Short-term and long-term memory

Which of these is a definition of the short term memory store?

• The amount of information that can be stored

• Our initial memory store that is temporary and limited

• When new information overwrites older information

• When we repeat information over and over again to make it stick

Which of these apply to the long term memory store? Select all that apply

• A memory store where encoding is mostly semantic

• A memory store with a potentially unlimited duration

• A memory store with a duration of 18 to 30 seconds

• A memory store with a capacity of 7+/-2 chunks

Acoustic encoding is...

• the process of storing the meaning of information in our memory system

• the process of storing sound information into our memory system

• the process of storing something information we see into our memory system

The capacity of short term memory is ___ +/- ___ chunks of information

The duration of short term memory is around ___ seconds.

What is the key term for this definition 'when the short-term memory becomes 'full' and new information pushes out older information'?

• Displacement

• Retrieval

• Output

• Interference

What is the key term for this definition 'when new similar information overwrites older information in your long-term memory'?

• Displacement

• Retrieval

• Output

• Interference