REVISION Memory 1

Which of these statements is NOT relevant to the sensory register?

• It has a large capacity

• It has a very short duration

• Coding is modality specific

• It has a small capacity

Answer explanation

The large capacity is hindered by its short duration

Which of these studies investigated the duration of LTM?

• Sperling

  (tri-grams)

• Bahrick

  (year book)

• Miller

  (magic number)

• Baddeley

  (word lists)

Which of these statements does NOT describe the LTM?

• The capacity is unlimited

• The coding is primarily semantic

• The duration can last a life time

• The coding is primarily acoustic

Which of these is NOT a type of LTM?

• Acoustic

• Semantic

• Procedural

• Episodic

Which of the following statements is incorrect?

• Evidence has shown that the episodic memory is located in the hippocampus

• Evidence has shown that the episodic memory is located in the cerebellum

• Evidence has shown that the procedural memory is located in the cerebellum

• Evidence has shown that the procedural memory is located in the motor cortex

Answer explanation

Brain scans are useful AO3 support for the types of LTM and to explain differences between types of LTM

Maria was trying to carry out two visual tasks at the same time and found that she found it harder than her friend Jane who did each of the tasks separately. Which of the following would explain why that was?

• Maria's episodic buffer was overwhelmed

• Maria's visual spatial sketch pad has limited capacity

• Maria's episodic buffer linked to LTM

• Maria's phonological loop has limited capacity

Answer explanation

Dual task studies support separate slave systems

Which of the following would you not use in an evaluation of the working memory model?

• It is only a model of short term memory

• Studies used to support it often lack ecological validity

• Not all parts of it are really understood

• There is a lack of detailed case study support

Answer explanation

There is case study support eg KF

There is a lot we could say in describing the central executive but which of these is incorrect?

• It has a limited/any capacity

• It directs attention to the slave systems

• Psychologists still aren't quite sure what it does

• It processes only visual information

Answer explanation

It processes any information

Proactive interference is not....

• Part of interference theory

• An explanation of forgetting

• When new info interferes with the ability to remember old

• When old info interferes with the ability to remember new

Answer explanation

Pro - old - new

Retro - new - old

Pon Rno

Retrieval failure as an explanation of forgetting links to lots of key terms. Which one of these is false?

• Proactive retrieval failure

• State dependant

• Encoding specificity principle

• Context dependant