20: OCR Memory - MSM

Which is the correct order?

• sensory store, short-term memory, long-term memory

• short-term memory, long-term memory, sensory store

• long-term memory, sensory store, short-term memory

• short-term memory, sensory store, long-term memory

What transfers information from the sensory store to short-term memory?

• attention

• maintenance rehearsal

• prolonged rehearsal

• retrieval

There are three types of forgetting - decay, displacement, and retrieval failure. Which two can explain why information may be lost from short-term memory?

• decay

• displacement

• retrieval failure

Answer explanation

If information isn't rehearsed, it decays from STM. In addition, if new information comes in which pushes STM over its capacity, the new information displaces the old.

Which has a large capacity but short duration?

• sensory store

• short-term memory

• long-term memory

What's the duration of short-term memory?

• approximately 2 seconds

• 15-30 seconds without rehearsal

• potentially forever

Which encodes information in a mainly semantic way?

• sensory store

• short-term memory

• long-term memory

Short-term memory relies mainly on which type of encoding?

• auditory

• olfactory

• semantic

What's the capacity of short-term memory?

• 4 plus or minus 2 items

• 7 plus or minus 2 items

• 10 plus or minus 2 items

What can help increase the capacity of STM?

• attention

• chunking

• maintenance rehearsal

• retrieval cues

Answer explanation

Key word is capacity - how MUCH it can store - chunk individual items together

The model has been criticised for being too simple, as it doesn't reflect evidence for different types of long-term memory. What are these different types? (there are three - type them in alphabetical order, no commas)