A museum guide asks visitors to remember a 15-digit entry code while walking to a locker. Most visitors repeat the code aloud, but several lose it after bei...

Assessment: Psychology 9218 | Paper 2 Mock 01 | Social context and behaviour Subject: Psychology - 9218

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A museum guide asks visitors to remember a 15-digit entry code while walking to a locker. Most visitors repeat the code aloud, but several lose it after being asked an unrelated question.

(a) Name the memory store most likely being used to hold the code. [1]
(b) Explain why the unrelated question may affect the visitors' ability to recall the code. [2]

Answer Details

(a) Short-term memory / STM [1] (b) The code has limited capacity / can hold only a small amount of information [1]. The unrelated question distracts or replaces information in STM, so the code is lost / cannot be recalled accurately [1].

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