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Understanding Memory: A Deep Dive into Cognitive Psychology, Slides of Research Methodology
An introduction to the field of cognitive psychology, focusing on the nature of memory. It covers different approaches to memory, including sensory stimuli, encoding, retrieval, and storage. The document also includes activities to test memory capacity and duration, as well as discussions on the role of psychologists and ethical considerations in memory research. Students are encouraged to carry out independent study and complete homework assignments.
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What is
Psychology?
The scientific study of experience and behaviour. What animals do, why they do it and how they feel
How Science Works
- Science answers real life questions – scientists seek and gain knowledge about the world around us
- Make a hypothesis
- Make a prediction
- Test the hypothesis
- Collect data/evidence
- Analyse data/evidence
- Evaluate evidence – does it support or not support the hypothesis?
Psychologists have
responsibilities
Will the discovery benefit humankind?
How much will it cost?
How will it affect individuals?
Will it affect the environment?
Is it ethical?
Independent Study
In order to cover the whole course and achieve success you will need to carry out some independent study:
Self Supported Study booklet has activities to complete throughout the year - this will be marked in class
Read around the subject – blog, internet, text, revision guide, use the topic booklet to read ahead.
- Create and keep a personal revision file (purple book)
- Look for and keep interesting articles on TV, internet and papers/magazines (bring them in to share).
COGNITIVE
PSYCHOLOGY
LO - Develop knowledge about The Nature
of Memory
BATs All must be able to outline the nature of memory in terms of duration, capacity and encoding of STM and LTM (E)
Most should be able to collect data to provide evidence for the nature of memory through experiments (C)
Some could analyse data and evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of memory experiments (A)
Cognitive Psychology
Study of thinking processes
Based on computer metaphor i.e. we try to understand the mind by comparing it to a computer:
Input Processing Output
Storage
Cognitive Psychology
Psychologists have done research and suggest the following is true for memory
Sensory stimuli (^) Encoding Retrieval
Storage
The Nature of Memory
Short Term Memory – STM
Memory of immediate events.
Lasts very short time and disappears unless rehearsed.
Long Term Memory - LTM
Memory for events that happened in the past, lasting from 2 mins to 100 years (lifetime).
Short Term and Long Term
Memory differ in 3 important ways
DURATION
CAPACITY
ENCODING
how long the memory lasts
how much can be stored
how it is transformed for storage
We will investigate those differences using previous research
Capacity
How many numbers could you remember before making a mistake?
Jot your digit-span on the board
What was the mean for the group?
Capacity - STM
3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
% recall
Length of list
Capacity - STM
Look at this list of words for 3 seconds:
Write down as many letters as
possible
MPCBBCMUFCUCASEUNATOIBM
CBBC MP MUFC UCAS EU NATO IBM
Now try and recall the next set of letters after 3
seconds.
Was it easier this time?
What strategies did you use to recall?
- (^) A rule can be used to chunk information