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See whether a participant given non emotive interference in the middle of a memory test will score differently on the recall of a previously learnt list of words than a participant given emotive interference.
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AS Level Psychology Background Information: Memory is what we use everyday to register, store and recall information. Psychologists have found that are three main types of memory, (i) sensory memory, (ii) short term memory and (iii) long term memory. This investigation focuses on the transferral of information from short term memory (or STM) to long term memory. Miller (1956) found that STM has a limited capacity and duration, it can only store 7?2 items for up to 30 seconds. For the information to be stored for longer it must be transferred to long term memory and if this transfer does not take place information may be lost. Some psychologists believe that one reason that this information is lost is due to interference. This is where the memory of "what we learn may be affected by what we have learned, or have yet to learn." (Gross) Basically our memory of information we have...
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