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Capacity and encoding of memory

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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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Question 1

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Which of the following is a definition of duration?
Answer
  • 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

Question 2

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

Question 3

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Capacity and duration of LTM is unlimited
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 4

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How does STM encode?
Answer
  • Acoustic or visual
  • Semantic

Question 5

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Encoding in LTM is semantic
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 6

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

Question 7

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

Question 8

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

Question 9

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

Question 10

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

Question 11

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

Question 12

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

Question 13

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