Memory

Question 1

What is Coding?

Answer 1

The format in which information is stored in the brain

Question 2

What is Capacity?

Answer 2

The amount of information that can be stored in the brain

Question 3

What is duration?

Answer 3

The length of time information can be held in the brain

Question 4

What is Episodic Memory?

Answer 4

Memory of life events

Question 5

What is Semantic Memory?

Answer 5

Memory of definitions and meanings (like a personal dictionary)

Question 6

What is Procedural Memory?

Answer 6

Memory of learned skills (like riding a bike)

Question 7

What is the Central Executive?

Answer 7

The component of the WMM that allocates ‘jobs’ to the three subsystems systems

Question 8

What is the Phonological Loop?

Answer 8

The component of the WMM that process audial information. Divided into the phonological store and the articulatory process

Question 9

What is the Phonological Store in the PL?

Answer 9

A store for what you hear

Question 10

What is the Articulatory Process in the PL?

Answer 10

Allows maintenance rehearsal

Question 11

What is the Visuo-Spatial Sketchpad?

Answer 11

The component of the WMM that processes visual and spatial information in a mental space (often called our ‘inner eye’)

Question 12

What is the Episodic Buffer?

Answer 12

The component of the WMM that brings together material from the other subsystems into a single memory and provides a bridge between working memory and long-term memory

Question 13

What is Interference?

Answer 13

Forgetting because one memory blocks another

Question 14

What is Proactive Interference

Answer 14

When old memories interfere with new memories

Question 15

What is Retroactive Interference?

Answer 15

When new memories interfere with old memories

Question 16

What is Retrieval Failure?

Answer 16

When we forget because we don’t have cues to prompt recall

Question 17

What is a Cue?

Answer 17

A ‘trigger’ of information that prompts recall

Question 18

What is Misleading Information?

Answer 18

Incorrect information given to an eyewitness (often after the event)

Question 19

What is a Leading Question?

Answer 19

A question that suggests a certain answer due to the way it’s phrased

Question 20

What is Post-event Discussion?

Answer 20

When witnesses discuss what they have seen with other co-witnesses

Question 21

What is Eyewitness Testimony?

Answer 21

The ability to remember the details of an event after it has happened

Question 22

What is anxiety (Topic : Memory)

Answer 22

A state of emotional and physical arousal where we feel worried and tense.

Question 23

What is the Cognitive Interview?

Answer 23

A method of interviewing eyewitnesses to help them to retrieve more accurate memories.

Question 24

What are the 4 steps of the Cognitive Interview?

Answer 24

1. Report everything
2. Reinstate the context
3. Reverse the order
4. Change perspective

Question 25

What factors can affect EWT?

Answer 25

• Misleading information
• Anxiety

Question 26

What are the 2 types of interference?

Answer 26

Proactive and Retroactive