Capacity and encoding of memory

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A2 level (Memory) Psychology Test sobre Capacity and encoding of memory, creado por eharveyhudl el 05/02/2015.
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Pregunta 1

Pregunta
Which of the following is a definition of duration?
Respuesta
  • A measure of how long a memory lasts before it is no longer available
  • A measure of how much information can be held in memory

Pregunta 2

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The capacity of STM is 5+-2 chunks
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 3

Pregunta
Capacity and duration of LTM is unlimited
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 4

Pregunta
How does STM encode?
Respuesta
  • Acoustic or visual
  • Semantic

Pregunta 5

Pregunta
Encoding in LTM is semantic
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 6

Pregunta
Who conducted research into chunking?
Respuesta
  • Bowlby
  • Ainsworth
  • Christianson and Hubinette
  • Miller

Pregunta 7

Pregunta
An real-life application of chunking is postcodes
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 8

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Baddeley found that participants had difficulty remembering acoustically similar words in STM but not LTM
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 9

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Which of these is the definition of capacity?
Respuesta
  • The way information is altered so it can be stored in memory
  • A measure of how much information can be held in memory

Pregunta 10

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Which of these is the definition of encoding?
Respuesta
  • The way information is altered so it can be stored in memory
  • Whether encoding is acoustic or semantic

Pregunta 11

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What does chunking mean?
Respuesta
  • Breaking up syllables of words into meaningful chunks
  • Grouping digits or letters into chunks

Pregunta 12

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Who conducted research into the digit span technique?
Respuesta
  • Robertson
  • Jacobs
  • Peterson

Pregunta 13

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Jacobs found that memory for letters was better than memory for digits
Respuesta
  • True
  • False
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