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Memory Flashcards

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What is Coding?

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The way in which information is processed into memory. This usually occurs acoustically or semantically.

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What is Storage?

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The retention of information in memory. The storage of information may be temporary or permanent.

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What is Retrieval?

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Accessing information stored in memory

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What is Duration?

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The length of time information is stored.

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What is Capacity?

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The amount of information that can be stored.

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What does Semantically mean?

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Remembering something by meaning.

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What does Acoustically mean?

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Remembering something by sound.

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What is Memory?

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What is LTM?

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Long term memory

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What is STM?

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Short term memory

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What area did Miller research in 1956?

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STM Capacity

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When did Miller conduct research into Capacity?

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1956

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What Method did Miller use in 1956?

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The digit span technique

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Describe the digit span technique…

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-Reading a series of digits that get progressively longer.
-Asking participants to immediately repeat the set in the correct order.

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What did Miller find from his research into STM Capacity in 1956?

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On average participants were able to recall a set of 5-9 digits.

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True or False - STM has an unlimited capacity

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False, it is limited

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What is a stimulus?

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Any object or event that elicits a sensory or behavioural response in an organism

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What was the first model of memory?

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The Multi-store Model

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What is the duration for LTM?

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Up to a lifetime

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What is the capacity for LTM + STM

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LTM: Unlimited. STM: 7 +/-2, unless find a way to chunk items.

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Define LTM (Long-Term-Memory)

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Your memory of events that have occurred in the past. This lasts anywhere from 2 minutes to a lifetime.

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Define Sensory Register (SR)

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The place where information is held at each of the senses.

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