Memory

Question 1

What types of encoding is used in STM?

Answer 1

Acoustic

Visually

Question 2

What types of encoding is used for LTM?

Answer 2

Semantic

Question 3

What is the meaning of acoustic encoding?

Answer 3

Encoding through hearing it

Question 4

What is visual encoding?

Answer 4

Encoding though site

Question 5

What is semantic encoding

Answer 5

Encoding through meaning

Question 6

What types of retrieval are there?

Answer 6

Recognition,
Cued recall,
Free recall

Question 7

What is encoding?

Answer 7

The information must be translated into a form so that is can be held in your brain.

Question 8

What is storage?

Answer 8

The information is kept in your brain for a period of time - possibly a lifetime.

Question 9

What is retrieval?

Answer 9

The process of being able to access information that has been stored in your brain and being able to use it.

Question 10

How could you store a film?

Answer 10

Visually

Question 11

How could you store a song?

Answer 11

Acoustically

Question 12

How could you store using a fraction?

Answer 12

Semantically

Question 13

How could you store your cat’s fur?

Answer 13

Tactile - touch

Question 14

How could you store fish and chips?

Answer 14

Taste and olfactory

Question 15

What types of things would you remember in your LTM?

Answer 15

Names, personality’s of others, passwords

Question 16

What types of things would you remember in your STM?

Answer 16

Conversations, school work, what you had for lunch

Question 17

What is free recall?

Answer 17

Retrieval without cues.

Question 18

Recognition?

Answer 18

E.G - seeing someone and being able to identify who they are.

Question 19

What is cued recall?

Answer 19

You try and remember a piece of information and someone gives you a clue or a cue.

Question 20

What is procedural memory?

Answer 20

A long-term memory store for our knowledge of how to do things.

Question 21

What is episodic memory?

Answer 21

A long-term memory store for personal events.

Question 22

Which memory is unconscious?

Answer 22

Procedural memory.

Question 23

What memory is conscious?

Answer 23

Episodic,

Semantic

Question 24

What is the duration of the sensory register?

Answer 24

About half a second

Question 25

What coding is in the sensory register?

Answer 25

It is raw unprocessed information?

Question 26

What is the capacity for the sensory register?

Answer 26

High capacity?

Question 27

What is the coding for STM?

Answer 27

Mainly acoustic

Question 28

What is the duration for STM?

Answer 28

About 30 seconds

Question 29

What is the capacity of STM?

Answer 29

Between 5 and 9 pieces of information

Question 30

What is the coding for LTM?

Answer 30

Mainly semantic

Question 31

What is the duration of LTM?

Answer 31

Up to a lifetime

Question 32

What is the capacity of LTM?

Answer 32

Unlimited

Question 33

What is the recency effect?

Answer 33

The words (example) that your hear at the end, so the most the recent thing you hear.

Question 34

What is the primary effect?

Answer 34

The words (example) you hear first.

Question 35

Why do people remember the last thing that is said?

Answer 35

It stays in their STM till they need to recall it.

Question 36

Why do people remember the first words that are said to them?

Answer 36

They have more time to go over them and put them into their LTM.

Question 37

Why is memory inaccurate?

Answer 37

People changed what they read, and when reconstructed it they missed out bits.

Question 38

What are some social and cultural influences?

Answer 38

How they have grown up and there culture.

Question 39

What are some social and cultural influences?

Answer 39

(Boat instead of canoe, fishing instead of hunting seals.

Question 40

What is effort after meaning?

Answer 40

The participants putting effort in to fill in the gaps when recalling to make the story to make sense.