Cognitive Psychology Revision Notes

Key definitions:
 Encoding- the way information is changed so that it can be stored. 3
main ways (Visual, Acoustic and Semantic)
 Semantic-meaning
 Storage- deals with different information being stored for different
kengths of time
 Capacity- how much memory is sotred.
 Duration- how long a memory is stored
 Retrival- accesing and recovering memories
 Motor skills- physical skills
 Schema- past events or experiences
 Cognitive- Thought process
Studies and GRAVE
Schmolck et al Bartlett (1932) Darling et al
(2007) (2007)
Generalisability

Reliability

Applications

Internal Validity

External Validity

Ethics
 Key things that could come up
Schmolck Darling Bartlett

Aims

Procedure

Results

Conclusions