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Question 20

Immediate recall is poor for twelve unrelated letters but improves when the same letters are reorganised into three familiar abbreviations.

Explain what this result shows about STM capacity.

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2.1 Memory Questions

  1. GCSE
  2. /Psychology
  3. /2.1 Memory

40 exam-style questions on Edexcel GCSE Psychology 2.1 Memory, covering 2.1.1 Structure and process of memory, 2.1.2 Short-term and long-term memory features, 2.1.3 Retrograde and anterograde amnesia, 2.1.4 Theory of Reconstructive Memory (Bartlett, 1932), and 2.1.5 Multi-store Model of Memory (Atkinson and Shiffrin, 1968). Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.

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