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Define duration, encoding and capacity in the context of memory |
Encoding = How information is learnt and stored Capacity = How much information can be stored in a specific store (E.g LTM store) Duration = How long the information stored can stay stored without decaying |
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Which psychologist did research into iconic memory in 1960? |
Sperling (Used 3x4 grids to make people remember when he showed it for a split second) (On average the amount remembered was 4) |
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If visual memory is know as iconic then what is auditory and touch known as? |
Auditory = Echoic Touch = Haptic |
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What type of encoding happens in the LTM and the STM |
STM encoding = Acoustic (How things sound) LTM encoding = Semantic (What things mean) |
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Which famous psychologist found the types of encoding for both LTM and STM in 1966? |
Baddeley |
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What did Peterson and Peterson estimate the duration of the STM to be in 1959? |
18 seconds |
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What are the duration and the capacity of the LTM? |
Duration = Any thing up to a life time Capacity = Potentially infinite |
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What are the 3 types of LTM according to Tulving in 1979? |
Procedural, Episodic and Semantic |
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Which of the LTM types can be defined as declarative and explicit? |
Semantic and Episodic |
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What 2 key things about memory did Glanzer and Cunitz discover in 1966? |
Primacy and Recency |
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What are the 4 main parts of the Working Model of Memory? |
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What part of the Multi-store model of memory does the Working Model of Memory represent? |
The STM store |
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What did Baddeley come up with in 1975? Hint: Its to do with word length |
The Word Length effect |
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In Interference Theory what are the 2 types of Interference |
Pro-active and Retro-active Interference |
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What are the 3 main parts of the Eye witness Testimony? |
- Misleading information - Leading questions - Post event discussion |
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What does Yerkes-Dodson Law state? |
That medium anxiety levels are better for recalling information |
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In the Multi-Store Model of Memory where does information from environment first go? |
The Sensory Register |
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What are the 2 types of rehearsal called in the Multi-Store Model of Memory? |
Prolonged Rehearsal and Maintenance Rehearsal |
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Give a negative point towards the Multi-Store Model of Memory |
- Its Reductionist - Little Empirical Evidence |
