Yr 11 Memory and Cognition

Question 1

What happens to the information in the short term memory if the information isn’t rehearsed?

Accepted Answer

Information is forgotten

Question 2

How many items can an adult store in their short term memory?

Accepted Answer

5-9

Question 3

How long are visual images in their raw form stored for?

Accepted Answer

1/3 of a second

Question 4

‘ Where was the last olympic games held?’ is this and example of

Accepted Answer

recall

Question 5

What does echoic memory help us to understand?

Accepted Answer

The ability to communicate, Languages

Question 6

How long is information stored in the sensory memory for?

Accepted Answer

200 - 500 milliseconds

Question 7

Where does the retrieved information come from?

Accepted Answer

All Memory

Question 8

What is short terms capacity?

Accepted Answer

7 +/- 2

Question 9

What are the three ways to retrieve information

Accepted Answer

Recognition, Recall, Relearn

Question 10

What is the function of long term memory?

Accepted Answer

Storage

Question 11

‘The last olympic games was in Rio De Janeiro?’ is this an example of

Accepted Answer

relearn

Question 12

Which of these is a storage system?

Accepted Answer

Sensory memory

Question 13

Where are the memories retrieved during the retrieval process?

Accepted Answer

All memory

Question 14

Why does our memory need to encode?

Accepted Answer

To translate memories from sensory to short and long term

Question 15

What happens if you don't encode memories?

Accepted Answer

you lose access to them

Question 16

‘Was the last olympic games held in Rio De Janeiro?’ is this an example of

Accepted Answer

recognition

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