AQA GCSE Psychology - Memory Unit 1.1

AQA GCSE Psychology - Memory Unit 1.1 Complete Resources

5 Presentation slides (Approximately 10-15 lessons) including tasks and activities, learning outcomes checklist and worksheets

Specification Details:

• Different types of memory: episodic memory, semantic memory and procedural memory.
• How memories are encoded and stored.
• The multi-store model of memory: sensory, short term and long term.
• Features of each store: coding, capacity, duration.
• Primacy and recency effects in recall: the effects of serial position.
• Murdock’s serial position curve study.
• The Theory of Reconstructive Memory, including the concept of ‘effort after meaning’.
• Bartlett’s War of the Ghosts study.
• Factors affecting the accuracy of memory, including interference, context and false memories.