Memory experiments and theories

Question 1

Atikson and shiffrins multi store model of memory

Answer 1

sensory –>attention

= STM (maintain rehersal) —> encoding rehersal

Question 2

Short term memory (STM)

Answer 2

capacity= 5-9
duration= 18 sec
encoding= acoustically
forgetting= decay or displace

Question 3

Long term memory (LTM)

Answer 3

capacity= limitless
duration= semantically 
encoding= semantically 
forgetting= decay or retrival failure

Question 4

Peterson and peterson

Answer 4

lab experiment
test the duration of STM
students would repeat a trigram and then count backwards from a number is 3s or 4s then recall the trigram

Question 5

peterson and peterson conclusion

Answer 5

information in the STM fades rapidlyand only 10% could recall after 18 sec

Question 6

Bartlett (1932) the war of the ghosts

Answer 6

tested the nature of reconstructive memory through telling an american old folk tale to students from Cambridge university

Question 7

serial reproduction

Answer 7

retell a story to another participant (Chinese whisper)

Question 8

repeated reproduction

Answer 8

asked to write down the story and recall it in several min, hours,days and years

Question 9

Bartlett’s theory of reconstructive memory

Answer 9

memories are like notes and when we recall them we retrieve them and elaborate on them using general knowledge
proposed the idea of ‘schema’

Question 10

Antagorade amnesia symptoms

Answer 10

difficulty in remembering and learning new things

Question 11

Retrograde amnesia symptoms

Answer 11

loosing memories