16 mark essay

• Discuss Working Memory Model (16marks):

  AO1: Baddeley STM isn't unitary, Slave Systems

  • Baddeley and Hitch dual-task study
  • Low ecological validity - artificial methods
  • KF
  • Central executive too vague
• Discuss the multi-store model of memory. (16)

  • AO1: capacity, duration and coding (SR, STM, LTM), info transfers after attention and rehersal
  • AO3: Baddeley, Bahrick, Sperling
• Discuss retrieval failure and interference as explanations for forgetting (16)

  • AO1: forgetting is the lack of cues, internal/external cues Godden & Baddeley
  • AO3: Godden & Baddeley, Mcdonald & Mcgeoch, unfalsifiable