Capacity and encoding of memory

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A2 level Psychology (Memory) Quiz am Capacity and encoding of memory, erstellt von eharveyhudl am 05/02/2015.
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Zusammenfassung der Ressource

Frage 1

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Which of the following is a definition of duration?
Antworten
  • 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

Frage 2

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

Frage 3

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Capacity and duration of LTM is unlimited
Antworten
  • True
  • False

Frage 4

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How does STM encode?
Antworten
  • Acoustic or visual
  • Semantic

Frage 5

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Encoding in LTM is semantic
Antworten
  • True
  • False

Frage 6

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

Frage 7

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

Frage 8

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

Frage 9

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

Frage 10

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

Frage 11

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

Frage 12

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

Frage 13

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