Memory

Question 1

Multi-Store Explication Of Memory

Answer 1

The idea that information passes through a series of memory stores.

Question 2

Long Term Store

Answer 2

Holds a vast amount of information for a very long period of time. Up to a lifetime.

Question 3

Encoding

Answer 3

Changing Information so it can be stored

Question 4

Storage

Answer 4

Holding information in the memory system

Question 5

Retrieval

Answer 5

Recovering information from storage.

Question 6

Sensory Store

Answer 6

Holds information received from the senses for a very short period of time.

Question 7

Sensory Store Duration

Answer 7

Less than a second.

Question 8

Sensory Store Capacity

Answer 8

Very limited

Question 9

Short Term Store

Answer 9

Holds approximately seven chunks of information for a limited amount of time.

Question 10

Short Term Store Duration

Answer 10

Less than a minute.

Question 11

Short Term Capacity

Answer 11

Approximately seven chunks of information.

Question 12

Long Term Duration

Answer 12

Up to a lifetime

Question 13

Long Term Capacity

Answer 13

Unlimited

Question 14

Recency Effect

Answer 14

Information received later is recalled better than earlier information because of STM.

Question 15

Primacy Effect

Answer 15

The first information is received is recalled better than the subsequent information because of LTM.

Question 16

Structural Processing

Answer 16

Thinking about the physical appearance of words to be learnt.

Question 17

Phonetic processing

Answer 17

Thinking about the sound of words to be learnt.

Question 18

Semantic processing

Answer 18

Thinking about the meaning of words to be learnt.

Question 19

Levels of Processing

Answer 19

The depth at which information is thought about when trying to learn it.

Question 20

Interference

Answer 20

Things we have learnt that make it difficult to recall other information that we have learnt.

Question 21

Retroactive interference

Answer 21

When information we have recently learnt hinders our ability to recall information we have learnt previously. When it’s harder to recall older information we have learnt.

Question 22

Proactive interference

Answer 22

When information we have already learnt hinders our ability to recall new information. When it’s harder to remember information we have recently learnt due to old information.

Question 23

Context

Answer 23

The general setting or environment in which activities happen.

Question 24

Anterograde amnesia

Answer 24

Being unable to learn new information after suffering brain damage.

Question 25

Anterograde amnesia

Answer 25

Being unable to learn new information after suffering brain damage.

Question 26

Retrograde amnesia

Answer 26

Loss of memory for events that happened before our brain damage occurred.

Question 27

Hippocampus

Answer 27

A brain structure that is crucial for memory.

Question 28

Reliability

Answer 28

In the context of eyewitness testimony, the extent to which it can be regarded as accurate.

Question 29

Leading Question

Answer 29

A question that hints that a particular type of answer is required.

Question 30

Reconstructive Memory

Answer 30

Altering our recollection of things so that they make sense to us