REVISION Memory 2

Which coding system AND researcher is relevant to the coding in STM?

• Acoustic

• Visual

• Baddeley (1966)

• Sperling (1960)

What is this a definition of?

'Refers to the way in which information is changed and stored in memory'

• Duration

• Coding

• Capacity

• Semantic

Answer explanation

You need to provide definitions of A-C to illustrate what we know about them for all three memory stores

What is the most common experimental method used when investigating the multistore model of memory?

• Independent groups

• Repeated measures

• Field experiment

• Lab experiment

Answer explanation

Design vs method

Which type of LTM is being described here?

'Mary can make cups of tea easily, so easily that she doesn't even have to think about how to do it'

• Acoustic

• Semantic

• Procedural

• Episodic

Answer explanation

Implicit and explicit

Which of these correctly explains a difference between semantic memory and procedural memory?

• Semantic memories are associated with the temporal lobe whereas procedural memories are associated with the cerebellum and motor cortex

• Semantic memories are implicit as they are our knowledge of facts whereas procedural memories are explicit as they are memories of the skills that are unconscious

Answer explanation

Differences:

explicit/implicit

brain location

Look at the diagram of the WMM - select two terms that describe what is missing from the boxes under the phonological loop

• Articulatory control system

• Visual cache

• Inner scribe

• Phonological store

Which was the last part of the WMM to be added to the model?

• Episodic buffer

• Phonological loop

• Central executive

• Visio spatial sketchpad

Which of these is not a similarity between the MSM and the WMM?

• There is case study support for both

• Studies used to support both often lack ecological validity

• They are both models of STM

• There is experimental research support for both

Answer explanation

WMM is a more comprehensive model - of STM

Which of the following is an example of proactive interference?

• Not being able to find your phone after you've sobered up

• Being in your lounge and going into the kitchen to 'get something' and not remembering what it was until you go back to the lounge

• Learning a new sport but mixing up the rules with sports you had learned previously

• A teacher can only remember the names of the students she taught this year and not the previous year

Answer explanation

A - retrieval failure

B - retrieval failure

D - retroactive

Which of these statements about the effect of anxiety on EWT is not correct?

• Anxiety can have both a positive and negative influence on the accuracy of EWT

• The weapon focus effect is an example of how anxiety affects the accuracy of EWT

• The Yerkes Dodson law can be used to explain how anxiety affects the accuracy of EWT

• Anxiety can only negatively impact the accuracy of EWT