Worksheet 1

Identify the Key terms: Write the full term on the space provided.

1. The operation we perform on sensory information in the brain. ______________________

2. This refers to the sensory information we receive from our environment.

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3. The retention of information in our memory system. _________________________________

4. The turning of sensory information into a form that can be used and stored by the brain.

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5. The process of storing sound in our memory system. ______________________________

6. The process of storing the meaning of information in our memory system rather than the sound

of a word, we store the definition/meaning of that word. ______________________________

7. This refers to the information we recall, or behavior response. ___________________________

8. The recalled stored memories. ____________________________________

A. Retrieval
B. Output
C. Semantic encoding
D. Visual encoding
E. Acoustic encoding
F. Encoding
G. Storage
H. Input processing

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 Worksheet 2

Fill in the process of Multi-Store Model of Memory. (11 marks)

Explain the diagram of Multi-Store Model of Memory. (4 marks)

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 Worksheet 3

Summarize the features of the short-term and long-term memory

Capacity Duration Encoding Forgetting

Short-term
memory

Long-term
memory

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 Worksheet 4

Match Column A with Column B

Column A

1. The organization of items into familiar or manageable units

2. The fading away of a memory

3. Remembering new information by relating it to information already well know

4. The process if memory in which the brain translates incoming information into
visual, acoustic, or semantic codes

5. Memory of a specific event

6. Learning to use a computer is an example of this kind of memory

7. The form of forgetting in which a person cannot remember events from his or
her childhood

8. The stage of memory that consists of information to be remembered more than

just briefly

9. Rehearsing a play by repeating lines over and over again is an example of this

10. Creating a poem to remember another person's name (improve one's memory)
is an example of this

11. The tendency to recall the first items in a series

12. Bringing something back to mind is the memory task known as

13. The tendency to recall the last item in a series

14. Identifying objects that have been encountered before is the memory task
known as

15. Forgetting disturbing memories by pushing them out of one's consciousness

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 16. The memory process that involves locating stored information and returning it to
conscious thought

17. General knowledge that people remember

18. The stage of memory that consists of the immediate, initial recording of information has
entered through a person's senses

19. The stage of memory that id also called working memory

20. Memories that are retrieved because the mood in which they were originally
encoded is recreated

21. The process of memory that involves the maintenance of encoded information
over a period of time

Column B

_______A. storage ________L. mnemonic devices

________B. state-dependent ________M. maintenance rehearsal

memories
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________C. short term memory
________ O. infantile amnesia
________D. sensory
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________E. semantic
________ Q. episodic
________F. retrieval
________ R. encoding
________G. repression
________ S. elaborate rehearsal
________H. recognition
________ T. decay
________I. recency effect
________ U. chunking
________J. recall

________K. primacy effect

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 Worksheet 5

Define the following terms:

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Schema

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Omission

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Transformation

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Rationalization

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Unit Test

Name: _______________________________Date: ______________Year

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A. Fill in the gaps in the following paragraph using the terms given
below: (5marks)

Information is ________________ which is the early part of the

process and then it is ______________, such as in short-term and
long-term memory. When a memory is needed, there is
___________________ and without that there would be forgetting.
The _____________________ of a store is its size and the duration is
how long memory lasts in that store. Finally, there is focus on the

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 ______________________________ which is in the form in which
the information is stored.

Terms: mode of representation, capacity; stored; duration;

encoded; retrieval

B. Identify as to which store the following questions relate to. (Sensory;

STM.LTM)
(4 marks)

1. Which of the three stores has an unlimited capacity?

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2. Which of the three stores is modality specific?
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3. Which of the three stores lasts up to about 30 seconds?
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4. Which of the three stores uses a mainly semantic mode?
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C. Decide whether the following “memories” are episodic or semantic.

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1. Recall of my first visit to a new dentist.

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2. Recall of the King of England at the time of Oliver Cromwell.
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3. Recall of the French word for “house”. _________________
4. Recall of what I did yesterday afternoon. _________________
5. Recall of how to form the present tense in Latin of a verb ending
with “are”. ___________

D. Describe the working memory model of memory. (6 marks)

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E. What is reconstructive memory? (3 marks)

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F. Assess one theory of memory. (7 marks)

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G. Differentiate reductionism and holism ( 4 marks)

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