Memory

Question 1

Active Processing

Answer 1

Is where the person transforms or manipulates the material that is to be remembered.

Question 2

Capacity

Answer 2

The amount of information that can be held in the memory.

Question 3

Central Executive

Answer 3

Part of the working memory model that coordinates with the other two components (Later became three)

Question 4

Coding

Answer 4

Changing for the format of information for use in memory.

Question 5

Cognitive interview

Answer 5

An interview technique devised to improve accuracy of eye witness testimony.

Question 6

Absence of Cue’s

Answer 6

When someone fails to recall information due to a lack of a ‘cue’ or a trigger.

Question 7

Duration

Answer 7

The length of time information remains in memory.

Question 8

Episodic Buffer

Answer 8

Part of the working memory model which is a store for integrating information for the other components.

Question 9

Episodic Memory

Answer 9

A type of long term memory for information about specific events or experiences in our lives.

Question 10

Eyewitness Testimony

Answer 10

An account given by people of an event they have witnessed.

Question 11

Forgetting

Answer 11

The failure to retrieve memories.

Question 12

Leading Questions

Answer 12

Questions phrased in such a way that prompts a particular kind of answer.

Question 13

Misleading Information

Answer 13

Incorrect information given the eye witness after an event.

Question 14

Multi-Store Model

Answer 14

Explanation of memory that sees information flowing through a series of storage systems.

Question 15

Phonological Loop

Answer 15

The part of the working memory model that deals with auditory information.

Question 16

Post-Event Discussion

Answer 16

When various witnesses discuss what they saw which can lead to misleading information.

Question 17

Proactive Interference

Answer 17

Previously stored information interferes with the newer information.

Question 18

Retroactive Interference

Answer 18

Newly learnt information interferes with and impedes the recall of previously learnt information.

Question 19

Procedural Memory

Answer 19

Long-term memory for “Knowing how”

Question 20

Retrieval

Answer 20

The recall of lost memories.

Question 21

Retrieval Failure

Answer 21

Difficulties in recalling information

Question 22

Schema

Answer 22

A cognitive framework or concept that helps organise and interpret information.

Question 23

Semantic Memory

Answer 23

A type of long term memory for information that is not linked to particular contexts or events.

Question 24

Sensory Register

Answer 24

Store of sensory information that lasts no more than a few seconds.

Question 25

Visuo-spacial Sketchpad

Answer 25

The part of the Working Memory Model that deals with visual information.

Question 26

The Working Memory Model

Answer 26

The model that suggests short term memory is composed of three limited capacity slave systems which are controlled by the central executive.