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- 1. Multiple Choice
The Multistore Model of Memory was developed by...
Atkinson and Shiffrin
Craik and Lockhart
Baddeley and Hitch
Tulving
- 2. Multiple Choice
The Multistore Model comprises of three
structural elements
control processes
- 3. Multiple Choice
Information is detected from the environment and stored in the....
sensory register
short term memory
rehearsal loop
coding buffer
- 4. Multiple Choice
Which control process is necessary for information to transfer from sensory register to short term memory
attention
maintenance rehearsal
elaborative rehearsal
iconic coding
- 5. Multiple Choice
The sensory register i made up of how many sensory stores?
two
three
four
five
- 6. Multiple Choice
The echoic store can hold information for longer than the iconic store
true
false
- 7. Multiple Choice
Sperling's study demonstrated that the capacity of the sensory register is surprisingly large but the duration is severely limited
true
false
- 8. Multiple Choice
The duration of the iconic part of the sensory register is around..
5-10 seconds
2-3 seconds
1-2 seconds
0.25-0.5 seconds
- 9. Multiple Choice
The duration of the echoic part of sensory memory is about
0.25-0.5 seconds
2-3 seconds
5-9 seconds
18-30 seconds
- 10. Multiple Choice
Coding in sensory memory is...
involuntary
voluntary
- 11. Multiple Choice
Information is sensory memory is stored in
it's original/raw format
acoustic code
semantic code
iconic code
- 12. Multiple Choice
The haptic store refers to the part of sensory memory that has to do with...
sound
taste
smell
touch
- 13. Multiple Choice
Sperling's participants viewed a grid containing how many letters?
9
12
16
20
- 14. Multiple Choice
Sperling's participants saw the grid flashed in front of them for just...
0.05 seconds
0.5 seconds
1 second
5 seconds
- 15. Multiple Choice
When Sperling's participants completed a partial recall task where they had to recall just one row in the grid their performance was...
very poor
surprisingly high
- 16. Multiple Choice
When Sperling's participants completed a recall task where they had to recall the whole grid their performance was...
very poor
surprisingly good
- 17. Multiple Choice
According to this model, coding in the short term memory tends to be primarily....
visual
acoustic
semantic
associative
- 18. Multiple Choice
The duration of short term memory is thought to be approx...
2-3 seconds
18-30 seconds
2-3 minutes
10-15 minutes
- 19. Multiple Choice
Miller believed the capacity of short term memory to be...
7 items (+/-2)
5 items (+/-2)
9 items (+/-2)
4 items (+/-2)
- 20. Multiple Choice
More recent work by Cowan has suggested the capacity of STM is more like...
4 items
10 items
6 items
3 items
- 21. Multiple Choice
The function of maintenance rehearsal is...
to keep information in STM longer than the usual duration of 18-30 seconds
to transfer information to the long term memory
to transfer information from the sensory register
to ensure irrelevant information is displaced
- 22. Multiple Choice
Which type of rehearsal is thought to facilitate the transfer of information to LTM but also requires information to flow back from LTM into STM...
elaborative rehearsal
associative rehearsal
extended rehearsal
semantic rehearsal
- 23. Multiple Choice
One important distinction between STM and LTM, is that in LTM coding is primarily...
semantic as opposed to acoustic
acoustic as opposed to semantic
semantic as opposed to visual
visual as opposed to acoustic
- 24. Multiple Choice
The capacity of LTM is thought to be...
5-9 items
relatively large
potentially unlimited
- 25. Multiple Choice
The duration of LTM is thought to be...
0.5 seconds
18-30 seconds
15-20 minutes
an entire lifetime
- 26. Multiple Choice
A study that support the distinction between STM and LTM in terms of differences in coding...
Sperling
Baddeley
Bahrick
Peterson and Peterson
- 27. Multiple Choice
A study about the duration of LTM
Baddeley
Bahrick
Peterson and Peterson
Glanzer and Cunitz
- 28. Multiple Choice
A study that supports that STM is not a unitary store....
KF (Warrington and Shallice)
Baddeley
Bahrick
Glanzer and Cunitz
- 29. Multiple Choice
A study that supports that LTM is not a unitary store....
HM (Milner)
KF (Warrington and Shallice)
Glanzer and Cunitz
Bahrick
- 30. Multiple Choice
A study that supports the idea that there are separate memory stores
Glanzer and Cunitz
Bahrick
Sperling
Peterson and Peterson
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