrieval then we've been told we will have to connect it to ltm or stm...explain the duration,capacity etc...Then explain one piece of research to do with the nature of either.

Can you please give me an example of a research study to do with nature of encoding, storage or retrieval....

Baddeley 1966-study at both of ltm and stm's way of encoding...stm is primarly encoded acoustically while ltm semantically.

jacobs(1887) and miller(1956?) both found that for stm the capacity is only about 7-9.
brown(1958) and peterson and peterson(1959) both found through the use of nonsense triagrams that stm memory only lasts without rehearsal for about 18-30 seconds...

bahrick et al(1975) studied long term memory and found that for instance after 9 months of leaving school 90% of people could remember faces of classmates in photos and names etc while after forty years he found that people could remember 30% less for each category. ...basically meaning that memories seemed to fade ,but did'nt disapear...this could be due to the time of memory though...

lastly the capacity of ltm is hard to gauge...its practically unlimited...

btw our lecturer has said there is no model question..There was one last year ,but this year the question is about the nature of memory and then EWT or forgetting for the research question.

I'm going over Kohlberg's theory of moral reasoning and I am really really stuck. The 3rd level is "In the post-conventional level, individuals reason that some aspects of morality, such as regard for life and human welfare, should be upheld irrespective of convention or normative obligation." Um yeah, WHAT DOES THAT MEAN??? I do it on the internet so I can't go and ask any of the teachers tomorrow before the exam.

Looking at this thread makes me worry A LOT. i know nothing.

anyone have any good guesses about atypical behaviour tomorrow? so much to study that i've not looked at, so trying to pick the most likely stuff. bit hard to look at past papaers though, because i think (emphasise think) the arrangement has recently been changed??

Our teacher said to focus on definition of atypical behaviour, and on the Psychodynamic Approach to atypical behaviour, ie Freud and Little Hans, defence mechanisms etc!

Thanks for the reply

by definition do you mean the four definitions ? oh god, freud is geniounely the one thing i dread the most...

Did you remember those dates off the top of your head?