Memory

The cognitive interview was developed by Fisher & Geiselman (1992) as a series of memory retrieval and communication techniques to improve recall in police interviews.

There is conflicting evidence about the effect of stress and anxiety on the accuracy of EWT (i.e., the accuracy of witness recall). Many psychologists believe that anxiety affects the accuracy of [...]

The Effects of Misleading Information on the Accuracy of Eyewitness Testimony (Leading Questions) Description, AO1 Research into the Accuracy of Eyewitness Testimony Leading Questions: Loftus and [...]

The failure to retrieve memories (retrieval failure), with explanations of forgetting focusing on the idea that we may not be able to remember a memory because;

a) it is no longer available in [...]

Baddeley & Hitch's (1974) Working Memory Model (WMM) arose out of criticisms aimed at the Multi-Store Model (MSM), particularly the idea that STM was a unitary store - to test this Baddeley and [...]

(1) Episodic memory (part of the explicit LTM (conscious))

• Personal experiences [...]

AO1, Definition of 'Memory' The process by which we retain information about events that have happened in the past. This includes fleeting (short term) memories as well as memories that last for [...]

Description, AO1, Explanations of Forgetting Explanations of forgetting; Interference (Proactive and Retroactive) Cue-dependent forgetting (Context and State) Interference (IT) The Interference [...]