MEMORY

Question 1

Coding

Answer 1

Format in which information is stored

Question 2

Capacity

Answer 2

Amount of information that can be held

Question 3

Duration

Answer 3

Length of time information can be held

Question 4

STM

coding, capacity, duration

Answer 4

Acoustic, 7 plus minus 2, up to 30 seconds

Question 5

LTM

coding, capacity, duration

Answer 5

Semantic, unlimited, up to a lifetime

Question 6

Sensory Register

Answer 6

5 senses such as vision (iconic store) and hearing (echoic store). Coding in the iconic store is visual and on the echoic store it is acoustic. The capacity of sensory registers is huge (millions) and information lasts for a very short time (less than half a second)

Question 7

Episodic Memory

Answer 7

memories of when the events occurred and of the people, objects, places and behaviours involved

Question 8

Semantic Memory

Answer 8

knowledge of the world., facts and our knowledge of what words and concepts mean

Question 9

Procedural Memory

Answer 9

knowledge of how to do things, memories of learned skills

Question 10

Central Executive

Answer 10

co-ordinates the activities is the three subsystems

Question 11

Phonological Loop

Answer 11

processes information in terms of sound

Question 12

Phonological Store

Answer 12

stores the information that you hear

Question 13

Articulatory Process

Answer 13

allows maintenance rehearsal to occur