memory key words

Question 1

what is capacity?

Answer 1

how long information can be stored for

Question 2

What is duration?

Answer 2

How long information can be stored for

Question 3

What is coding

Answer 3

The way information is coded and stored

Question 4

What is the MSM

Multi-store-Model

Answer 4

Explaination of memory with three memory stores and how information is stored between stores

Question 5

What is sensory register?

Answer 5

information at the senses. hold accurate sensory information

Question 6

central executive

Answer 6

controls nd monitors all mental functions in the working memory

Question 7

Episodic buffer

Answer 7

Stores and receives information temporarily
Integrates to construct a mental episode of what is being expereinced

Question 8

Visuo-spatial sketchpad

Answer 8

codes visual information in seperate objects

Question 9

Working memory Model

Answer 9

explaination of memory used when performing a task

Question 10

Episodic memory

Answer 10

persoanl memories of events

Question 11

procedural memroy

Answer 11

memory of how to do things

Question 12

semnatic memory

Answer 12

shared memories of facts and knowledge

Question 13

interference

Answer 13

explaiantion of forgetting one memory due to one memory disrupting the rememberance of another

Question 14

proactive interference

Answer 14

past learning interferes currrent learning

Question 15

retroactive learning

Answer 15

current learning affects past learning

Question 16

cues

Answer 16

act a reminder for remembering a memory

Question 17

retrieval failure

Answer 17

happens in absence of cues
forgetting based on the inability to retrieve a memory that is inaccessible

Question 18

Eyewitness testimony

Answer 18

evidence shown in court based on someone who has witnessed the crime

Question 19

Leading question

Answer 19

a question by its form suggesting the witness what answer is desired to lead to them to report a desired answer

Question 20

Misleading information

Answer 20

supplying information that may lead a witness memory for a crime to be altered

Question 21

post-event discussion

Answer 21

conversation between interviwer and witness that can alter a witness memory for the event

Question 22

Anxiety

Answer 22

unpleasant emotional state accompained by increased heart rate and rapid breathing

Question 23

Anxiety

Answer 23

unpleasant emotional state accompained by increased heart rate and rapid breathing

Question 24

Cognitive interview

Answer 24

A police technique for interviewing witnesses to a crime, encourages them to recreate the original context of crime in order to increase accessibility of stored information