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AQA Memory - First Half

Total questions: 27

Worksheet time: 16mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who conducted research on coding?

(a)  

2.

Define coding

a)

The way in which information is stored / put into / processed into memory,

b)

How much can be held in memory, in terms of bits or chunks of information.

c)

how long a memory lasts in a store, before it is no longer available for recall.


3.

According to Baddeley's Experiment, how is STM coded?

a)
STM is coded visually.
b)
STM is coded semantically.
c)
STM is coded through tactile means.
d)
STM is coded acoustically.
4.

According to Baddeley's experiment, how is LTM coded?

a)
LTM is coded semantically.
b)
LTM is coded chronologically.
c)
LTM is coded acoustically.
d)
LTM is coded visually.
5.

Define capacity.

a)

How long you can hold a piece of information in your memory

b)

How much information you can hold in your memory

c)

How information is stored in your memory

6.

How did Jacobs investigate the capacity of STM?

a)
Jacobs measured reaction times to assess STM capacity.
b)
Jacobs used brain imaging techniques to study STM function.
c)
Jacobs conducted interviews to gather qualitative data on STM.
d)
Jacobs used recall tasks with increasing list lengths to assess STM capacity.
7.

What is the capacity of Short term memory?

a)

Around 7

b)

More than 10

c)

Less than 3

8.

What is the capacity of LTM?

a)

Thought to be Unlimited

b)

7+/-2 bits of information

9.

Define duration.

a)

The way in which information is stored / put into / processed into memory,

b)

How much can be held in memory, in terms of bits or chunks of information.


c)

How long a memory lasts in a store, before it is no longer available for recall.

10.

Who Conducted STM Duration Research?

a)

Peterson & Peterson

b)

Baddeley & Hitch

c)

Jacobs

d)
B.F. Skinner
11.

How was the duration of STM investigated?

a)

Through having to recall increasingly longer sequences of numbers immediately

b)

Through trying to recall your high school class mates

c)

By learning a trigram and then having counting back in 3s for varying lengths of time and then recalling the trigram

12.

What is the duration of STM?

a)
5 to 10 seconds
b)

18 to 30 seconds

c)

32 to 64 seconds

d)
1 to 2 minutes
13.

Who researched the duration of LTM?

(a)  

14.

How did Bahrick investigate the duration of LTM?

a)

Through having to recall increasingly longer sequences of numbers immediately

b)

By getting participants to free recall names of classmates, identifying classmates from list of names and photos.

c)

By learning a trigram and then having counting back in 3s for varying lengths of time and then recalling the trigram

15.

What is the duration of LTM?

a)

Weeks

b)

A Lifetime

c)

Minutes

d)
Only a few seconds
16.

Who Devised the Multi-Store Model?

a)
John Watson and B.F. Skinner
b)

Alan Baddeley and Graham Hitch

c)
Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung
d)
Richard Atkinson and Richard Shiffrin
17.

What is the Duration of the Sensory Register?

a)

1-2 seconds

b)

5-10 seconds

c)

250ms

d)

30 seconds

18.

Who Devised the Working Memory Model?

a)
B.F. Skinner
b)
Sigmund Freud
d)
Alan Baddeley and Graham Hitch
19.

What makes up the Phonological Loop?

a)

The visual cache and phonological store

b)

The central executive and the episodic buffer.

c)

The visual cache and inner scribe

d)

The phonological store and the articulatory process.

20.

What is the Central Executive?

a)

Attentional process that monitors incoming data.

b)

Allocates data to certain slave systems.

c)

Processes acoustic information

21.

What is the Phonological Loop?

a)

Deals with auditory info, both written and spoken.

b)

Deals with visual information such as colour and shape

c)

Allocates information to subsystems

22.

What is the Visuo-Spatial Sketchpad?

a)

Stores visual or spatial information.

b)

Stores acoustic information

c)

Helps sequence information taken from the LTM

23.

What two things make up the Visuospatial Sketchpad?

a)

Articulatory process and phonological store

b)

Central executive and episodic buffer

c)
Visual cache and inner scribe
d)

Visual cache and episodic buffer

24.

Organise these into the different types of LTM

Categorize the following

What is the captial of france?

The largest planet in the solar system

Who wrote 'Romeo and Juliet'

What you ate for dinner last night

Where you went on your last holiday

What you did for your last birthday.

How to ride a bike

How to write

Tying shoelaces

Semantic
Episodic
Procedural
25.

What is episodic memory?

a)
Episodic memory is the ability to recall facts and figures.
b)
Episodic memory is the memory of personal experiences and specific events in time.
c)
Episodic memory refers to the memory of skills and procedures.
d)
Episodic memory is the memory of general knowledge and concepts.
26.

What is semantic memory?

a)
Semantic memory is the memory of emotions and feelings.
b)
Semantic memory is the memory of facts and general knowledge.
c)
Semantic memory is the memory of personal experiences.
d)
Semantic memory is the ability to recall specific events.
27.

What is procedural memory?

a)
Procedural memory is a type of explicit memory related to facts and events.
b)
Procedural memory is the ability to recall personal experiences and specific events.
c)

Procedural memory is a conscious memory system used for memorising information.

d)

Procedural memory is a type of implicit memory that relates to how you do something