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Edexcel GCSE Psychology Topic 2 Memory overview quiz quiz

12questions. Pick an answer and you'll see why right away.

  1. Which three processes make up memory?

  2. What is the approximate capacity of short-term memory?

  3. Long-term memory mainly encodes information by:

  4. In the multi-store model, what moves information from the sensory register to short-term memory?

  5. Which finding supports the idea that short-term and long-term memory are separate stores?

  6. What does reconstructive memory say about how we remember?

  7. Which story did Bartlett use to study reconstructive memory?

  8. Anterograde amnesia is best described as:

  9. How did Peterson and Peterson stop participants rehearsing the trigrams?

  10. About how long did Peterson and Peterson find short-term memory lasts without rehearsal?

  11. In the reductionism-holism debate, Peterson and Peterson's study is best described as:

  12. What is chunking, and what does it affect?