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Types Of Memory Flashcards

1
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What are the 3 types of memory?

A
  1. Sensory register
  2. Short term memory
  3. Long term memory
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What is the sensory register?

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Temporarily stores info from your senses

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Does the sensory register have a lot of capacity and long duration?

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No

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4
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What are the three ways memory stores differ?

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Duration, capacity and coding

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5
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Describe short-term memory in terms of capacity, duration and coding

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Capacity is limited

duration is limited

coding is acoustic

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What is long-term memory in terms of capacity duration and coding?

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Capacity is unlimited

duration is permanent

coding is semantic (the meaning of the information)

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What are the three different types of long term memory?

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  1. Episodic
  2. Semantic
  3. Procedural
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What is episodic memory?

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It stores information about experiences and events

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What is semantic memory?

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Memory of facts and knowledge

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10
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What is procedural memory?

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Stores for knowledge of how to do things

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11
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Can episodic memory be consciously recalled?

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Yes

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12
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Can semantic memory be consciously recalled?

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Yes

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13
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Can procedural memory be consciously recalled?

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No

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14
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Who did the experiment on the sensory register?

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Sperling 1960

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Who did the experiment on the duration of the STM?

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Peterson and Peterson, 1959

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16
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Who did the experiment on very long-term memories?

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Bahrick et al 1975

17
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Who did the experiment on the capacity of STM?

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Jacobs 1887

18
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Who reviewed research into the capacity of STM?

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Miller 1956

19
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What is Miller’s magic number?

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7 plus or minus 2

20
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What is chunking?

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Joining together individual units to make larger ones. These that can then be remembered.

21
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What coding is generally used in STM?

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Acoustic coding

22
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What coding is generally used in LTM?

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Semantic

23
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Who did the experiment to investigate coding in STM and LTM?

A

Baddeley 1966

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