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.

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