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WorksheetsMemory - up to Interference Theory
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 7mins
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.
Baddeley found that acoustically similar words were easier to remember in...
the sensory register
short-term memory
long-term memory
The working memory model attempts to explain...
Sensory memory
Short-term memory
Long-term memory
All types of memory
The model can explain why we can...
Do two phonological tasks at the same time
Do a phonological and a visual task at the same time
Do a visual and a spatial task at the same time
Do a visual task and a haptic (touch) task at the same time
The model takes a machine reductionist view as...
It says that our brain is similar to a computer
It says that short-term memory is only one store
It says that memory is processed through a series of systems and processes
It suggests that memory is both biological and cognitive
Memories of specific events including what you did and who you were with is...
Episodic
Semantic
Procedural
This type of memory is held in the basal ganglia
Episodic
Semantic
Procedural
This type of memory is implicit
Episodic
Semantic
Procedural
Interference is an explanation for forgetting from which memory store?
Sensory register
Iconic memory
Echoic memory
Long-term memory
Proactive interference occurs when...
Newer memories cause forgetting of older ones
Memories fade over time
Older memories cause forgetting of newer memories
We don't have the right information to trigger our memories
Retrieval failure occurs when...
Information disappears and is no longer available
Information was never encoding in long-term memory in the first place
We don't have the right cues to recall a memory
We have a lot of relevant cues and we pay attention to them
A problem with the interference theory is...
It can only explain forgetting when information is similar
Baddeley has criticised the studies for being artificial
we may not be forgetting the information, just temporarily misplacing it
there is research which suggests that interference theory is incorrect (schmidt et al)
Research to support the duration of STM being 30 seconds is by...
Johnson and Scott
Peterson and Peterson
Baddeley
Crowder
The multi-store model suggests that STM is processed...
In a unitary store
In multiple different ways
Semantically
Through visual and acoustic encoding
