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1
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What is duration?

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How long the information in our memory lasts

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What is capacity?

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How much information our memory can hold

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What is encoding?

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How information goes in and the format in which it is stored

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What is the duration of STM?

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18 seconds

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What did Peterson and Peterson investigate?

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The duration of STM

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What did Peterson and Peterson ask participants to do in their study?

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  • Presented with consonant syllables and a 3 digit number to be remembered
  • Asked to count backwards after a delay of a varying amount of times
  • Then recall information
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What were Peterson and Petersons findings?

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That STM duration is less than 18 seconds if maintenance/verbal rehearsal is prevented

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What were 2 limitations of Peterson and Petersons study?

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  • Low ecological validity as artificial stimulus material used
  • Results may be inaccurate due to participants guessing what they would be asked to do
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What is the duration of the long term memory?

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Potentially unlimited

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Who investigated the duration of LTM?

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Bahrick

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What were participants asked to do in Bahricks study?

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Ex high school pupils asked to:

  • Recall as many names as possible
  • Put names to faces from high school year book
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What were the results of Bahricks study?

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48 years later = 70% accuracy

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What is one strength and one limitation of Bahricks study?

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  • Meaningful stimulus material so duration was better

- Participants may have looked at year book/seen classmates since high school leading to better recall

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What is the capacity of the long term memory?

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Infinite

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What is the capacity of short term memory?

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7 + / - 2 chunks

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What did Miller/Jacobs do in their investigation of the capacity of STM?

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Participants were presented with a 3 digit sequence of digits/letter to remember. He assessed the capacity using digit span technique

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What is encoding in STM?

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Acoustic

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What is encoding in LTM?

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Semantic

19
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What did Baddeley give participants in his lap experiment?

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List of words that were acoustically similar/dissimilar and a list of words that were semantically similar/dissimilar

20
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What were the results of Baddeleys experiment?

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More difficulty remembering Acoustically similar words in STM but not LTM
More difficulty remembering semantically similar words in LTM but not STM

21
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What are the three stores in the MSM?

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Sensory, STM + LTM

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What causes the information in the sensory store to be transferred to the STM?

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Attention

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What happens if information in the STM is not rehearsed?

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It decays

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What happens with increased/frequent maintenance rehearsal of information in the STM?

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It is transferred to the LTM

25
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The more rehearsal of information, the -

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better it is remembered

26
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What is a (sensory memory) lab experiment supporting the MSM?

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  • Sperling asked participants to report 12 letters/digits from a 3 line display after a short delay
  • Recall was poorer for all items than one row display
  • supports the idea that information decays rapidly in the sensory store
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What does Sperlings results show and how does it support the MSM?

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  • Shows information decays rapidly in sensory store

- Supports MSM theory of sensory store and duration of information

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What was Glanzer and Cunitz serial position experiment?

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  • Participants asked to remember list of words

- Words at start and end of lost best remembered

29
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What did Glanzer and Cunitz serial position experiment show?

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  • First words best rehearsed and transferred to LTM
  • Last words in STM
  • Supports the idea that STM and LTM are 2 diff stores
30
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What does the case of HM show?

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Supports the idea that LTM and STM separate stores

31
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How might information in the STM be lost?

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Decay or displacement

32
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What are two strengths of the MSM?

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  • Research support (Glanzer + Cunitz, Sperling)

- Produces testible predictions

33
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What is a main limitation of MSM?

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The MSM suggests that the LTM and STM are single stores, when they are divided into separate stores. A study showed amnesiac patients procedural memories were intact but not other types of LTM

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What is a second limitation of the MSM?

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LACK OF VALIDITY:
Studies mainly conducted in a lab (reduces ecological validity) involving psychology students, students may guess the aim of experiment which can alter behaviour

35
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What is the multistore model?

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An explanation of how our memory processes work, based on the idea that there are three seperate components

36
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Who proposed the multistore model?

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Atkinson and Shiffrin

37
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Where does information first arrive?

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The sensory memory

38
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When information arrives at the sensory memory, what happens if attention is paid to this information?

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It is transferred to the short term memory

39
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What happens if no attention is paid to the information in the sensory memory?

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It will rapidly decay

40
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What state is the information in the short term memory in?

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A fragile state

41
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In the short term memory, what will happen if information is not sufficiently rehearsed?

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It will decay of be displaced by new information

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In Glanzer and Cunitz serial position effect study, why were words recalled better from the start and the ends of the list?

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Primacy and regency effect

43
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Which 3 studies support the MSM?

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  • Sperling
  • Glanzer and Cunitz
  • Case of HM
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What is a third limitation of the MSM?

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It only takes maintenance rehearsal into account, but a study by Craik and Tulving found that elaboration rehearsal is just as important

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