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Psychology Student Memory Guide

The document summarizes Hailey Walton's responses to an assignment with 5 questions about memory. It discusses the three stages of memory - storage, encoding, and retrieval. It explains how eyewitness bias can influence memories and implications for court cases. It provides an example of semantic memory from the author's childhood teaching family technology skills. It summarizes two studies on how verb usage and questioning can distort memories. And it labels the parts of a diagram illustrating the relationship between long-term memory subdivisions.

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Psychology Student Memory Guide

The document summarizes Hailey Walton's responses to an assignment with 5 questions about memory. It discusses the three stages of memory - storage, encoding, and retrieval. It explains how eyewitness bias can influence memories and implications for court cases. It provides an example of semantic memory from the author's childhood teaching family technology skills. It summarizes two studies on how verb usage and questioning can distort memories. And it labels the parts of a diagram illustrating the relationship between long-term memory subdivisions.

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Hailey Walton

Professor Boone

Assignment #8

1. In your own words, list the three stages of memory and explain the characteristics of each
of the three stages in detail. Please remember to include the proper name of all three

stages.

The three stages of memory or storage, encoding, and retrieval. Storage is how we

maintain information over time. Encoding is the initial learning process. Finally, retrieval

is the ability for us to access information that we need, and when we need it.

2. Consider the Eyewitness Testimony reading; in what ways does bias influence our
memories, and what can that mean for someone in real life?

Someone else putting their information or opinion whether it is biased or not can affect

our recollection of how things may have occurred. This means that there are often

misinformed people in situations in court when people need the testimony of an

eyewitness. This can cause the person on trial to undergo serious punishment for

something that they might not have needed.

3. Select an event from your life that you have stored in your long-term memory, and clarify
whether it falls under the category of episodic, semantic, or procedural memory. Please

refrain from choosing an overly personal event.


A memory from my childhood that I remember is teaching my grandparents, and parents

how to use anything with technology. From computers, phones, to even the television.

This would be considered an example of semantic memory. I grew up knowing how to

work with technology, and it was a skill I had to teach my family how to adapt to it.

4. Based on the reading assignment on Loftus and Palmer, summarize the primary findings
of study #1 and study #2. Additionally, discuss the implications of these findings

regarding the accuracy of our memories.

The first experiment suggested that the speed was affected by the verb usage. Thai

implied the way speed affects the way we interpret things into memory. The second

experiment showed that memory is easily distorted by questioning, and interrogation

techniques. This refers to the fact that our memories can be altered, and they may not

even be correct.

5. Label the parts of the diagram below to illustrate the conceptual relationship among the
subdivisions of long-term memory (Atkinson & Shiffrin, 1968).

A- Long term Memory

B- Explicit Memory

C- Implicit Memory

D- Episodic Memory

E- Semantic Memory
F- Procedural Memory

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