Memory

Question 1

What does the wmm look like

Answer 1

CE
Visuospatial
Sketchpad. Episodic buffer. Phonological loop
Articulatory control system
Phonological store

Question 2

Name the 3 types of ltm

Answer 2

Episodic -recall events
Semantic-facts
Procedural

Question 3

Research to support tulving

Answer 3

Clive wearing- can’t learn facts so semantic isn’t working
However procedural works because he can remember how to play piano

Question 4

describe the peterson and peterson study into stm duration

Answer 4

participants were briefly shown a constant trigram of 3 letters like cgm

participants were given an interference task like counting backwards in threes

after intervals of 3,6,9,12,15,18 seconds participants were asked to recall the trigram

Question 5

evaluate peterson and petersons research into stm duration

Answer 5

it has low ecological validity due to it being completed in a lab and it being a false task

HIGH IV due to it being a controlled environment

Question 6

what did peterson and peterson find

Answer 6

participants were able to recall 90% of trigrams after 3 seconds

less trigrams were able to be recalled as the time interval was lengthened

after 18 seconds 2% of trigrams were recalled correctly

Question 7

according to peterson and peterson what is the stm duration

Answer 7

20seconds at most

Question 8

describe and outline research done by jacobs into stm capacity

Answer 8

he devised the digit span technique to asses how may items can be held in the memory

participants were presented with 4 digits and asked to recall them in the correct order

this was repeated until a participant couldn’t accurately recall

he found that on avg its 7 digits that were able to be remembered