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The ability to recall events from our lives - Answer What is the Episodic Memory? A visual representation of memory. It is a structural model in which STM and LTM are unitary stores. Information flows in a linear fashion through each store. Each store has a different capacity, information i...

Coding, Capacity and Duration of Memory - Answer AO1 Researching into Coding: Baddeley Research into capacity: Miller and Jacobs Research into Duration: Peterson and Peterson + Bahrick AO3 @Coding- words lists have no personal significance- artificial stimulus @Capacity- Miller may have ov...

Interference - Answer Refers to when the material within the memory stores compete with each other and affect each other and similarly related memories may overwrite each other, meaning some information may be lost. Interference can be retroactive or proactive. Retroactive Interference - An...

Multi-store model of memory strengths - Answer Pioneering, distinguished separate entities Research support from HM and KF to support distinct entities Research support from Baddeley encoding Multi-store model of memory weaknesses - Answer Computer model, reductionist Oversimplifies ...

Who developed the Multi-Store Model? - Answer Atkinson and Shiffrin (1968) What are the components of the MSM? - Answer - Sensory register - Short-term memory - Long-term memory What is the capacity, duration, and coding of the sensory register? - Answer - Capacity is large - Duration...

Free recall - Answer Learning procedure in which material that has been learned may be repeated in any order. Recognition recall - Answer Recall from a list presented, individuals pick out which they can remember. Cued recall - Answer Reproducing information from memory by making use of ...

Define Encoding - Answer the process of changing sensory input into a memory trace for storage Define Storage - Answer The process of maintaining a record of the memory trace so it can be retrieved Define Retrieval - Answer The process of accessing and recovering stored information so it...

Coding - Answer The format in which information is stored in the various memory stores Capacity - Answer The amount of information that can be held in a memory store Duration - Answer The length of time information can be held in memory Short term memory - Answer The limited-capacit...

Study of capacity of STM - Answer Miller (Immediate Digit Span Test) Jacobs Support Study of duration of STM - Answer Peterson and Peterson (Trigrams) 24 students given a consonant syllable and a three digit number ie. THX 512. They were asked to recall the consonant syllable after a reten...

Baddeley (1966) - Answer CODING IN STM & LTM Acoustically similar/dissimilar words Semantically similar/dissimilar words Immediate recall worse for acoustically similar STM is acoustic Recall after 20 mins worse with semantically similar words LTM is semantic Jacobs (1887) - Answer ...

Multi Store Model: Atkinson and Shiffrin - Answer Proposed that memory consisted of three stores in a linear way: sensory register: stimulus from environment pass into the SR and has a infinite capacity, duration is less than half a second and coded acoustically or visually, STM and LTM --Senso...