AQA PSYCHOLOGY A LEVEL 2021 PAPER 1 MS :QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT
VERIFIED ANSWERS
1) What are the parts of the multi-store model of memory?ANSWER Sensory Register, Short Term Memory, Long
Term Memory
@#$%^&*()_
2) How is the sensory register coded?ANSWER Modality Specific
3) What is the capacity of the sensory register?ANSWER Huge capcity
4) What is the duration of the sensory register?ANSWER 1/4 second
5) How is short-term memory coded?ANSWER Acoustically
6) What is the capacity of short term memory?ANSWER 7+/-2 Items (Miller's Magic 7)
7) What is the duration of short term memory?ANSWER 18-30 seconds (Peterson and Peterson)
8) How is long term memory coded?ANSWER Semantically
9) What is the capacity of long term memory?ANSWER Unlimited
10) What is the duration of long term memory?ANSWER Forever
11) Give a limitation to the MSM?ANSWER KF = Short Term Memory was impaired but visual STM was normal
12) Give a strength to the MSM?ANSWER Glanzer + Cunitz serial position effect
13) What is the role of the central executive?ANSWER Direct information to different components and decides
where your resources go
14) What is the phonological loop?ANSWER Stores and processes verbal and auditory information
15) What are the 2 parts of the phonological loop and what do they do?ANSWER 1. Phonological Store - Hold
speech based info
2. Articulatory Control Process - Rehearse verbal information
16) What is the role of the Visuospatial Sketchpad?ANSWER Stores visual and spatial information
17) What is the role of the episodic buffer?ANSWER Integrates all the information together from the different stores
18) Give a strength to the WMM?ANSWER KF suffered a brain injury -> Struggled to process verbal/auditory
information but his visual information wasn't affected -> Shows different stores
19) Give a limitation to the WMM?ANSWER Lack of detail on CE because difficult to operationalise and measure ->
There may be more than one central component to the CE
20) What is procedural long term memory?ANSWER Skills/Actions
21) What is semantic long term memory?ANSWER Facts/Knowledge
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, 22) What is episodic memory?ANSWER Personal events
23) What are the strengths to the different types of long-term memory?ANSWER Illness impaired ability to form new
episodic and semantic memories however still able to form new procedural memories
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VERIFIED ANSWERS
1) What are the parts of the multi-store model of memory?ANSWER Sensory Register, Short Term Memory, Long
Term Memory
@#$%^&*()_
2) How is the sensory register coded?ANSWER Modality Specific
3) What is the capacity of the sensory register?ANSWER Huge capcity
4) What is the duration of the sensory register?ANSWER 1/4 second
5) How is short-term memory coded?ANSWER Acoustically
6) What is the capacity of short term memory?ANSWER 7+/-2 Items (Miller's Magic 7)
7) What is the duration of short term memory?ANSWER 18-30 seconds (Peterson and Peterson)
8) How is long term memory coded?ANSWER Semantically
9) What is the capacity of long term memory?ANSWER Unlimited
10) What is the duration of long term memory?ANSWER Forever
11) Give a limitation to the MSM?ANSWER KF = Short Term Memory was impaired but visual STM was normal
12) Give a strength to the MSM?ANSWER Glanzer + Cunitz serial position effect
13) What is the role of the central executive?ANSWER Direct information to different components and decides
where your resources go
14) What is the phonological loop?ANSWER Stores and processes verbal and auditory information
15) What are the 2 parts of the phonological loop and what do they do?ANSWER 1. Phonological Store - Hold
speech based info
2. Articulatory Control Process - Rehearse verbal information
16) What is the role of the Visuospatial Sketchpad?ANSWER Stores visual and spatial information
17) What is the role of the episodic buffer?ANSWER Integrates all the information together from the different stores
18) Give a strength to the WMM?ANSWER KF suffered a brain injury -> Struggled to process verbal/auditory
information but his visual information wasn't affected -> Shows different stores
19) Give a limitation to the WMM?ANSWER Lack of detail on CE because difficult to operationalise and measure ->
There may be more than one central component to the CE
20) What is procedural long term memory?ANSWER Skills/Actions
21) What is semantic long term memory?ANSWER Facts/Knowledge
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, 22) What is episodic memory?ANSWER Personal events
23) What are the strengths to the different types of long-term memory?ANSWER Illness impaired ability to form new
episodic and semantic memories however still able to form new procedural memories
2/7
