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Worksheets20: OCR Memory - MSM
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 6mins
Which is the correct order?
sensory store, short-term memory, long-term memory
short-term memory, long-term memory, sensory store
long-term memory, sensory store, short-term memory
short-term memory, sensory store, long-term memory
What transfers information from the sensory store to short-term memory?
attention
maintenance rehearsal
prolonged rehearsal
retrieval
There are three types of forgetting - decay, displacement, and retrieval failure. Which two can explain why information may be lost from short-term memory?
decay
displacement
retrieval failure
Which has a large capacity but short duration?
sensory store
short-term memory
long-term memory
What's the duration of short-term memory?
approximately 2 seconds
15-30 seconds without rehearsal
potentially forever
Which encodes information in a mainly semantic way?
sensory store
short-term memory
long-term memory
Short-term memory relies mainly on which type of encoding?
auditory
olfactory
semantic
What's the capacity of short-term memory?
4 plus or minus 2 items
7 plus or minus 2 items
10 plus or minus 2 items
What can help increase the capacity of STM?
attention
chunking
maintenance rehearsal
retrieval cues
The model has been criticised for being too simple, as it doesn't reflect evidence for different types of long-term memory. What are these different types? (there are three - type them in alphabetical order, no commas)
(a)
