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Cognitive Psychology Fill In The Blanks

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In each blank, try to type in the word that is missing. If you've typed in the correct word, the blank will turn green.

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Question: DurationAnswer: How long lasts
Question: Answer: How much can be held in
Question: Answer: items of info into code, creating a 'trace'
Question: Peterson & Peterson's (1959) investigation of duration of Answer: Ps shown nonsense trigrams and asked to them after 3, 6, 9, 12, 15 or 18secs. During pause they performed an interferance task. They found when rehearsal is prevented, very little can stay in STM longer than 18secs.
Question: Bahrick et al (1975) on LTMAnswer: 392 Ps asked top recall ex-classmates (free-recall test). They were shown photos and asked to names of people shown (photo recognition test) or given names and asked to match them to a photo (name-recognition test).
Question: Jacobs (1887) studied capacity of Answer: Ps were presented with a long string of digits. He concluded STM has a limited storage capacity of 5 to 9 items. This research ecological validity due to how is was conducted.
Question: Miller's (1956) review of research into Answer: Found the capacity of STM to be 7 plus or minus 2. He suggested 'chunking' is used to combine individual or numbers into larger, more meaningful units (eg. telephone numbers, acronyms)
Question: The type of mainly used in STMAnswer: coding
Question: The type of coding used in LTMAnswer: Semantic
Question: Baddeley (1966) investigated coding in STM and Answer: Ps given four sets of words: either acoustically similar, acoustically , semantically similar or semantically dissimilar. Using independent groups, Ps were asked to recall either immediately or following a 20min task.
Question: Multi-Store Answer: Atkinson & Shiffrin's of memory: contains SM, STM and LTM
Question: Memory ModelAnswer: Baddeley & Hitch's model of memory: contains the articulatory-phonological loop, the executive and the visuo-spatial sketchpad
Question: -phonological loop.Answer: One of the 'slave ' proposed in the WMM. Holds speech-based information. Consists of the 'inner ear' and the 'inner voice'.
Question: -spatial sketchpad.Answer: One of the 'slave ' proposed in the WMM. Deals with temporary storage of visual and spatial information.
 
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