4.2 Memory

Covers AQA 4.2 explanations for forgetting: proactive and retroactive interference, and retrieval failure due to absence of cues (context-dependent and state-dependent forgetting).

Covers AQA 4.2 eyewitness testimony: how misleading information (leading questions, post-event discussion) and anxiety affect accuracy, using Loftus and Palmer and others.

Covers AQA 4.2 improving eyewitness testimony: the cognitive interview (Fisher and Geiselman), its four techniques, the enhanced cognitive interview, and evaluation.

Covers AQA 4.2 the multi-store model (Atkinson and Shiffrin): the sensory register, short-term and long-term memory, and the coding, capacity and duration of each store.

Covers AQA 4.2 types of long-term memory: episodic (personal events), semantic (knowledge and facts) and procedural (skills), with supporting evidence and evaluation.

Covers AQA 4.2 the working memory model (Baddeley and Hitch): central executive, phonological loop, visuo-spatial sketchpad and episodic buffer, with coding and capacity.