Memory

Question 1

Identify the recall intervals in Peterson and Peterson (1959)

Answer 1

3,6,9,12,15,18 seconds

Question 2

Identify the numbers that participants counted back in before recalling information in Peterson and Peterson (1959)

Answer 2

3’s or 4’s

Question 3

Describe the difference between ‘attention’ and ‘rehearsal’ as part of the memory process.

Answer 3

Attention is when a person notices and is interested in a
particular stimulus whereas rehearsal is not because
rehearsal is when a person repeats information again and
again in an effort to remember it

Question 4

Explain Multi-store model of memory

Question 5

Short term memory capacity and duration

Answer 5

short term memory can hold to a total of 7 pieces of information and can hold those 7 pieces of information for 15-30 seconds without rehearsal.

Question 6

Long term memory capacity and duration

Answer 6

long term memory can hold a unlimited amount of information and can hold those information forever

Question 7

how do we forget information in short term memory

Answer 7

Displacement: when new information pushes out older information as we exceed short term memory capacity

Question 8

how do we forget information in long term memory

Answer 8

Interference: when older information gets overwritten by new information