Keywords

• Anxiety


  Feeling of fear that occurs in response to a stimulus
• Capacity


  The maximum number of data a cognitive store can hold
• Central Executive (CE)


  • Monitors incoming data and is involved in decision making
  • Allocates slave systems to tasks and allows them to communicate
  • Attains balance between tasks by selectively attending to certain types of information
• Coding


  The form in which data is stored
• Cognitive Interview


  • Method of interview in which eyewitnesses are asked questions about the crime
  • Aims to improve the accuracy of recall, resulting in an accurate conviction of the perpetrator
• Context-dependent


  An explanation for forgetting that suggests the absence of cues in the external environment can cause one to forget
• Declarative memory


  Explicit memories that require a conscious effort to retrieve and are easier to explain to others than non-declarative memories
• Duration


  The length of time for which information is stored
• Encoding Specificity Principle


  Cues must be present during encoding and retrieval to help at recall. Absence of cues at encoding leads to forgetting
• Episodic Buffer


  • Added by Baddeley (2000) to facilitate communication between CE and LTM
  • Holds info combined from CE, V-SS, PL, and LTM
  • Capacity around 4 chunks
• Episodic memory


  Concerned with one’s personal experiences, time-stamped, explicit, and require conscious effort to retrieve
• Episodic memory


  Prefrontal cortex associated with initial coding, neocortex associated with consolidation and storage, hippocampus is where different parts of a memory from different brain regions meet to form an episode rather than recollection of separate events