sensory register Flashcards
Information that goes into the sensory register is sensory, so can say that the coding of the sensory register is…
ASensory
Which of the following is correct about the sensory register?
CThe sensory register has a short duration
DThe sensory register has a duration of 1-2 seconds
The capacity of the sensory register is…
DBig
Which of the following are correct about the sensory register? Long
IThe sensory register has a sensory code
EThe sensory register has a duration of 1-2 seconds
FThe sensory register has a large capacity
BThe sensory register is a temporary store that stores sensory information while we process it
Which of the following are correct about Sperling’s experiment?
FHis dependent variable was how many letters his participants could recall.
BSperling conducted a laboratory experiment
Sperling wanted to determine how many letters, if any, his participants could recall. So, what feature of sensory memory was Sperling investigating?
BCapacity
Which of the following are correct about the method of Sperling’s study?
EHe conducted a laboratory experiment investigating the capacity of the sensory register
DThere were two conditions: full grid recall or one-row recall
A4 by 3 grids of letters were displayed for 50 milliseconds
For how many seconds does the sensory register hold information?
2 seconds
Sperling found that…
Dthe sensory register has a short duration
Athe sensory register has a large capacity
Sperling showed that we have a very short-term store called the that enables us to recall sensory information from the outside world, immediately after we process it.
Although this sensory store has quite a large , information is stored for such a short that we begin to lose all the information before we can finish recalling it.
Sperling showed that we have a very short-term store called the sensory register that enables us to recall sensory information from the outside world, immediately after we process it.
Although this sensory store has quite a large capacity , information is stored for such a short duration that we begin to lose all the information before we can finish recalling it.
Question 1. Which of the following statements is true of the sensory register?
The sensory register is one of three memory stores, storing all information from our five senses. This information is stored using sensory coding, but only for a very short period of time; 1-2 seconds at most.
Dom is drinking coffee at a cafe. He is trying to focus on his work, but he keeps becoming distracted by all of the activity going on around him. He can hear people talking, he can smell the roasting coffee and he can feel the warm sun beating down through the windows. He feels very distracted and flooded with information. He keeps looking around, but after looking up from his work he cannot remember why he has looked up or what he was looking at. Question 2. Using your knowledge of capacity and duration, explain Dom’s behaviour in this situation.
Dom’s sensory register has a large capacity, storing a large amount of sensory information, making him feel overwhelmed. But, because the sensory register has a very short duration, when he looks up, he is unable to focus on anything. This is because the information has already left the sensory register, and so Dom forgets why he looked up in the first place.
Question 3. Which of the following statements is true of Sperling’s study?
Sperling’s study investigated the sensory register, by showing participants a 4x3 grid of 12 letters, for 50 milliseconds. In doing so, Sperling measured how many letters participants could recall, in order to test the capacity of the sensory register.
Question 4. Which of the following statements best describes the conditions that Sperling used.
Sperling’s study had two conditions. One where the participants had to recall as many of the 12 letters as possible, and another where they had to recall just the one row. This happened immediately after the grid was shown, so participants did not have time to attach meaning to the letters before recall.
Question 5. Describe the results of Sperling’s study.
In condition 1, where participants had to recall the entire grid, they usually recalled around 4-7 letters. When participants were asked to recall only one of the rows, they usually recalled around 3 letters.
Sperling concluded that the sensory register had a…
Large capacity
Sperling argued that the capacity size of the sensory register was the reason that…
Participants could recall most of teh letters in the single row condition
Sperling concluded that the sensory register had a…
Short duration
Sperling argued that the duration length of the sensory register was the reason that…
Participants could only recall 4-5 letters
Sperling’s reasoning for the amount of letters recalled was that…
The short duration led to some letters being forgotten in the fukk grid condition by the time they had to recall the letters
