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Memory - A level Psychology

Total questions: 17

Worksheet time: 11mins

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Class
Date
1.

The format in which information is stored in the various memory stores is known as...?

a)

Capacity

b)

Duration

c)

Coding

d)

Memory storage

2.

Capacity is...?

a)

the format in which information is stored in the various memory stores.

b)

How information is transferred between each memory store

c)

the length of time information can be held in memory.

d)

the amount of information that can be held in a memory store.

3.

The length of time information can be held in memory is...?

a)

Capacity

b)

Coding

c)

Short term memory

d)

Duration

4.

Tick all that apply to the sensory register.

a)

Coding is sense specific

b)

Has a very limited duration (<0.5seconds)

c)

Limited capacity

d)

Unlimited capacity

5.

Tick all that apply to the STM

a)

Duration of 30 seconds

b)

Semantic coding

c)

Acoustic coding

d)

Capacity of 7+/- 2 items

6.

Tick all that apply to LTM.

a)

Unlimited capacity

b)

Permanent duration

c)

Semantic coding

d)

Duration of 3 weeks

7.

Which of the following is a limitation to the MSM?

a)

HM supports that there has to be a separate STM and LTM store.

b)

It cannot account for someone being able to do a visual and verbal task at the same time as indicated by KF

c)

It is vague

d)

It doesn't explain how information is transferred between each store.

8.

Which type of LTM stores facts and knowledge?

a)

Semantic

b)

Episodic

c)

Procedural

d)

Episodic buffer

9.

Which type of LTM stores events that you have experienced?

a)

Semantic

b)

Episodic

c)

Procedural

d)

Episodic buffer

10.

Which type of LTM stores how to do things?

a)

Semantic

b)

Episodic

c)

Procedural

d)

Episodic buffer

11.

Which model has the following STM stores?

Episodic buffer, phonological loop and visuospatial sketchpad.

a)

MSM

b)

WSMM

c)

WMM

d)

EPVM

12.

Which of the following components are in the WMM?

a)

Phonological loop

b)

Central executive

c)

Sensory Register

d)

LTM

13.

The phonological loop is made up of...?

a)

Articulatory loop

b)

Inner scribe

c)

Phonological store

d)

Visual cache

14.

The visuospatial sketchpad is made up of...?

a)

Articulatory loop

b)

Inner scribe

c)

Phonological store

d)

Visual cache

15.

Tick all that store auditory information.

a)

Articulatory loop

b)

Inner scribe

c)

Phonological store

d)

phonological store

16.

Tick all that store visual information.

a)

Articulatory loop

b)

Inner scribe

c)

Visuospatial sketchpad

d)

Visual cache

17.

Which one supports the WMM.

a)

The supporting studies have high ecological validity

b)

The supporting studies have low ecological validity

c)

HM supports the idea that there is a STM and LTM memory

d)

KF had an impaired articulatory loop but intact visuospatial sketchpad