Memory - Coding, Duration, Capacity Flashcards

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What is Capacity?

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The amount of information that can be held in a memory store

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What is duration?

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The length of time information can be held in memory

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3
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What are the 3 types of memory?

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Sensory
Short term
Long term

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What is the capacity of LTM & how do losses occur?

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Considered limitless
Losses happen due to decay & interference

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What is the capacity of the STM?

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Limited - can hold a small amount of information before it’s forgotten

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What is the experiment demonstrated by Jacobs that tests the capacity of STM?

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Serial digit span study

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What was the procedure of the serial digit span study?

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Participants were given a long list of numbers and told to repeat them

TBC

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What did Jacobs conclude from the serial digit span study?

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Showed the average recall & capacity of STM was 7 digits

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What did Miller say about the capacity of STM?

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Suggests we can gold 5-9 (plus/minus 2) objects in STM

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What is displacement in memory?

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When the STM is full so new information that is received pushes out the old information & takes it’s place so it is forgotten

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How can the capacity of STM be improved?

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Chunking - grouping information together
E.g. 1984 instead of 1.9.8.4

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What is the duration of STM?

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Doesn’t last very long
Rehearsal keep the memory active
Verbal rehearsal can allow the memory to become long term

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What was the study performed by Peterson & Peterson on the duration of STM?

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24 Participants had a trigram & were given a number & had to count back from it in 3s for intervals of 3,6,9,12,15 or 18 seconds until they saw a red light appear then they recalled the trigram

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What did Peterson & Peterson find from their study?

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After 3 secs - 80% trigrams recalled correctly
6 secs- 50%
18 secs - 10%

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What did Peterson & Peterson conclude from their study?

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STM is limited to a duration of 18 seconds when rehearsal was prevented

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What are the strengths of Jacobs study?

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Controlled lab environment - good control of EVs
Evidence still used today even though quite old

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What are the limitations of Jacobs study?

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Controlled lab study - artificial environment
Lacks ecological validity - not generalisable to real life
Demand characteristics
Lacks temporal validity - study done 150 years ago

18
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What are the strengths of Peterson & Peterson’s study?

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real life application -> remembering phone numbers

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What are the limitations of Peterson & Peterson’s study?

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meaningless stimuli - lacking external validity

20
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What is the duration of the LTM?

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A lifetime

21
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What was the procedure for Bahrick’s study on the duration of LTM?

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Had 392 participants ages 17-74 from Ohio, recall people from their high school yearbooks using photo recognition & free recall

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What were the findings for the photo recognition?

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15 yrs after graduation - 90% accurate
48 yrs after graduation - 70% accurate

23
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What were the findings for free recall?

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15yrs after graduation - 60%
48yrs after graduation - 30%

24
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What was the conclusion from Bahrick’s study?

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The LTM lasts a long time

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What is coding?
The format in which information is stored in various memory stores
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What is acoustic coding?
The coding of the stimulus’ sound
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What is visual coding?
When the physical appearance of the stimulus is encoded into memory
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What is semantic coding?
When the meaning of the stimulus is coded into memory
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What type of coding is the STM associated with?
Acoustic
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What type of coding is the LTM associated with?
Semantic
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What research did Baddeley do on the coding of memory?
Gave different lists of words to four groups of participants to remember, participants shown origin words & asked to recall them in correct order Group 1 - acoustically similar Group 2 - acoustically dissimilar Group 3 - semantically similar Group 4 - semantically dissimilar
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What were the findings for immediate recall of the words?
Participants tended to do worse with acoustically similar words
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What were the findings for recall of the words after 20 minutes?
Participants tended to do worse with semantically similar words
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What did Baddeley conclude from his research?
Suggested information is coded in LTM