Memory in STM and LTM

Question 1

What is encoding

Answer 1

The way that sensory input is represented by short term memory (e.g sound)

Question 2

What’s duration

Answer 2

The length of time that information can be held in STM

Question 3

Capacity of short term memory

Answer 3

7+- 2 chunks (Miller magic number)

Question 4

What did Miller (1956) do in his study

Answer 4

Tested participants digit span

Question 5

How long is duration of STM

Answer 5

About 20 seconds (Peterson and Peterson 1959)

Question 6

What did Peterson and Peterson (1959) do?

Answer 6

Shown trigrams and then asked to count backwards(prevent rehearsal)and then to recall the trigram

Question 7

How do we encode information?

Answer 7

Visual and acoustic

Question 8

Who’s studies support each other’s ideas about encoding

Answer 8

Conrad and Baddeley

Question 9

What did Conrad (1964) do?

Answer 9

Showed either acoustically similar or dissimilar sequences

Question 10

What is capacity

Answer 10

The amount of information that can be stored in our memory

Question 11

Baddeley did a similar study in 1966 on encoding which ……. Conrads study

Answer 11

Supported

Question 12

How big is capacity of long term memory?

Answer 12

Most psychologists agree their no limit so it’s unlimited

Question 13

LTM for capacity was shown by Clive Wearing because

Answer 13

He could still remember some things from LTM but not others

Question 14

What’s the duration of LTM

Answer 14

A life time

Question 15

Who studied duration of LTM

Answer 15

Bahrick et al. (1975)

Question 16

What did Bahrick et Al.(1975) do for their study for LTM duration

Answer 16

They gathered graduates from an American high school over 50 year period.
They were split up into two groups:
1. Recognition group-match up names with photos
2. Recall group- asked to recall names without list

Question 17

How do we Encode LTM

Answer 17

Mainly semantic

Question 18

Which type of memory did Baddeley (1966) study affect

Answer 18

Both STM and LTM