AQA GCSE Psychology: Factors affecting the accuracy of memory, interference (Lesson 9 of Memory)

AQA GCSE Psychology: Memory Topic

This contains all 11 lessons in the Memory topic for AQA GCSE Psychology. It also contains a Homework booklet, a Starter booklet and the entire Memory Workbooklet. Processes of memory: encoding (input) storage and retrieval (output) * Different types of memory: episodic memory, semantic memory and procedural memory. * How memories are encoded and stored. Structures of memory * 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. Memory as an active process * 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.