STUDIES OF MEMORY Psychology GCSE / iGCSE; GCE A Level / iA Level / IB

STUDIES OF MEMORY Psychology GCSE / iGCSE; GCE A Level / iA Level / IB

A teacher resource booklet containing a selection of key studies that are commonly used in specifications and/or as supporting evidence for the main theories.

This is an editable 16-page word document whereby you can select content relevant to your programme of study. It is aimed upwards to A Level / IB standard, so for GCSE you can ‘cut-down’. All the content includes the main principles of the study in terms of their aim, procedure, results and conclusions.

Studies included are:

1 Bartlett (1932) War of the Ghosts
-Reconstructive memory
-Schema Theory
-Application to memory inaccuracy

2 Saacchi et al. (2007) Changing history: doctored photographs affect memory for past public events.
-Reconstructive memory
-Schema Theory
-Application to pretrial publicity

3 Loftus and Palmer (1974) Reconstruction of auto mobile destruction: An example of the interaction between language and memory.
-Reconstructive memory
-Schema Theory
-Application to eyewitness testimony

4 Steyvers and Hemmer (2012) Reconstruction from memory in naturalistic environments.
-Reconstructive and Episodic memory
-Schema Theory
-Application to memory inaccuracy

5 Peterson and Peterson (1959) Short-term Retention of Individual Verbal Items
-Multi-store model of memory
-Short-term memory duration
-Application to rehearsal and interference

6 Bahrick et al. (1975) Fifty years of memory for names and faces: A cross-sectional approach
-Multi-store model of memory
-Long-term memory duration
-Application to forgetting

7 Murdock (1962) The serial position effect of free recall
-Multi-store model of memory
-Primacy and recency effect
-Application to rehearsal and STM/LTM distinction

8 Baddeley (1966b) Working memory model: The influence of acoustic and semantic similarity on long-term memory for word sequences.
-Multi-store model of memory
-Encoding in short-term and long-term memory
-Application to learning information

From this you can adapt to your own student booklets, handouts and powerpoints to meet your own teaching styles and course structures.

To match with this I also have a THEORIES OF MEMORY booklet containing the main features of the most common theories and explanations of memory.

(If you are looking for AQA GCSE Psychology I have a separate full resource pack available that includes all booklets, handouts and ready made powerpoints).