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SHORT TERM MEMORY QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH SOLUTIONS 2024
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SHORT TERM MEMORY QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH SOLUTIONS 2024 Memory - ANSWER The persistence of learning over time through the storage and retrieval of information Encoding - ANSWER The processing of information into the memory system. For example, by extracting meaning. Storage - ANSWER The retention of encoded information over time Retrieval - ANSWER The process of getting information out of memory storage. Coding/Representation - ANSWER The idea that we represent information somehow. When you see a visual stimulus, you're representing it in a visual way. You store information away based on how you experience it. This determines how you access the information later. Sensory memory - ANSWER The immediate, very brief recordings of sensory information in the memory system. Short term/primary memory - ANSWER Activated memory that holds a few items briefly, such as the seven digits of a phone number while dialing, before the information is stored or forgotten. Long -term memory - ANSWER The relatively permanent and limitless storehouse of the memory system. Includes knowledge, skills, and experiences Atkinson & Shiffrin Model - ANSWER Information must be rehearsed in short -term memory or it will not go into long -term storage. Problem with the A&F Model - ANSWER It doesn't actually matter whether or not you are attending to the information in question. It can still get placed in your long -term memory. Subliminal information gets placed in your long -term memory. However, the bett er you attend to the information, the better you'll be able to access it later. Childhood Amnesia - ANSWER We don't remember much from earlier life. That's because these memories were formed before we had developed verbal language. It's hard to access something verbally which wasn't stored verbally in your long -term memory. Also, there's the idea that information decays with time. If you didn't store a memory in a way that you can talk about it, it's still there but you can't access it because you haven't thought about it for so long. Also, the frontal lobe hasn't finished developing at this point, and the myelin sheath is still growing. So, children aren't neurally developed enough to keep memories. People do remember feelings, however. Any incident of high emotion has a chance of making it to the long -term memory. Desktop vs. Bookshelf - ANSWER Your working memory is like your desktop. It's the stuff you're thinking about and accessing at the moment. The information you're currently working with. Your long -term memory is like a bookshelf. The information is there, b ut sometimes you have difficulty accessing it. If you search hard enough, you usually can. Decay - ANSWER When you lose memory over time. Displacement - ANSWER Memory is displaced by new information. E.g., if you're distracted and your interest is pulled to something different, it's hard to keep focusing on the first thing. Recall Test - ANSWER Write down or tell everything you remember about an incident. (Video, word list, etc. What we did in class.) Recognition - ANSWER You're given answers and you have to figure out how they relate to the question. (like multiple choice tests.) Easier than recall. Patient H.M - ANSWER Suffered damage to the hippocampus. He couldn't do a recall task. He was shown a list of words, and then later asked to do a recognition test. Even though he couldn't even remember being shown the list of words, he was just as accurate on the recognition test as a person without brain damage would have been.The benefits of buying summaries with Stuvia:
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