Memory Psychology Study Guide Questions with Correct Answers
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Memory Psychology Study Guide Questions with Correct Answers
What is the max duration of sensory memory? - Answer- Short: vision is 1 second, hearing is 3 seconds.
Is maintenance possible in sensory memory? - Answer- No.
What is the task of short term memory? - Answer- Consciousness: info...
Memory Psychology Study Guide
Questions with Correct Answers
What is the max duration of sensory memory? - Answer- Short: vision is 1 second,
hearing is 3 seconds.
Is maintenance possible in sensory memory? - Answer- No.
What is the task of short term memory? - Answer- Consciousness: info can be held and
manipulated.
Enters STM either from SMS by paying attention or from LTM, by using a retrieval
strategy.
What is the code of STM? - Answer- Verbal
What is the capacity of sort term memory? - Answer- Small, but can remember more
when we use chunking.
What is the max duration of short term memory? - Answer- Holds what we are thinking
about right now, for 30 sec.
Is retrieval needed for short term memory? - Answer- No.
What is the maintenance for STM? - Answer- Rehearse info to hold it in STM. If
distracted, lose the info.
Long Term Memory - Answer- Passive, unlimited storage, lasts for lifetime.
What are the types of long term memory? - Answer- Implicit Memory and Explicit or
Declarative Memory.
What are types of implicit memory? - Answer- Procedural Memory, Classical
Conditioning, Habituation, Priming.
What are types of explicit memory? - Answer- Episodic Memory and Semantic Memory.
Implicit memory - Answer- Memories that we don't deliberately remember or reflect on
consciously.
Does implicit memory require conscious effort? - Answer- No.
, Procedural memory - Answer- Involves sequence of actions to carry out a
procedure/action, includes motor skills and habits.
Procedural memory _______ with age. - Answer- Declines
Priming - Answer- Can more easily identify something if we have previously
encountered something that is similar.
Priming _____ with age. - Answer- Declines little
Explicit memory - Answer- Memories that we recall Intentionally and of which we have
conscious awareness, declarative.
Semantic memory - Answer- Holds general knowledge and facts about the world
independent of when it was learned.
Episodic memory - Answer- Awareness of past experience and the order/time/place in
which experiences occurred, highly personal.
Encoding - Answer- Process of getting information into our memory banks.
Storage - Answer- Process of keeping information in memory.
Retrieval - Answer- reactivation of experiences from our memory stores.
Procedural Memory - Answer- Memory for how we do things.
Three concepts in the Modal Model - Answer- Sensory memory, short term memory,
and long term memory.
Modal Model - Answer- Assumes that the process of moving info from the sensory store
to the short term and then long term memory takes place in discrete stages.
Depth of Processing Model - Answer- Processing can range from superficial to deep,
deeper processing encourages better memory.
Craik and Lockhart argued... - Answer- The Modal Model was too simplistic.
Transfer of Learning Model - Answer- Opposite of Depth of Processing Model, believed
in rhyme coding.
Mnemonics - Answer- Learning aid, strategy, or device that enhances recall.
Chunking - Answer- Organizing info into meaningful groupings, allowing extend of short-
term memory.
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