Capacity, Duration and Coding

Which researcher found that the sensory register retains information for 2-3 seconds for the echoic store?

• Crowder (1993)

• Walsh and Thompson (1978)

• Sterling (1960)

• Baddeley (1966)

Which researcher found that long-term memory was potentially infinite by recalling his own diary entries?

• Crowder (1993)

• Walsh and Thompson (1978)

• Wagenaar (1942)

• Baddeley (1966)

Which researcher found that the sensory register could only hold information for milliseconds?

• Crowder (1993)

• Walsh and Thompson (1978)

• Wagenaar (1942)

• Baddeley (1966)

The sensory register can hold information for around (a)   milliseconds.

• 250-500
• 1000-2000
• 200-500

Sterling (1960) used a 3x4 grid of letters to test the capacity of the sensory register. What was the main finding?

• Participants could recall all letters

• Participants could recall one row of letters

• Participants could recall no letters

• Participants could recall half of the letters

Baddeley (1966) found that participants struggled to remember ​ (a)   similar words within (b)   seconds.

• 30
• 20

• 18
• acoustically
• semantically

Miller (1956) found that people can count on average how many dots flashed on screen?

• 5

• 6

• 7

• 8

After 48 years, what was the accuracy percentage found by Bahrik et al. (1975) for identifying friends from high-school yearbooks?

• 50%

• 60%

• 70%

• 80%

Which memory store is associated with the ability to recall events like diary entries?

• A) Sensory register

• B) Short-term memory

• C) Long-term memory

• D) Working memory

What is the capacity of the sensory register?

• Very small

• Very large

• Limited

• Unlimited