Memory

Question 1

Sensory register (coding)

Answer 1

In the form in which it is received. Sense specific. E.g. Hearing a noise is stored as sound.

Question 2

Sensory register (capacity)

Answer 2

All sensory experience.

Question 3

Sensory register (duration)

Answer 3

Less than half a second.

Question 4

Short-term memory (coding)

Answer 4

Mainly acoustically but other codes exist too.

Question 5

Short-term memory (capacity)

Answer 5

5-9 pieces of information. 7(+/-2) items.

Question 6

Short-term memory (duration)

Answer 6

Up to 30 seconds.

Question 7

Long-term memory (coding)

Answer 7

Mainly semantic but other codes exist too.

Question 8

Long-term memory (capacity)

Answer 8

Potentially unlimited.

Question 9

Long-term memory (duration)

Answer 9

30 seconds to a lifetime.

Question 10

Ecological validity

Answer 10

The extent to which a study can be applied to real world situations.

Question 11

Sensory registers

Answer 11

Information enters the system from the environment through our senses. All senses reach the sensory memory. There are several stores in sensory memory, called sensory registers. Each register deals with information from a particular sense. Sensory registers use a mechanism called attention to select the relevant sensory information.

Question 12

The multi-store model of memory

Answer 12

Proposed by Atkinson and shriffin in 1968. They saw memory as a flow through a system divided into a series of interacting memory stores. Each store has a different purpose and each varies in terms of it’s coding, capacity and duration.

Question 13

3 types of long-term memory

Answer 13

Episodic memory
Procedural memory
Semantic memory

Question 14

Episodic

Answer 14

LTM for events or episodes from our lives. Likened to a diary or a record.