Cognitive Psychology: Memory

I want you to imagine looking at your house. Now, i would like you to count how many windows you have. Just figure it out for me.

Now here is a secret. I dont really care how many windows you have in your house. What i would like you to consider is what actually went on inside your head when you were trying to retrieve those memories. How did you go about it? Were you standing outside your house looking in? Or were you inside your house and you were moving from room to room? Did you ever take into account what was going on in your head or did you just do it naturally? Infact, how on earth did it even get into your head in the first place?


This is what we study in Cognitive Psychology: Memory


I will now just outline some key parts of the following chapter, so that you can go off and do your own research, if i have not posted anything on that subject yet.


Models Of memory:

Here i wish to study the two main models of memory:

-The Multi Store Model (MSM), including the concepts of encoding, capacity, and duration.
Along with strengths and weaknesses of the model.

-The Working Memory Model (WMM), including its strengths and weaknesses.


Memory in Everyday life:

-Eyewitness testimony (EWT) and factors affecting the accuracy of the EWT, inculding anxiety and age of witness.

-Misleading information and the use of the cognitive interview.

-Stratagies for memory improvement.