Psychology Quiz 0.0 / 5 ? PsychologyMemoryASAQA Created by: thisislilsCreated on: 25-03-15 15:47 What is capacity? The amount of information that can be stored in memory at any particular time 1 of 19 What is duration? The length of time that information can be held for 2 of 19 What is encoding? The way in which information is transferred or coded to be stored by sound or meaning 3 of 19 What is retrieval? When information stored in the memory is remembered 4 of 19 How long does information stay in our sensory memory? 2 seconds 5 of 19 What is our sensory memory capacity? Only a few items 6 of 19 What happpens if we pay attention to what's in our sensory memory? It transfers to our short term memory 7 of 19 What was the name of the study that investigated the duration of STM? Nonsense Trigrams 8 of 19 Who conducted the study into the duration of STM? Peterson & Peterson 9 of 19 What was the name of the study which investigated capacity in STM? The Digit-Span Technique 10 of 19 Who conducted the investigation into capacity into STM? Jacobs 11 of 19 Who investigated in STM about The Magic Number? Miller 12 of 19 What is the magic number? 7+/-2 13 of 19 Who investigated encoding in STM? Baddeley 14 of 19 What did the investigaton into encoding show about STM? That it encodes acoustically 15 of 19 What did the investigaton into encoding show about LTM? That it encodes semantically 16 of 19 What is the capacity of LTM? It's unlimited 17 of 19 What is the duration of LTM? A lifetime 18 of 19 Who investigated the duration of LTM? Bahrick et al 19 of 19
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