Capacity and encoding of memory

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A2 level Psychology (Memory) Quiz sobre Capacity and encoding of memory, criado por eharveyhudl em 05-02-2015.
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Questão 1

Questão
Which of the following is a definition of duration?
Responda
  • 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

Questão 2

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

Questão 3

Questão
Capacity and duration of LTM is unlimited
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 4

Questão
How does STM encode?
Responda
  • Acoustic or visual
  • Semantic

Questão 5

Questão
Encoding in LTM is semantic
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 6

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

Questão 7

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

Questão 8

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

Questão 9

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

Questão 10

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

Questão 11

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

Questão 12

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

Questão 13

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

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