Memory revision

Question 1

Sensory register

Answer 1

Has one store for each of our five senses.

Duration- Less than half a second

Capacity- 12 items (iconic store)

Question 2

Short term memory (STM)

Answer 2

Capacity- 7±2

Duration- 30 seconds

Coded- acoustically

Question 3

Long term memory store (LTM)

Answer 3

Duration- roughly 50 years

Capacity- limitless

Coded- semantically

Question 4

Episodic memory

Answer 4

A long term memory store for personal events.

Includes memories of events that occurred and of the people, objects, places and behaviours.

Question 5

Semantic memory

Answer 5

A long term memory store for our knowledge of the world. Includes facts, and our knowledge of the world and the concepts.

Question 6

Procedural memory

Answer 6

A long term memory store for our knowledge of how to do things. Includes our memory of learned things without making a conscious or deliberate effort.

Question 7

Central executive

Answer 7

An attentional process that monitors incoming data. makes decisions and allocates slave systems to tasks.

Has limited processing capacity.

Question 8

Phonological loop

Answer 8

Deals with auditory information i.e. coding is acoustic and preserves the order in which the information arrives.

• The phonological store: store the words you hear.
• The articulatory process: allows the maintenance rehearsal or words in a loop to keep. them working memory while they are needed.

Question 9

Visuo-spatial sketchpad

Answer 9

Stores visual and/or spatial information when required.