Memory

Question 1

How is the sensory register coded?

Answer 1

Sensorily

Question 2

How is the short term memory coded?

Answer 2

Acoustically

Question 3

How is the long term memory coded?

Answer 3

Semantically

Question 4

What is the capacity of the sensory register?

Answer 4

Unlimited

Question 5

What is the capacity of the short term memory?

Answer 5

7 +/- 2

Question 6

What is the capacity of the long term memory?

Answer 6

Potentially unlimited

Question 7

What is the duration of the sensory register?

Answer 7

200-500 ms

Question 8

What is the duration of the short term memory?

Answer 8

18-30 seconds

Question 9

What is the duration of the long term memory?

Answer 9

Potentially forever

Question 10

A study for how the long term memory is coded

Answer 10

Bahrick et al (1975)

Remembering faces of classmates 50 years later

Question 11

The multi-store model of memory

Answer 11

Atkinson and shiffrin (1968,1971)

Stimulus - Sensory register - short term memory - long term memory

Through rehearsal and retrieval you can bring things back from your LTM and revise

Question 12

The modalities

Answer 12

Iconic - eyes 
Echoic - ears 
Haptic - hands
Taste - mouth 
Olfactory - nose

Question 13

Types of long term memory

Answer 13

• Episodic - our ability to recall events - a conscious effort to recall
• semantic - less personal and more about facts we share
• procedural - memory for actions, or skills (how we do things) - can recall without conscious awareness or much effort

Question 14

What’s are the different types of memory stored in the different parts of the brain?

Answer 14

• episodic and semantic memories were recalled from the prefrontal cortex
• the left prefrontal cortex for recalling semantic memories
• the right prefrontal cortex for recalling episodic memories