Memory Key Words

Question 1

encoding

Answer 1

the way information is changed so that it can be stored in memory

Question 2

duration

Answer 2

a measure of how long memory lasts before it is no longer available

Question 3

capacity

Answer 3

a measure of how much information can be held in memory

Question 4

multi store model of memory

Answer 4

an explanation of memory that shows information flowing through 3 separate linear stores

Question 5

sensory memory

Answer 5

capacity - infinite
duration - 1-3 seconds
encoding - all types

Question 6

short term memory

Answer 6

capacity - 7 +/- 2 items
duration - less that 30 seconds
encoding - acoustic

Question 7

maintenance rehearsal

Answer 7

strategy to help move information from STM to LTM

Question 8

retrieval

Answer 8

a process which transfers information back from LTM to STM

Question 9

attention

Answer 9

the process which needs to occur to transfer information from sensory memory to STM

Question 10

working memory model

Answer 10

Baddeley and hitch

shows short term memory as a store that holds different types of information at the small time

Question 11

central executive

Answer 11

a filter determining which information attended to

Question 12

visuo-spatial sketch pad

Answer 12

part of WMM

deals with visual information

Question 13

visual cache

Answer 13

part of the visuo-spatial sketch pad

stores visual information