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🧠Models of Memory – A-level
Psychology · A-level — practises the multi-store and working memory models, key studies and types of long-term memory
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Questions
According to Miller (1956), what is the typical capacity of short-term memory?
12 ± 3 items
4 ± 1 items
7 ± 2 items
18 ± 2 items
20s
In the multi-store model, which process transfers information from the sensory register to short-term memory?
Attention
Maintenance rehearsal
Chunking
Retrieval
20s
Knowing that Paris is the capital of France is an example of which type of long-term memory?
Episodic memory
Semantic memory
Sensory memory
Procedural memory
20s
Peterson and Peterson (1959) tested recall of trigrams. How long did they suggest STM lasts without rehearsal?
Approximately 20 minutes
Approximately 0.5 seconds
Approximately 18–30 seconds
Approximately 2 minutes
20s
Baddeley (1966) found acoustically similar words were hardest to recall immediately. What does this suggest?
STM mainly codes information acoustically
LTM mainly codes information acoustically
STM mainly codes information visually
STM mainly codes information semantically
30s
Which component did Baddeley add to the working memory model in 2000 to link the subsystems with long-term memory?
Central executive
Visuo-spatial sketchpad
Episodic buffer
Phonological loop
20s
After brain surgery, HM improved at mirror drawing but could not remember practising it. What does this suggest?
Episodic and semantic memories are the same store
Procedural memories depend on rehearsal in STM
Procedural and episodic memories are stored separately
Short-term memory is not a single unitary store
30s
Patient KF had poor STM for heard verbal material but better STM for visual material. What does this challenge in the MSM?
The idea that attention is needed for transfer
The idea that the sensory register is brief
The idea that LTM is a single unitary store
The idea that STM is a single unitary store
30s
According to the working memory model, which pair of tasks done at the same time should interfere with each other most?
Listening to a story and sketching a simple shape
Counting aloud and imagining a route on a map
Tracking a moving light and repeating a word aloud
Tracking a moving light and visualising a letter shape
30s
Lists of short words are recalled better than lists of long words. According to the WMM, the phonological loop holds about:
Four chunks of meaning regardless of length
7 ± 2 items regardless of word length
As much as can be said in about 2 seconds
As much as can be said in about 18 seconds
30s