WorksheetsCoding, Capacity and Duration of Memory
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Which term is used for how much information can be held in a memory store?
Coding
Capacity
Duration
Rehearsal
Which term is used for the length of time information can be held in memory?
Coding
Capacity
Duration
Chunking
Which term refers to the format in which information is stored in the various memory stores?
Coding
Chunking
Duration
Capacity
According to researchers such as Jacobs and Miller, what is the capacity of short term memory (STM)?
3 - 4 items
5 - 9 items
10 - 12 items
potentially unlimited
Grouping sets of digits or letters into units or chunks is known as ..
(a)
Who conducted research into the duration of long term memory (LTM) by using High School yearbooks?
Bahrick et al. (1975)
Jacobs (1887)
Miller (1956)
Peterson & Peterson (1959)
Who researched the duration of STM using trigrams (consonant syllables)?
Bahrick (1975)
Baddeley (1966)
Miller (1956)
Peterson & Peterson (1959)
What is thought to be the duration of STM?
potentially unlimited
30 minutes
18 - 30 seconds
60 seconds
In the study by Bahrick et al., what was the percentage of correct photo recognition after 48 years?
70%
60%
80%
30%
Who devised the Multi-store Model of Memory?
Baddeley & Hitch (1975)
Peterson & Peterson (1959)
Tulving (1985)
Atkinson & Shiffrin (1968,1971)
In the Multi-store Model of Memory (MSM), what is the duration of the sensory register?
4 seconds
18 - 30 seconds
less than half a second
unlimited
How is information coded in long term memory (LTM)?
acoustically
semantically
How is information coded in short term memory (STM)?
acoustically
semantically
To keep memories active in STM we repeat (rehearse) material to ourselves over and over again. This is called ..
(a)
One limitation of the MSM which is supported by Shallice & Warrington's study of patient KF is that ..
There is lots of evidence to support the MSM
long term memory is a permanent store
There is more that one type of short term memory
There is more than one type of rehearsal
According to Craik & Watkins (1973), which type of rehearsal is needed for long-term storage?
Elaborative rehearsal
Maintenance rehearsal
The Multi-store Model contains how many stores?
1
2
3
4
If you pay attention to information in the sensory register it passes into the (a) store
Who researched short term memory by studying a patient with amnesia known as KF?
Atkinson & Shiffrin (1968)
Baddeley & Hitch (1974)
Shallice & Warrington (1970)
Craik & Watkins (1973)
In the multi-store model, information is transferred from STM to LTM through:
retention
retrieval
attention
prolonged rehearsal
