Monday, November 26, 2007

For those taking Paper 1 resit in January

Please read the health warning; THESE ARE MY MUSINGS ONLY! Just some ideas to help kick start and prioritise your revision: Possible questions for January include:

Essays for Memory:
1. Eye witness testimony (was not covered last season as essay) possible focus on reconstructive memory which has not featured in a while
2. The nature of either STM or LTM is quite possible since models were featured quite heavily last season across both essays and a and bs); can't be sure on whether STM or LTM
2. One alternative to multistore (multistore came up in May)
3. Emotional factors in remembering and forgetting (did not come up as essay though forgetting theories did)

Essays for Attachment:
1. Day Care
2. individual differences in attachment more likely and cross cultural possibly
3. Maternal deprivation hypothesis

A and Bs for memory:
1. Short term memory research (focus Petersons): quite possibly aims, conclusions, criticisms none of which featured in May.
2. Reconstructive memory study - Bartlett (1932) not featured in May 2007 but did in January.
3. Describe multistore model (not featured in short question since Jan 06)
4. Forgetting in LTM theories (cue dependent, interference, repression): not featured since Jan 06

Definitions have not been asked for explicitly for a while either so expect possibilities such as explain what is mean by leading questions, also comparison questions like differences between STM and LTM.

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