AQA GCSE Psychology: Memory Topic

This contains all 11 lessons in the Memory topic for AQA GCSE Psychology. It also contains a Homework booklet, a Starter booklet and the entire Memory Workbooklet.

Processes of memory: encoding (input) storage and retrieval (output)

• Different types of memory: episodic memory, semantic memory and procedural memory.
• How memories are encoded and stored.

Structures of memory

• The multi-store model of memory: sensory, short term and long term.
• Features of each store: coding, capacity, duration.
• Primacy and recency effects in recall: the effects of serial position.
• Murdock’s serial position curve study.

Memory as an active process

• The Theory of Reconstructive Memory, including the concept of ‘effort after meaning’.
• Bartlett’s War of the Ghosts study.
• Factors affecting the accuracy of memory, including interference, context and false memories.