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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