The Science of Short-Term Memory

The video tutorial discusses short term memory, its importance in daily tasks, and the role of the prefrontal lobe in memory retention. It highlights an experiment from 1959 that demonstrates how quickly short term memory can fade. The tutorial also provides strategies to enhance short term memory, such as chunking and repetition, and suggests that unusual fonts can aid in memory retention.

Which part of the brain is primarily involved in short-term memory tasks?

• Parietal lobe

• Prefrontal lobe

• Temporal lobe

• Occipital lobe

What was the main task participants had to perform in the 1959 experiment on short-term memory?

• Read a passage

• Solve a puzzle

• Count backwards in sets of threes

• Memorize a list of numbers

After how many seconds of counting backwards did participants forget more than half of the original letters in the experiment?

• 6 seconds

• 12 seconds

• 24 seconds

• 18 seconds

What is one method mentioned to increase the capacity of short-term memory?

• Listening to music

• Chunking information

• Eating healthy

• Sleeping more

How can repeating information help with short-term memory?

• It increases the number of items you can remember

• It makes the information more interesting

• It changes the information into a different format

• It resets the short-term memory clock