Question

Short term memory provides temporary storage for information transferred from sensory memory and information recalled from (9) ____________. (10) ________________ keeps information active in short term memory. Due to decay or interference, information that is not rehearsed is lost within about 20 seconds. The capacity of short term memory is limited to approximately (11) __________ items; however, (12) ___________ can be used to combine items into meaningful units. (13) ______________ is a short term memory system that involves active manipulation of verbal or spatial information such as mentally calculating the answer to a complex problem.

chunking         decay               echoic memory            schemas           iconic memory

implicit            explicit                        recognition                  anterograde     misinformation effect

repression        visual               sensory memory          memory           George Sperling

seven               auditory           false memories            unlimited         elaborative rehearsal

amnesia           synapse            working memory         forgetting        encoding specificity

retroactive       episodic           primacy effect             procedural       imagination inflation

proactive         semantic          recency effect             retrieval           encoding failure

cerebellum       interference     hippocampus               retrograde        short term memory

retrieval cue     long term memory       serial position effect                maintenance rehearsal

Answer 1

• Short term memory provides temporary storage for information transferred from sensory memory and information recalled from long term memory.
• Maintenence rehearsal keeps information active in short term memory. Due to decay or interference, information that is not rehearsed is lost within about 20 seconds.
• The capacity of short term memory is limited to approximately seven items; however, Chunking can be used to combine items into meaningful units.
• Working memory is a short term memory system that involves active manipulation of verbal or spatial information such as mentally calculating the answer to a complex problem.

Short memory is a part of memory system that retrieves information from the sensory memory and long term memory. This is the most active part of the memory system. Can hold memories up to a span of 20 secs, can hold memory of 7items, plus or minus two if maintained by rehearsal. Chunking combines the items into meaningful units. Working memory of the short term memory is involved in active manipulation and storage of infotmainfo.