In this area you’ll find resources to make The Complete Companion books work even harder for you. We’ve included answers to the questions in the book and some of the pictures and diagrams used in the book.
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Answers for Chapter 1 Answers to the questions in the book Download Answers |
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- page 003 – An experiment to try on memory
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- page 004 – Results from study by Peterson and Peterson (1959)
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- page 005 – Do It Yourself No.1.1
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- page 006 – Testing the capacity of STM
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- page 006 – The digit span technique
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- page 007 – Commentary Corner – planning your essay
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- page 008 – The multi-store model
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- page 009 – The location of the hippocampus
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- page 009 – Stimulus material from Sperling (1960)
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- page 011 – Do It Yourself No.1.2
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- page 012 – Working memory model
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- page 013 – Do It Yourself No.1.3
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- page 016 – Results from study by Loftus and Palmer (1974)
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- page 017 – Results from study by Loftus and Palmer (1974)
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- page 018 – Yerkes-Dodson Law (1908)
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- page 019 – Results from study by Anastasi and Rhodes (2006)
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- page 020 – Do It Yourself No.1.5
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- page 022 – Mind map of mindmapping
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- page 023 – Stimulus materials from study by Bower et al. (1969)
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- page 023 – Do It Yourself
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- page 030 – Crossword
Hello
What is the difference between elaborative rehearsal and maintenance rehearsal?]
Thanks
A good question! Maintenance rehearsal is verbal rehearsal – when you repeat something over and over again to keep it in your short-term memory. Atkinson and Shiffrin initially suggested this kind of rehearsal was important for STM and also for transferring information to LTM. The levels of processing concept led them to revise their theory because research showed that long-term memories were more likely to be created by processing rather than simple verbal repetition. Elaborative rehearsal refers to doing something more complex with the information such as thinking about its meaning or rephrasing it.
I am really struggling to find movie clips that are suitable to show my year 12 class for a cognitive interview activity in the teacher’s companion. I need examples of crimes so that witnesses can be questioned using the cognitive interview technique. Do you have any recommendations?
Thanks!
Hello Gen
In fact there is a thread on Psychexchange at the moment on activities to use for eyewitness testimony, including some video links which might be useful. In the Digital Companion there is a video of a crime which could be used. I also found one clip (part of a bicycle safety ad) on You Tube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64T319-PhDI&feature=related. In fact any film clip would do – doesn’t have to be a crime.
Hope that helps, Cara
I used to use the opening scene of the cartoon film Batman ‘Mask of The Phantasm’
There’s a lot to recall….
Who threw the first punch?
Who had a moustache?
How many shots fired?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9I-ICtgylw
re: MSM model diagram p8 – can anyone explain the difference between the two retrieval arrows especially the ‘information retrieval’ arrow going from STM to LTM?
Hello D Jones
The idea was that, in order to retrieve information from LTM it needs to be brought into working memory and then output. You also might want to retrieve information from LTM to work on it in STM, for example when constructing an essay about the mutli-store model you would access some of the stuff you remember from before but might also use stuff you are reading as you write it.
Cara
Hi, please can you summarise the study on short term memory that Beardsley carried out.
Thanks.
Hello Marlya
I’m not sure what details you want – the essential summary is in the book – brain scanning techniques (MRI and PET scans) were used to monitor participants’ brains while engaged in STM (working memory) tasks. The area of the brain that was active was the prefrontal cortex. The reference for the article is ‘The Machinery of Thought’, Scientific American, August 1997, pp. 78-83 if you want to get the original to find out more information.
Cara