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Psychology @ St. Bartholomew’s School

Psychology @ St. Bartholomew’s School. An Introduction to AS Psychology and the expectations of all AS students throughout their A2 career. What is Psychology? . Psychology is the science of mind and behaviour. The methods in science are applied to understand why we behave as we do.

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Psychology @ St. Bartholomew’s School

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  1. Psychology @ St. Bartholomew’s School An Introduction to AS Psychology and the expectations of all AS students throughout their A2 career

  2. What is Psychology? • Psychology is the science of mind and behaviour. • The methods in science are applied to understand why we behave as we do. • You will NOT learn what other people are thinking! • Covers a wide area including child development, mental illness and memory.

  3. Memory Experiment Replication

  4. Glanzer & Cunitz (1966) • Serial position experiment • PPs hear a list of words. Asked to recall them in any order (free recall) • Cond 1: immediate free recall • Cond 2: free recall after interference task • To obtain results, plotted position of each word in the list against how many of the PPs recalled it

  5. Primacy Effect: LTM Recency Effect: STM Without interference task With interference task Glanzer & Cunitz (1966) % recall by PPs Position in word list

  6. Glanzer & Cunitz (1966) www.psychlotron.org.uk • Serial position experiment • PPs hear a list of words. Asked to recall them in any order (free recall) • Cond 1: immediate free recall • Cond 2: free recall after interference task • To obtain results, plotted position of each word in the list against how many of the PPs recalled it

  7. Primacy Effect: LTM Recency Effect: STM Without interference task With interference task Glanzer & Cunitz (1966) % recall by PPs Position in word list

  8. Glanzer & Cunitz (1966) • Results: • PPs recalled more words at beginning (primacy) and end (recency) of the list • The interference task removed the recency but not the primacy effect • Implies that primacy words were stored somewhere different to recency words • We have two separate memory stores

  9. Experimental checklistHow would you conduct a memory experiment? • What would need to be included: • Standardised instructions • Operationalised variables • Competence • Ethical issues addressed • Informed consent • Right to withdraw • Debriefing • No Psychological or physical harm

  10. HW (No wikipedia) Use Openhive • Write up you G and C experiment • Sampling and ethics sheet • Research the following brain damaged individuals: • HM • KF • Clive wearing • You must write a summary of the memory deficit: • Whether it is short term (STM) or long term (LTM)

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