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6. What was the name of the study which investigated capacity in STM?

  • Nonsense Trigrams
  • The Digit-Span Technique
  • The Magic Number

7. What is the duration of LTM?

  • A lifetime
  • 10 years
  • 50 years

8. Who conducted the study into the duration of STM?

  • Baddeley
  • Peterson & Peterson
  • Jacobs
  • Miller

9. What did the investigaton into encoding show about STM?

  • That it encodes acoustically
  • That it encodes semanticaly
  • That is doesn't encode at all

10. What is capacity?

  • The way in which information is transferred or coded to be stored by sound or meaning
  • The amount of information that can be stored in memory at any particular time
  • The length of time that information can be held for

11. What is retrieval?

  • The way in which information is transferred to be store by sound or meaning
  • When information stored in the memory is remembered
  • When encoded information is stored in the memory until needed

12. What is encoding?

  • The length of time that information can be held for
  • The way in which information is transferred or coded to be stored by sound or meaning
  • The amount of information that can be stored in memory at any particular time

13. What happpens if we pay attention to what's in our sensory memory?

  • It transfers to our short term memory
  • We forget it
  • It transfers to our long term memory

14. Who conducted the investigation into capacity into STM?

  • Peterson & Peterson
  • Miller
  • Jacobs
  • Baddeley

15. Who investigated in STM about The Magic Number?

  • Jacobs
  • Peterson & Peterson
  • Miller
  • Baddeley

16. How long does information stay in our sensory memory?

  • 2 seconds
  • 3 seconds
  • 4 seconds

17. What is duration?

  • The length of time that information can be held for
  • The amount of information that can be stored in memory at any particular time
  • The way in which information is transferred or coded to be stored by sound or meaning

18. Who investigated the duration of LTM?

  • Miller
  • Bahrick et al
  • Peterson & Peterson

19. What was the name of the study that investigated the duration of STM?

  • The Magic Number
  • Nonsense Trigrams
  • The Digit-Span Technique