3.3 Memory

Question 1

What’s STM?

Answer 1

Short term memory which has a limited capacity

Question 2

What’s the capacity on STM?

Answer 2

Limited

Question 3

What’s the capacity on LTM?

Answer 3

Possibly unlimited

Question 4

What’s LTM?

Answer 4

Long term memory

Question 5

How long do sensory memory keep?

Answer 5

Only for a few seconds

Question 6

What’s the five senses?

Answer 6

Sight, touch, smell, taste and hear

Question 7

How many items can your STM remember?

Answer 7

7 items -+2

Question 8

How might you increase STM?

Answer 8

By Chungking information

Question 9

What’s the serial position effect?

Answer 9

If shown a list of items, usually the items at start and end are remembered the best with middle getting worst remembered

Question 10

In serial position why can you remember start and end?

Answer 10

The start of a list goes to LTM, whilst everything near the end goes to STM memory

Question 11

What happens if memory is no longer LTM or STM?

Answer 11

It’s lost

Question 12

How do you transfer STM to LTM?

Answer 12

Rehearsal, organisation and elaboration

Question 13

What is working memory?

Answer 13

STM with processes, for example, carrying out simple cognitive tasks