Memory Studies

3. To see if familiarity affects the accuracy of identifying faces. Psychology lecturers were identifies on security cameras.
4. Leading questions in eye witness testimonies. Asked if the car hit or smashed the other one.
6. To see if recreating the context will affect the accuracy of recalling an event. Participants were shown a police training film and interviewed about what they had seen. Some had the context recreated others didn't.
9. To see if rehearsal is necessary to hold information in the short term store. Participants had to learn sets of three letters.
10. To see if the recall of familiar stories changed like unfamiliar stories did. Participants had to recall their first week at university.
11. To see if stereotypes affect memory. Participants were told a woman was a librarian or a waitress and asked to describe her behavior.

1. To see if new learning interferes with previous learning. Participants had to learn one or two lists of words.
2. To see if when people were given something unfamiliar to learn would alter the information. Participants had to retell a ghosts story
5. To find evidence to support the multistore model. Participants had to learn lists of words.
6. Studied context. Participants had to learn and recall lists of words in and out of water.
7. An epilepsy patent had an operation removing two thirds of his hippocampus.
8. Levels of processing. Participants had to answer yes or no questions about words to see if the type of question asked had an effect on memory.