Lesson 3.1.1.2.1
3.1.1.2.1 Multi-store model: sensory, short-term and long-term memory Quiz: AQA Psychology, Unit 1
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The 20 questions
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Which store in the multi-store model first receives information from the environment?
- Long-term memory
- Sensory memory
- Short-term memory
- Working memory
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Which store in the multi-store model has potentially unlimited capacity and duration?
- Short-term memory
- Iconic memory
- Sensory memory
- Long-term memory
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Which researchers proposed the multi-store model of memory?
- Miller and Sperling
- Atkinson and Shiffrin
- Tulving and Thomson
- Baddeley and Hitch
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Which process transfers information from short-term memory into long-term memory?
- Retrieval
- Prolonged rehearsal
- Attention
- Decay
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Which process moves information from sensory memory into short-term memory?
- Retrieval
- Encoding
- Rehearsal
- Attention
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Which memory store holds a phone number while it is being actively repeated?
- Long-term memory
- Short-term memory
- Sensory memory
- Episodic memory
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Which memory store briefly holds raw visual information for a fraction of a second?
- Short-term memory
- Sensory memory
- Working memory
- Long-term memory
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Which memory store initially holds unattended sound from a busy room?
- Long-term memory
- Procedural memory
- Sensory memory
- Short-term memory
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Unrehearsed information vanishes after around 18 to 30 seconds from which store?
- Long-term memory
- Short-term memory
- Permanent memory
- Sensory memory
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According to Atkinson and Shiffrin, what process transfers information from short-term to long-term memory?
- Maintenance rehearsal
- Retrieval
- Selective attention
- Sensory decay
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Why is short-term memory described as a bottleneck in the multi-store model?
- Limited capacity
- Unlimited duration
- Acoustic coding
- Sensory decay
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Repeating key terms over and over to store them long-term is known as what?
- Rehearsal
- Retrieval
- Attention
- Displacement
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Which memory store is characterised by unlimited capacity and potentially lifelong duration?
- Long-term memory
- Sensory memory
- Working memory
- Short-term memory
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Memory stores in the multi-store model are distinguished by capacity, duration and what else?
- Forgetting
- Retrieval
- Coding
- Rehearsal
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What process transfers information from sensory memory into short-term memory?
- Displacement
- Rehearsal
- Retrieval
- Attention
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When short-term memory reaches maximum capacity, how is old information lost?
- Displacement
- Decay
- Retrieval failure
- Interference
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How does the original multi-store model view long-term memory?
- As short-term
- As one store
- As separate stores
- As limited capacity
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Patients with impaired short-term memory who still form long-term memories challenge which MSM claim?
- Brief sensory duration
- Single linear pathway
- Unlimited LTM capacity
- Acoustic STM coding
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Holding a shopping list in your mind while walking around a shop uses which store?
- Short-term memory
- Long-term memory
- Sensory memory
- Procedural memory
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Recalling a formula learnt yesterday during an exam relies on which memory process?
- Rehearsal
- Retrieval
- Attention
- Displacement
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