Unit outcomes

Unit 1  - Memory 

To know and understand :

Models of memory 

- The multi-store model including the concepts of encoding, capacity ad duration. Strengths and weaknesses of the model


The multi-store model

• What is a model?
• Sensory memory
• Short-term and Long-term memory
• Capacity 
• Duration 
• Encoding
• Strengths and weaknesses of the multi-store model

- The working memory model memory including its strengths and weaknesses


The working memory model

• What is working memory?
• The components of the working memory model 
• Strengths and weakness of the working memory model

Memory in everyday life

- Eyewitness testimony and factors affecting the accuracy of EWT, including anxiety, age of witness. 

- Misleading information and the use of the cognitive interview


Eyewitness testimony

• Other factors affecting accuracy of EWT
• The effects of misleading information of the accuracy of EWT
• How to improve the accuracy of EWT

Strategies for memory improvement.

• The role of organisation
• The role of attention and practice