memory - studies

Question 1

Name a study that looks at the capacity of the STM

Answer 1

Millers digit span

Question 2

Name a study that looks at the duration of the STM

Answer 2

Petersons and Petersons trigrams

Question 3

Name s study that looks into the encoding of the STM

Answer 3

Conards acoustically similar letters

Question 4

Name a study that looks into the duration of the LTM

Answer 4

Barhicks high school photos

Question 5

Name a study that looks into the encoding inb the LTM

Answer 5

Baddlys acoustically similar letters.

Question 6

Name a study that looks at the duration of the SR

Answer 6

Sperlings flashing rows

Question 7

how many rows did PPS remember in Sperlings first study.

Answer 7

3or4/12

Question 8

What conclusion did Sperling draw from his first study into the capacity of the STM

Answer 8

It is very limited

Question 9

What did Sperling do in his second study ?

Answer 9

Looked at the duration of the SR by playing a tone then asking PPS the letters on that row

Question 10

what was thew findings and conclusion in sperlings second study?

Answer 10

each PP remembered 3or4 letter on each each row showing that PPS remembered 9/12 letters. this shows duration is short because PPS could not report this in the first study.

Question 11

What did Miller find in his digit span study ?

Answer 11

that PPS were able to remember 7+/-2 items

Question 12

What were PPS asked to do in Millers digit span study?

Answer 12

read rows are numbers and recall them back

Question 13

what was the conclusion in Millers digit span study ?

Answer 13

the STM has a duration of 7+/-2

Question 14

Name a study into the capacity of the SR

Answer 14

Sperlings flashing rows

Question 15

what were PPS asked to do in Petersons and Petersons trigram study ?

Answer 15

they saw a trigram and were then asked to count backwards . the time to count back increased. PPS were then asked to recall the trigram

Question 16

what were the findings in the Peteresons and perterson trigram study

Answer 16

at 3 seconds recall was good but at 18 it was very poor ( 10%)

Question 17

what were the 2 conditions in the high school photos study

Answer 17

one condition they had names to match to faces the secnd they had no names

Question 18

conclution in Bahicks study

Answer 18

the Duration of the LTM is long especially with promts

Question 19

what was the procedure for conards study ?

Answer 19

ask PPS to recall acoustically similar letters in order then do the same with non acoustically letters.

Question 20

what were the 4 conditions in Baddlys study

Answer 20

acoustic sim
acoustic dissim
semantic sim
semantic dissim

Question 21

how long was the wait until PPS were called back in the similar words study

Answer 21

20 mins

Question 22

what results were found in the similar worlds study

Answer 22

no difference in acoustic however a 30% change from sim to dissim