Types of Memory, Capacity & Duration

Question 1

what’s the study associated with sensory memory?

Answer 1

sperling 1960

Question 2

what’s the capacity of the sensory memory?

Answer 2

the capacity in the sensory memory is unlimited

Question 3

what is the duration of the sensory memory?

Answer 3

the duration of the sensory memory is 0.5 seconds

Question 4

what is the type of coding in the sensory memory?

Answer 4

the sensory memory has sensory encoding

Question 5

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

Answer 5

fMRI scans show that this is in the medial prefrontal cortex

Question 6

what is the capacity of the Short term memory

Answer 6

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

Question 7

what is the duration of the Short term memory

Answer 7

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

Question 8

what is type of encoding in Short term memory

Answer 8

Short term memory has acoustic encoding, baddeley 1966

Question 9

what capacity does long term memory have?

Answer 9

long term memory has a unlimited capacity, bahrick 1975

Question 10

what duration does long term memory have ?

Answer 10

long term memory has an unlimted duration

Question 11

what encoding does long term memory have?

Answer 11

semantic encoding, baddeley 1966

Question 12

what is the central executive?

Answer 12

Determines how resources from slave systems are allocated

Question 13

what is the capacity of the central executive?

Answer 13

the capacity is limited in the central executive

Question 14

what is the encoding in the Central executive?

Answer 14

the encoding in Central executive is modality free

Question 15

what area of the brain i Central executive located?

Answer 15

prefrontal cortex

Question 16

what is the phonological loop?

Answer 16

Deals with auditory information and preserves word order – Inner Ear

Question 17

what is the capacity of the phonological loop?

Answer 17

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

Question 18

what kind of coding does the phonological loop have?

Answer 18

the phonological loop has acoustic encoding

Question 19

where is the phonological loop located?

Answer 19

the phonological loop is located in the parietal lobe

Question 20

what is the episodic buffer?

Answer 20

Integrates information from all other areas

Question 21

what is the capacity of the episodic buffer?

Answer 21

the episodic buffer has a capacity 4 chunks of info

Question 22

what is the coding of the episodic buffer

Answer 22

the coding of the episodic buffer is modality free

Question 23

in what area of the brain is the episodic buffer bases

Answer 23

the episodic buffer is based in the hippocampus

Question 24

what is the visio-spatial sketchpad?

Answer 24

Visual and/or spatial information stored here – Inner Eye

Question 25

what is the capacity of the visio-spatial sketchpad?

Answer 25

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

Question 26

what is the capacity of the visio-spatial sketchpad?

Answer 26

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

Question 27

what kind of encoding does visio-spatial sketchpad have?

Answer 27

visio-spatial sketchpad has a visual encoding

Question 28

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

Answer 28

the visio-spatial sketchpad is located in the temporal lobe