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Clive Wearing HM
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Showed how brain damage affects memory processing. Suffered from a brain infection - herpes encephalitis - affecting the parts of the brain concerned with memory. Left with memory span of only seconds (worst case of amnesia ever). Ability to perceive what he saw and heard remained, but he couldn't retain anything for more than a blink. Under the constant impression that he just woke up. Suffers from both anterograde and retrograde amnesia. Damage to hippocampus and some of the frontal regions. Episodic and some semantic memory is lost - can't transfer new information into LTM. Emotional and Implicit memory are okay - can still play piano and conduct.
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Bandura's Bobo Doll study (1967)
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children who observing an adult model attack a Bobo doll displayed nearly twice as much aggressive behavior as children who watched a nonaggressive model or no model at all
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Cole and Scribner (1974)
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Aim: Study the development of memory among tribal ppl in rural Liberia
Methods: Free Recall Task after overcoming language and culture barriers. Results: Educated industrial children used clustering more commonly, as did educated liberian children; nonschooled ppl improved scores very little and comprehended information better when presented in the form of a story; Similar results found in tests of children's memorization skills among mayan ppl of rural Guatemala. |
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Barlett: War of Ghost (1932)
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Aim: to investigate the effect of schema on participant's recall of a story.
Methods:Barlett used 20 english participants unfamiliar to the Native American culture. Participants were given a story concerning the Native American culture that they were to read and then repeat the story between intervals over different periods of times. Results: the original story had been reduced from 330 words to 180 and participants had changed certain phrases that were more relevant to their own cultures. |
