Memory & Social Influence Flashcards

A model proposed by Atkinson and Shiffrin, suggesting memory consists of three stores: sensory register, short-term memory, and long-term memory.

Episodic (personal experiences), semantic (facts and knowledge), and procedural (skills and actions).

A theory of forgetting where one memory disrupts another, leading to forgetting. Includes proactive and retroactive interference.

A study on the effect of leading questions on eyewitness testimony, showing how wording can distort memory.

A type of social influence where individuals change their behaviour or beliefs to match a group.

A study investigating conformity using line judgement tasks, showing the influence of majority opinion.

A study on obedience to authority, where participants were instructed to administer electric shocks to a learner.

Compliance (public change, private disagreement), identification (temporary change), and internalisation (deep, permanent change).

A research method where different participants are used in each condition of the experiment.

Defining variables in a way that they can be measured or manipulated in research.