OCR GCSE Psychology - Memory - Key Concepts

Cognitive psychologists are interested in....

• Internal Mental Processes

• How we think and perceive the world and how our memories are formed

• The social behaviour we display when with friends

• The way we develop as humans, from babies into adults

Cognitive psychologists look at how the brain works compared to a

How many main stages of information processing are there?

• 3

• 4

• 5

• 6

What are the 5 main stages of information processing called?

• Input, Decoding, Storage, Re-watching & Output.

• Input, Encoding, Storage, Retrieval & Output

• Input, Encoding, Storage, Decoding & Output

• Input, Encoding, Decoding, Retrieval & Output

What is the role of the Hippocampus in memory?

What is Amnesia?

How many types of Amnesia are there?

• 2

• 3

• 1

• 4

What is Retrograde amnesia?

• The inability to form new memories.

• The inability to recall memories from the past.

• Both the inability to form new memories AND the inability to recall memories from the past.

What is Anterograde amnesia?

• The inability to form new memories

• The inability to recall memories from the past

• Both the inability to recall memories from the past AND the inability to form new memories

What is Global Amnesia?

• Both the inability to recall memories from the past AND the inability to form new memories

• The inability to recall memories from the past

• The inability to form new memories