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Psychology - Memory

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Which memory store has an unlimited capacity?   show
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show Sensory Store  
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show Short Term Memory  
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Which memory store has a duration of half a second?   show
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show Short Term Memory  
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show Long Term Memory  
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show Sensory Store  
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Which memory store encodes information acoustically?   show
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show Long Term Memory  
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What are the five stages of information processing?   show
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What are the five types of encoding?   show
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show Information that is translated into the meaning of words  
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show Information that is translated into sound  
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What is visual encoding?   show
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What is tactile encoding?   show
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show Information that is translated into what things smell like  
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What are the three types of recall?   show
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show This is when you recall information without any help/cues.  
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What is cued recall?   show
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What is recognition recall?   show
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show Episodic, Procedural and Semantic  
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What is episodic memory?   show
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show Knowledge of how to do things, muscle memory  
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What is semantic memory?   show
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What is serial position effect?   show
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show Refers to what has happened most recently – the words that appear towards the end of a list will have been heard most recently and will still be in the short-term memory.  
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show Refers to what happens first – words that appear first in a list are more likely to be recalled. This is because they have been rehearsed and have become long-term memories.  
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What was the aim of Murdocks study?   show
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How many participants were in Murdocks study?   show
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show Higher recall was found for the first few words in a list (primacy effect) and the last few words (recency effect) more than those in the middle of the list.  
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show These results demonstrate a serial position effect – the position of a word determines the likelihood of its recall. Recency effect is strongest.  
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What was the aim of Bartlett's War of the Ghost study?   show
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show Bartlett found that participants remembered different parts of the story and that they interpreted the story within their own frames of reference (social and cultural expectations), changing the facts to make them fit.  
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show We don’t remember details, we remember fragments and use our knowledge of social situations to reconstruct memory. Individuals remembered the meaning and tried to sketch out the story using invented details.  
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show The story was shortened, mainly by omissions. The phrases used were changed to language and concepts from the participant’s own culture. For example, using ‘boats’ instead of ‘canoe’.  
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What three factors affect memory?   show
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show Previously learnt information interferes with the new information you are trying to store.  
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show A new memory interferes with a new one.  
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show Context can act as a cue to recall information thus enhancing the accuracy of memory.  
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Godden and Baddeley's study of context used how many participants?   show
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show 4  
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show Dry-Dry (beach-beach)  
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In Loftus and Pickrell's 'lost in the mall' study what was the aim?   show
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In Loftus and Pickrell's 'lost in the mall' study what was the conclusion?   show
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In Loftus and Pickrell's 'lost in the mall' study how many stories were the children told?   show
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In Loftus and Pickrell's 'lost in the mall' study how many participants were there?   show
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show 19  
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show 6 (25%)  
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show It is supported by research.  
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What is a weakness of the Multi-Store Model of memory?   show
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show Refers to the format in which information is stored in the various memory stores.  
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show The process in which electrochemical information is held, ready to be used at a later date  
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Define retrieval.   show
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show Is a measure of how much; the amount of information that can be held in a memory store.  
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show Is how long something lasts; the length of time information can be held in the memory store.  
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