Memory 💭

Question 1

What is the capacity of LTM?

Answer 1

Unlimited

Question 2

What is the duration of STM?

Answer 2

30 seconds

Question 3

What is the duration of LTM?

Answer 3

2 mins to 100 yrs

Question 4

How is STM encoded?

Answer 4

Acoustically

Question 5

How is LTM encoded?

Answer 5

Semantically

Question 6

Capacity study for STM?

Answer 6

JACOBS

Digits and letters.
Digits easier to recall. 9.3 items

Question 7

Duration study for STM?

Answer 7

P&P

Trigrams.
90% 3 secs
2% 18 secs

Question 8

Encoding study for STM?

Answer 8

BADDELEY.

Acoustically similar & dissimilar words

Question 9

Duration study for LTM?

Answer 9

BAHRICK

Names - faces from school
Different periods of time

Question 10

Encoding study for LTM?

Answer 10

BADDELEY

Semantically similar words.

Question 11

Who came up with the multi-store memory model?

Answer 11

Atkinson & Schiffrin

Question 12

What are the 3 memory stores in the MSM?

Answer 12

Sensory, short, long

Question 13

Who came up with the working memory model?

Answer 13

Baddeley

Question 14

What are the 3 types of LTM?

Answer 14

Episodic
Semantic
Procedural

Question 15

EFF: Interferance

Answer 15

Memory disrupting ability to recall another one

Question 16

EFF: Proactive interferance

Answer 16

Past learning interferes with current learning

Question 17

EFF: Retroactive interference

Answer 17

Current learning disrupting past learning

Question 18

What is a cue?

Answer 18

Acts as a reminder as it links to what is being remembered

Question 19

What is retrieval failure?

Answer 19

Lack of cues meaning a memory cannot be retrieved.

Question 20

EWT: what is it?

Answer 20

Eye witness testimony

Evidence provided by witnesses of an event

Question 21

EWT: Leading Q

Answer 21

Suggests the desired answer and often leads to that answer being given

Question 22

EWT: Misleading information

Answer 22

Alters witness’ memories of event

Question 23

EWT: Post-event discussion

Answer 23

Conversation after crime which could alter witness’ recollection of event

Question 24

EWT: Anxiety

Answer 24

Psychological arousal

Increased heart rate & breathing rate

Question 25

EWT: What are the 4 steps of the cognitive interview? CRRECPRO

Answer 25

Context reinstatement
Report everything
Changed perspective
Reverse order

Question 26

What is the capacity of STM?

Answer 26

7+/-2