Memory - A level Psychology

The format in which information is stored in the various memory stores is known as...?

• Capacity

• Duration

• Coding

• Memory storage

Capacity is...?

• the format in which information is stored in the various memory stores.

• How information is transferred between each memory store

• the length of time information can be held in memory.

• the amount of information that can be held in a memory store.

The length of time information can be held in memory is...?

• Capacity

• Coding

• Short term memory

• Duration

Tick all that apply to the sensory register.

• Coding is sense specific

• Has a very limited duration (<0.5seconds)

• Limited capacity

• Unlimited capacity

Tick all that apply to the STM

• Duration of 30 seconds

• Semantic coding

• Acoustic coding

• Capacity of 7+/- 2 items

Tick all that apply to LTM.

• Unlimited capacity

• Permanent duration

• Semantic coding

• Duration of 3 weeks

Which of the following is a limitation to the MSM?

• HM supports that there has to be a separate STM and LTM store.

• It cannot account for someone being able to do a visual and verbal task at the same time as indicated by KF

• It is vague

• It doesn't explain how information is transferred between each store.

Which type of LTM stores facts and knowledge?

• Semantic

• Episodic

• Procedural

• Episodic buffer

Which type of LTM stores events that you have experienced?

• Semantic

• Episodic

• Procedural

• Episodic buffer

Which type of LTM stores how to do things?

• Semantic

• Episodic

• Procedural

• Episodic buffer