PSYCHOLOGY

• Effort after meaning is making an effort to interpret the meaning of something in more familiar terms.
• False memories are memories that we can recall happening but did not actually occur.
• The primacy effect is that we are more likely to recall the first instance of information that we have heard or seen because it enters our long term memory.
• The recency effect is that we are most likely to remember the last instance of information as it is stored in our short term memory.
• The serial position effect is the tendency to remember the first item in a list better than the last.
• Long term memory (LTM) is encoded semantically, the LTM store has an unlimited duration meaning memories are stored here forever. And in order for information to enter the LTM, prolonged rehearsal is required.
• A limitation of the Model is that it is too simplistic, the model suggests that we only have one LTM and STM store although research suggests otherwise - that these stores are more complex. Another limitation of the model is that research from the 1950s used artificial memory tasks, eg; lists that do not represent everything our memory does. This is therefore not useful in understanding how our memory actually works.
• (Murdock's Serial Position Curve Study) Method - Participants are presented with a list of words (at a rate of one word per second) they are then given 90 seconds to try and recall the list.