WorksheetsA-level Memory - MSM
Total questions: 11
Worksheet time: 6mins
The multi-store model was created by...
Baddeley and Hitch
Tulving
Atkinson and Shiffrin
Bartlett
All stimuli from the environment pass into which store first?
Long term store
Short term store
Phonological store
Sensory register
The duration of the sensory register is...
15-30 seconds
Less than half a second
Infinite
2 minutes
For information to transfer from sensory register to the STM, we have to...
Rehearse
Pay attention
Retrieve
Recall
The capacity of STM is...
5-9 items
15-30 items
Potentially unlimited
Very large
Who conducted an experiment to demonstrate the duration of STM?
Baddeley
Peterson and Peterson
Bahrick
Sperling
We can maintain information for longer in our STM by...
Paying attention
Semantic rehearsal
Rehearsing information
Recalling information
The duration in LTM is...
Potentially infinite
18 - 30 years
5-9 years
Limited
Which research demonstrated the duration of LTM?
Peterson and Peterson (trigrams)
Miller (magic number)
Baddeley (word lists)
Bahrick (year book photos)
A weakness of the MSM is...
It can't be applied in practical ways
It is too easy to understand
It is reductionist as it ignores individual differences
It has no supporting evidence
Which of these is the best definition of encoding?
The sensory information we receive from our environment
The retention of information in our memory system
The recall of stored memory
Turning sensory information into a form it can be used and stored by the brain.
