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According to Tulving, what are the three types of long-term memory?

Tulving stated the three divisions of long-term memory (LTM) are episodic, semantic and procedural. Episodic = memories of events, including the locations and people involved. These are recalled conscious...

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why does Badeley's study support the idea that short term memory was coded in echoic format?

Baddeley's study shows that participarts struggled to recall worlds from a list when they sounded similar, so one can assume it is because it has been coded as very similar sets of information, making the...

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What would you say is generally the ‘perfect’ model essay structure? E.g. theory mixed with evaluation or separately e.g theory first and evaluation after..?

The perfect model structure would see theory (the AO1 knowledge) being separate from evaluation, but should also show them linked to each other effectively.

For instance, when talking about the bio...

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Describe the three different types of long term memory.

Eposodic memory is memory for events we have personally experienced. For example, remembering what you got for your 8th birthday present. Eposodic memory is declarative.

Semantic memory is the memo...

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Explain the Fundamental Attribution Error with reference to research

The Fundamental Attribution Error occurs when a person overestimates the dispositional factors in someone’s behaviour and underestimates the situational factors. For example, if a student performs poorly ...

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