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All key studies from Memory AQA

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Miller   Used a serial recall task to determine STM capacity and found that most people could remember between 5-9 items (magic number 7)  
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Peterson & Peterson   Found that 90% of participants could remember a 3-consonant trigram after 3 seconds, but only 2% could recall it after 18 seconds  
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Bahrick   Investigated the duration of LTM by asking people to recall people from their high school. Even after 48 years, they scored 70% on photo recall  
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Baddeley   Found that STM and LTM are coded differently - STM are coded acoustically and LTM coded semantically  
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Glanzer & Cunitz   Discovered the Serial Position Effect, where people are more likely to remember words at the beginning (primacy effect) and end (recency effect) of a list  
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Patient KF   Had a motorcycle accident and afterwards had a normal visual STM capacity, but an abnormally low verbal STM capacity  
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Patient HM   Had his hippocampus removed and afterwards was unable to form new declarative memories (episodic and semantic), but able to form new procedural memories  
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Gathercole & Baddeley   Dual task technique. Found that we can do visual and verbal tasks simultaneously but not 2 visual tasks.  
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Underwood   Participants who memorised one list could recall 70% of it the next day, but if they memorised 10+ lists they only recalled 20%  
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Muller   Recall of nonsense syllables was worse for participants given a distraction task during the retention interval  
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Godden & Baddeley   Participants learnt word lists on ground or underwater (scuba). Recall was best if the conditions were the same as during learning - whether back on ground or underwater  
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Goodwin et al   Participants who were drunk when learning word lists were better at recalling them if they were drunk again. If sober at learning, recall was best when sober again  
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Loftus & Palmer   Altered the verb they used during questioning witnesses to a car crash. If using the word 'smashed', their speed estimates averaged 41mph, compared to 32mph for 'contacted'  
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Yuille & Cutshall   Used leading questions on witnesses to a real life armed robbery. They found that in real life cases, leading questions did not affect memory.  
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Gabbert   Showed different participants two videos of the same event and then allowed them to discuss what they had seen. 71% of them later recalled things that they couldn’t have seen  
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Loftus (or Johnson & Scott)   Studied the Weapon Focus Effect. 33% of participants correctly identified a man if he was carrying a knife, but 47% recalled if he carried a pen  
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Christianson & Hubinette   Studied real life bank robberies and, contrary to the Weapon Focus Effect, found that the best recall was from witnesses who experienced the threat close up  
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Kohnken   Compared cognitive and standard interview. Cognitive was better (though it also led to more incorrect information being reported).  
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