Features of Memory

Question 1

Who did the study into encoding STM and LTM with acoustically similar and dissimilar words and semantically similar and dissimilar words?

Answer 1

Baddley

Question 2

What is coding?

Answer 2

How information is changed so it can be stored in memory.

Question 3

What is an evaluation for baddley’s study on coding?

Answer 3

Artificial stimulus.

Question 4

What is the capacity for STM?

Answer 4

7 plus or minus 2

Question 5

What is the capacity for LTM?

Answer 5

Unlimited

Question 6

Who made the digit span technique to measure the capacity of STM?

Answer 6

Jacob’s

Question 7

What is an evaluation for Jacob’s digit span test to measure capacity?

Answer 7

digit span increases with age.

Question 8

What is the duration for STM?

Answer 8

15-30 seconds

Question 9

Who used a trigram to measure duration of STM?

Answer 9

Peterson and Peterson

Question 10

What is an evaluation for Peterson and Peterson trigram study?

Answer 10

Artificial stimuli

Question 11

What is the duration of LTM?

Answer 11

Unlimited

Question 12

Who studied the duration of LTM using a yearbook and ex graduates?

Answer 12

Bahrik et al

Question 13

What is an evaluation for Bahrik et als study on the duration of memory?

Answer 13

High external validity and mundane realism.