Cognitive Psychology Questions
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Q. The multi-store model proposes that the short-term and long-term memory stores are separate. Which two effects are used together to support this proposal?
Which memory store has a limited capacity and very brief duration?
Q. A study into short-term memory presented participants with meaningless strings of items (e.g, numbers or letters) which they had to repeat back immediately in the correct order. The number of item in each string increased with each trial. What is the average number of items recalled correctly?
Q. Some studies find that recall of acoustically similar words from the short-term store is worse than recall if semantically similar words from the short-term store. What does this finding indicate?
Q. A study tested people’s memory using yearbook photos of their classmates from two weeks after leaving high-school up to 57 years later. It was found that people could recall faces and names well up to about 48 years later. This finding indicates that the long-term store has:
Q. Many studies investigating memory are conducting in psychology laboratories. What is an advantage of this research method?
Which control process transfers information from the short-term store to long-term store?
What is the term for repeating items of information so that they stay in memory for a while?
Which memory store holds information for a brief time?
Which memory store has a limited capacity and brief duration?
How many memory stores are there in the multi-store model?
Can the sensory register hold information from any sense?
Which memory store holds information for an unlimited time?
Which control process is involved in the transfer of information from the sensory register of the short-term store?
Which memory store does information from the environment first enter?
Which part of the multi-store model has a capacity of 7 +/- 2 bits of information?
The long-term store mostly encodes information:
highlights the positive and negative sides of emotion in tandem.
a message phrased to show we understand that our feelings belong to us and aren't caused by someone else.
to change something that has a negative connotation to something with a more positive connotation (e.g. a problem can become a concern, or a challenge can become an opportunity).