Types of Memory, Capacity & Duration Flashcards

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what’s the study associated with sensory memory?

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sperling 1960

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what’s the capacity of the sensory memory?

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the capacity in the sensory memory is unlimited

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what is the duration of the sensory memory?

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the duration of the sensory memory is 0.5 seconds

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what is the type of coding in the sensory memory?

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the sensory memory has sensory encoding

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5
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where is sensory memory believed to be located in the brain?

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fMRI scans show that this is in the medial prefrontal cortex

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what is the capacity of the Short term memory

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Short term memory has a capacity of 5-9 items, Miller 1956

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what is the duration of the Short term memory

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the duration of the Short term memory
is 18-30s, P+P 1959

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what is type of encoding in Short term memory

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Short term memory has acoustic encoding, baddeley 1966

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what capacity does long term memory have?

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long term memory has a unlimited capacity, bahrick 1975

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10
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what duration does long term memory have ?

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long term memory has an unlimted duration

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what encoding does long term memory have?

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semantic encoding, baddeley 1966

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what is the central executive?

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Determines how resources from slave systems are allocated

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what is the capacity of the central executive?

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the capacity is limited in the central executive

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what is the encoding in the Central executive?

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the encoding in Central executive is modality free

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what area of the brain i Central executive located?

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prefrontal cortex

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16
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what is the phonological loop?

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Deals with auditory information and preserves word order – Inner Ear

17
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what is the capacity of the phonological loop?

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the capacity of the phonological loop is 2s worth of info

18
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what kind of coding does the phonological loop have?

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the phonological loop has acoustic encoding

19
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where is the phonological loop located?

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the phonological loop is located in the parietal lobe

20
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what is the episodic buffer?

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Integrates information from all other areas

21
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what is the capacity of the episodic buffer?

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the episodic buffer has a capacity 4 chunks of info

22
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what is the coding of the episodic buffer

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the coding of the episodic buffer is modality free

23
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in what area of the brain is the episodic buffer bases

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the episodic buffer is based in the hippocampus

24
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what is the visio-spatial sketchpad?

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Visual and/or spatial information stored here – Inner Eye

25
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what is the capacity of the visio-spatial sketchpad?

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the capacity of the visio-spatial sketchpad is 3-4 objects

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what is the capacity of the visio-spatial sketchpad?

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the capacity of the visio-spatial sketchpad is 3-4 objecs t

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what kind of encoding does visio-spatial sketchpad have?

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visio-spatial sketchpad has a visual encoding

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in what area of the brain is the visio-spatial sketchpad

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the visio-spatial sketchpad is located in the temporal lobe