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Capacity and encoding of memory
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1Which of the following is a definition of duration?
- AA measure of how long a memory lasts before it is no longer available
- BA measure of how much information can be held in memory
2The capacity of STM is 5+-2 chunks
- ATrue
- BFalse
3Capacity and duration of LTM is unlimited
- ATrue
- BFalse
4How does STM encode?
- AAcoustic or visual
- BSemantic
5Encoding in LTM is semantic
- ATrue
- BFalse
6Who conducted research into chunking?
- ABowlby
- BAinsworth
- CChristianson and Hubinette
- DMiller
7An real-life application of chunking is postcodes
- ATrue
- BFalse
8Baddeley found that participants had difficulty remembering acoustically similar words in STM but not LTM
- ATrue
- BFalse
9Which of these is the definition of capacity?
- AThe way information is altered so it can be stored in memory
- BA measure of how much information can be held in memory
10Which of these is the definition of encoding?
- AThe way information is altered so it can be stored in memory
- BWhether encoding is acoustic or semantic
11What does chunking mean?
- ABreaking up syllables of words into meaningful chunks
- BGrouping digits or letters into chunks
12Who conducted research into the digit span technique?
- ARobertson
- BJacobs
- CPeterson
13Jacobs found that memory for letters was better than memory for digits
- ATrue
- BFalse
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- A2 level Psychology (Memory) Quiz on Capacity and encoding of memory, created by eharveyhudl on 05/02/2015.
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