Short-Term & Long-Term Memory - Chapter 7

Question 1

Short-Term Memory Capacity

Answer 1

• Is a memory store with limited capacity and duration (<1 min)
• Able to hold 7±2 items or chunks in STM
  
  • Digit span task
• Chunking

Question 2

Chunking

Answer 2

• Organizing smaller units of
  information into larger,
  more meaningful units
  
  • OBHNCHCBSNNGNNC
  • CBCHBOCTVABCCNN

Question 3

Short-Term Memory Duration

Answer 3

• Brown-Peterson Task
• Rehearsal allows some information to enter long-term storage for later retrieval

Question 4

Brown-Peterson Task

Answer 4

1. Presented 3-Consonant
   Trigrams (e.g., B K G)
2. Math task: Count backward by 3’s

Question 5

Long-Term Memory

Answer 5

Is a memory store that holds information for extended periods of time

Question 6

3 steps of Memory

Answer 6

1. Encoding
   
   • Getting information IN
2. Storage
   
   • Keeping information IN
3. Retrieval
   
   • Getting information OUT

Question 7

Organization of Memory

Answer 7

• Memories are organized according to similarity
• Memory is represented by a series of related nodes
  
  • Thinking about one node “activates” nearby nodes
• Tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon