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The process of synaptic transmission can be broken down into steps. First, the action potential (electrical energy) arrives at the axon terminal of the pre-synaptic neuron. This triggers the vesicles in t...

1. Procedural memory concerns motor skills and actions, such as riding a bike. Episodic memory concerns life events, such as a birthday party. 2. Procedural memory is non-declarative, meaning it is dif...

The first step is reinstate the context whereby the interviewer asks the eyewitness to mentally and physically imagine and recall the crime scene including environmental context of crime scene e.g. smell,...

An advantage of using qualitative data in psychological research is that it creates a richer and more detailed understanding of behaviours so that we can understand why people may act in certain ways and ...

Atkinson and Shiffrin proposed the multi-store model (MSM) as a description of the way information flows through the memory system. The model suggests that memory is made up of three stores linked by proc...